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Climate change and One Health

Zinsstag, Jakob and Crump, Lisa and Schelling, Esther and Hattendorf, Jan and Maidane, Yahya Osman and Ali, Kadra Osman and Muhummed, Abdifatah and Umer, Abdurezak Adem and Aliyi, Ferzua and Nooh, Faisal and Abdikadir, Mohammed Ibrahim and Ali, Seid Mohammed and Hartinger, Stella and Mäusezahl, Daniel and de White, Monica Berger Gonzalez and Cordon-Rosales, Celia and Castillo, Danilo Alvarez and McCracken, John and Abakar, Fayiz and Cercamondi, Colin and Emmenegger, Sandro and Maier, Edith and Karanja, Simon and Bolon, Isabelle and de Castañeda, Rafael Ruiz and Bonfoh, Bassirou and Tschopp, Rea and Probst-Hensch, Nicole and Cissé, Guéladio. (2018) Climate change and One Health. FEMS microbiology letters, 365 (11). fny085.

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Abstract

The journal The Lancet recently published a countdown on health and climate change. Attention was focused solely on humans. However, animals, including wildlife, livestock and pets, may also be impacted by climate change. Complementary to the high relevance of awareness rising for protecting humans against climate change, here we present a One Health approach, which aims at the simultaneous protection of humans, animals and the environment from climate change impacts (climate change adaptation). We postulate that integrated approaches save human and animal lives and reduce costs when compared to public and animal health sectors working separately. A One Health approach to climate change adaptation may significantly contribute to food security with emphasis on animal source foods, extensive livestock systems, particularly ruminant livestock, environmental sanitation, and steps towards regional and global integrated syndromic surveillance and response systems. The cost of outbreaks of emerging vector-borne zoonotic pathogens may be much lower if they are detected early in the vector or in livestock rather than later in humans. Therefore, integrated community-based surveillance of zoonoses is a promising avenue to reduce health effects of climate change.
Faculties and Departments:09 Associated Institutions > Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) > Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH) > Chronic Disease Epidemiology > Exposome Science (Probst-Hensch)
03 Faculty of Medicine > Departement Public Health > Sozial- und Präventivmedizin > Exposome Science (Probst-Hensch)
09 Associated Institutions > Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH)
09 Associated Institutions > Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) > Former Units within Swiss TPH > Health Impact Assessment (Utzinger)
09 Associated Institutions > Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) > Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH) > Household Economics and Health Systems Research > Household Health Systems (Mäusezahl)
09 Associated Institutions > Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) > Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH) > Human and Animal Health > One Health (Zinsstag)
UniBasel Contributors:Zinsstag, Jakob Z and Crump, Lisa and Schelling, Esther and Hattendorf, Jan and Probst-Hensch, Nicole and Probst-Hensch, Nicole and Cissé, Guéladio and Tschopp, Rea and Bonfoh, Bassirou and Hartinger, Stella and Mäusezahl, Daniel and Hartinger, Stella
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Blackwell
ISSN:0378-1097
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
Language:English
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Last Modified:14 Sep 2018 14:19
Deposited On:04 Jul 2018 08:56

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