Course: One Health: Connecting Humans, Animals and the Environment

During this week you became acquainted with different One Health case studies and learned how One Health works in practice. You deepened your understanding about rabies and applied what you …

It is not only important that scientists, stakeholders and different organisations collaborate. It is equally essential to seek an interdisciplinary approach. With different disciplines involved, you will become more effective …

This week you learned about quantitative methods of One Health and discovered manyfold interfaces between humans and animals. You gained insights by exploring the benefits that are gained when human …

Risk-based approaches to food safety have the advantage of shifting policy making from spontaneous reactions when confronted with chaotic and unclean open markets to an evidence-based approach. Structured analysis shows …

When talking about food safety, informal markets play a major role. These often unlicensed markets escape effective health and safety regulations. Because consequences of hazards do not necessarily cause immediate …

Given the high levels of contamination in milk that is sold in informal markets and poor hygienic practices along the chain from farm to retail shops, boiling of milk before …

Unsafe food causes many acute and lifelong diseases, ranging from diarrhoeal diseases to various forms of cancer. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that foodborne and waterborne diarrhoeal diseases combined …

The last step addressed the example of milk to show that cultural and economic aspects have to be considered, when applying the One Health approach. In this video you discover …

The One Health concept cannot only be applied to animals and humans alone. It has to be adapted also for animal products and related issues like nutrition, health and income. …

Vitamin A levels indicate the linkages between the environment, animals and humans. Animals interconnect with the environment, for instance through their fodder, and humans expand this chain as they consume …

Animal-assisted therapy is also understood as a One Health approach. It has gained momentum over the last years, being applied in hospitals, psychiatric or rehabilitation clinics, prisons and schools. As …

Numerous scientific studies over the past three decades support people’s intuitive belief that there are health benefits from relationships with companion animals. Below we refer non-exhaustively to examples described in …

Having explored, how quantitative One Health methods apply to rabies control, let us investigate an actual example. The following chart not only discloses the real costs of a campaign. It …

The annual incidence of suspected animal bites can be calculated from the community level animal bite incidence and the observed proportion of suspected bites in the health centres during the …