One Health Surveillance Codex: promoting the adoption of One Health solutions within and across European countries

The Relationship Between the Scope of Essential Health Benefits and Statutory Financing: An International Comparison Across Eight European Countries

Background Both rising healthcare costs and the global financial crisis have fueled a search for policy tools in order to avoid unsustainable future financing of essential health benefits. The scope of essential health benefits (the range of services covered) and depth of coverage (the proportion of costs of the covered benefits that is covered publicly) are corresponding variables in determini...

Prevalence of hepatitis A across various countries in the Middle East, African and Eastern European countries

Towards one Africa, one health: the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance One Health focus on infectious diseases.

© 2012. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. The genesis of the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS) is rooted in the realisation that infectious diseases are and will continue to be a formidable challenge to human welfare and economic development in Africa over the horizon of 30 years fr...

A "One Health" surveillance and control of brucellosis in developing countries: moving away from improvisation.

Although a "One Health" approach has been successfully implemented for emerging infectious zoonotic diseases with pandemic potential, we still lack a conceptual framework to address enzootic diseases like brucellosis. The vast majority of published brucellosis studies in the developing world rely solely on serology. An important shortcoming of brucellosis serology is the impossibility to infer ...

One world--one health.

There is, therefore, a need for greater integration and coordination between medical researchers and practitioners, and researchers and practitioners involved in both domestic and wild animal health. This integration has been defined as the ‘One Health’ approach and is an approach that has taken hold in many developing countries where infectious diseases remain prevalent, but less so in develop...