This chapter describes the added value of the One Health approach, making use of synergies in delivery of health services that were perceived as disconnected. It discusses human health systems service delivery and inequities in health, veterinary services, and wildlife health services. The focus is ...

The One Health concept of combined veterinary and human health continues to gain momentum, but the supporting literature is sparse. In this book, the origins of the concept are examined, and practical content on methodological tools, data gathering, monitoring techniques, study designs, and...

This chapter presents examples of how both costs and benefits of diseases and disease control can cross from animals to humans, and vice versa. These examples span from joint human and animal vaccination services for mobile pastoralists in Chad and brucellosis control in Mongolia, to rabies control ...

This chapter presents a case study that examines the complex associations between reservoir hosts, the environment and the human communities involved in transmission cycles of Leptospira spp., and shows how this information can be used in the design of research and policy interventions to reduce...

This chapter provides an overview of the epidemiological status of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) in Uganda, highlighting its incidence, geographical foci, tsetse fly vectors, animal reservoirs, spread, and management. It then describes evidence that the evolution of a One Health (OH) approach ...

This chapter reviews the evolution of Global Health Governance (GHG), from the early years of International Health Diplomacy in the 19th century, to a discussion of the systems, actors and networks that currently hold a stake in GHG today. Through describing the changing relationships between...

Throughout the history of USA, collaboration among human, animal and environment sectors has waxed and waned according to situational demand for working across disciplines. Several events in the early 21st century renewed interest in the One Health concept, broadly defined as the...

This chapter presents case studies from New Zealand and South East Asia to illustrate the added value of using a One Health approach in policy development and the benefits of taking an integrated transdisciplinary approach when translating science into policy. It describes how disease prevention...