"One Medicine" for Animal and Human Health

"One Medicine" for Animal and Human Health

2270 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 10, No. 12, December 2004 tapped into the universal wish for harmony and peace. Well ahead of his time, he invited to his kingdoms not only leading human figures and innocent children but also a consortium of animals whose presence he found indispensable. Domesticated animals, part of his life as a farmer, appeared in realistic detail, ...

Human-Animal Health Interactions: The Role of One Health.

The One Health initiative is an old concept that has been reinvented and prioritized for the 21st century. The underlying principle of the initiative is that physicians and veterinarians should work collaboratively for optimal global human and animal health. Such collaboration crosses medical, scientific, and sociopolitical subdisciplines, and thus creates more efficient and productive outcomes...

Veterinary Medicine: Influencing Animal and Human Medicine

One world, one health, one medicine.

The concept of "One Medicine" embodies the view that human and veterinary medicine are dependent on an overlapping collection of biological characteristics, technologies and research discoveries. The phrase "One Medicine" is credited to Dr. Calvin Schwabe (1927–2006) , a veterinary epidemiologist and parasitologist in his textbook "Veterinary Medicine and Human Health". 1 Scientific advances ha...

One Health: Addressing Global Challenges at the Nexus of Human, Animal, and Environmental Health

1 Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&MUniversity, College Station, Texas, United States of America,2 Departmentof Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&MHealth Science Center, Bryan, Texas, United States of America,3 Norman BorlaugCenter, Texas A&MUniversity, College Station, Texas, United States of America,4 Comparative ...