What is meant by one health concept? Discuss the remedial measures for better health management.(200 Words)
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KEY POINTS
The One Health concept
· The World Organization of Animal Health, commonly known as OIE (an abbreviation of its French title), summarises the One Health concept as human health and animal health are interdependent and bound to the health of the ecosystems in which they exist.
· Climate change, deforestation and intensive farming further disrupt environment characteristics, while increased trade and travel result in closer and more frequent interaction, thus increasing the possibility of transmission of diseases.
· According to the OIE, 60% of existing human infectious diseases are zoonotic i.e. they are transmitted from animals to humans; 75% of emerging infectious human diseases have an animal origin.
Remedial measures needed
· This builds a strong case for strengthening veterinary institutions and services.
· The most effective and economical approach is to control zoonotic pathogens at their animal source.
· Close collaboration at local, regional and global levels among veterinary, health and environmental governance, greater investment in animal health infrastructure.
· Strict health surveillance to incorporate domestic animals, livestock and poultry too. Humans require a regular diet of animal protein. Thus, loss of food animals on account of poor health or disease too becomes a public health issue.
· The size of India’s human and animal populations is almost the same; 121 crore people (2011 Census) and 125.5 crore livestock and poultry.
· Need for Private sector presence in veterinary services is close to livestock.
· A veterinarian is always on a house call on account of the logistic challenge of transporting livestock to the hospital, unless they are domestic pets. So better transport systems are needed.
· Need to reach every livestock farmer, not only for disease treatment but for prevention and surveillance to minimise the threat to human health.
· Early detection at animal source can prevent disease transmission to humans and introduction of pathogens into the food chain.
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