One Health approach

Human, animal and environmental health

Human, animal and environmental health are closely interrelated. This becomes clear, for example, through the increase in so-called zoonoses (diseases that are transmitted from animals to humans) and antibiotic resistance.

In addition, as a result of globalisation, diseases are spreading faster and faster worldwide - as we are currently experiencing with the COVID 19 pandemic.

If we want to promote health globally and holistically, actors from all sectors - from human and veterinary medicine, but also from the environmental sciences - must work together.

The term "One Health" stands for this holistic, interdisciplinary approach.

One Health bei der DAHW

The One Health approach is also becoming increasingly important in our project work. Almost all the diseases we fight in our regions of operation are zoonoses. For the sustainable prevention and control of these diseases, it is essential that their modes of transmission and causes are addressed with interdisciplinary and intersectoral measures.

In addition, the holistic One Health approach offers countries with very limited resources (human resources, equipment, etc.) and weaker infrastructures an opportunity to strengthen overall health services - both human and veterinary - and to exploit synergies in WAter, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), agriculture and food safety.

WORLD HEALTH DAY 

7 April 2022

Aktionsseite der WHO: "Our planet, our health"

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Zoonoses

Many infectious diseases are believed to be zoonoses - diseases that can be transmitted from animal to human or vice versa.

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