Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
One Health: Connecting Humans, Animals and the Environment
University of Basel
This course explored the One Health concept in theory and practice. It demonstrated how this concept not only improves human and animal health but also allows considerable financial savings and contributes to a better environment.
6 weeks, 5 hours per week
Jakob Zinsstag
Professor of Epidemiology
University of Basel
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Summarise the many advantages of a closer cooperation between human and animal health.
- Describe the fundamental principles of cross-sector human and animal health economics.
- Explain how the transmission of diseases from livestock to human via food can be prevented.
- Discuss the environmental policy and law that supports food safety.
- Debate how food safety can benefit from One Health.
- Develop ideas for transdisciplinary processes that can solve an everyday One Health problem.
- Reflect on the problems that arise from poor communication between human doctors and veterinarians.
- Investigate social-ecological perspectives for the improvement of human and animal well-being.
- Identify the rabies problem in the World and the potential for its elimination in Africa.
- Investigate through practical case studies the collection of vaccination coverage data.
- Calculate matrices to describe growth rates of populations.
- Interpret tables of vaccination coverage data.
- Calculate transmission dynamics of diseases between humans and animals
Syllabus
- Advantages of a closer cooperation between human and animal health
- Transdisciplinary processes that can solve an everyday One Health problem
- Shortfalls resulting from poor communication between human doctors and veterinarians
- Social-ecological perspectives for the improvement of human and animal well-being
- Fundamental principles of cross-sector human and animal health economics
- Environmental policy and law that supports food safety
- Prevention of diseases from livestock to human via food
- Matrix calculations to describe growth rates of populations
- Principles of disease transmission dynamics between humans and animals
- Collection of vaccination coverage data
- Interpretation of vaccination coverage data
- The rabies problem in the World and the potential for its elimination in Africa
Issued on 22nd February 2017
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