One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives

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COVID-19 left a legacy for millions, including healthcare workers like me. Through the tough times, the teamwork, the joy and the loss, many working in healthcare, including myself, have now lived through both the day that we were born and the day we realised why.’ King Lonnie. One Health Initiative Task Force. American Veterinary Medical Association; 2008. One Health: A New Professional Imperative. https://www ​.avma.org ​/KB/Resources/Reports ​/Documents/onehealth_final.pdf. It is clear that authors were starting to use OH as a standalone term from 2008, and following the FAO/WHO/OIE joint statement in 2010, OH overtook its predecessors and became adopted much more widely. Data for 2014 suggest an acceleration of this trend, with citations using the term OH nearly doubling to 173 per year, although usage of OM and OWOH persists at much lower levels. Current education, policy and funding are not structured to support collaboration between human and veterinary medicine. Humanimal Trust exists to change this, to ensure medical progress is made equally and sustainably for humans and animals moving forward.

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Leung Zee, Middleton Dean, Morrison Karen. One Health and EcoHealth in Ontario: A Qualitative Study Exploring How Holistic and Integrative Approaches Are Shaping Public Health Practice in Ontario. BMC Public Health. 2012; 12(1):358. [ PubMed : 22591618] Clarke Adele. Social Worlds/Arenas Theory as Organizational Theory. In: Maines David, editor. Social Organization and Social Process: Essays in Honour of Anselm Strauss. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter; 1991. pp. 119–158. At Medicalstudyzone.com, we take user experience very seriously and thus always strive to improve. We hope that you people find our blog beneficial!His first book, Critical,has been translated into four languages. He lives in Australia with his family, enjoys CrossFit, photography, cold beer and even colder ice cream.

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So what happened to initiate this change and the more widespread uptake of OH? Adopting OH as a single term had advantages for both OM and OWOH advocates: it was less cumbersome, significantly broadened the scope of their shared agenda, and decentered disciplines. The idea of “health” reaches far beyond infectious disease or clinical research and encompasses a much broader range of issues, practices, and policies than “medicine” can. Many advocates have embraced the flexibility of this expanded version of OH, adopting the “umbrella” metaphor as a way of articulating the inclusive nature of the agenda ( One Health Sweden 2014). This shift was also driven by more pragmatic concerns: in 2008 the Wildlife Conservation Society registered the OWOH slogan as a trademark with the U.S. Patent Office, preventing its usage by other organizations. Since 2010, a biennial international conference series and journal have been founded and activities have been sponsored by research funding bodies, philanthropic foundations, and pharmaceutical companies. Moving out from its origins in the United States and Switzerland, OH meetings and associations have become increasingly international, appearing across Europe (e.g., Netherlands, Sweden), Southeast Asia (e.g., South Korea, Malaysia), Australia, and Africa (e.g., Ethiopia, Uganda). The ideas and terminology of OH have increasingly been used to facilitate interdepartmental cooperation in policy making and government ( CDC 2013; Department of Health 2013; Leung et al. 2012). In the United Kingdom at least, several universities have merged their veterinary, medical, and biological sciences schools, referencing OH as part of the reason for these moves and launching new training programs ( Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons [RCVS] 2014; University of Surrey 2012).Developing this theme, Chien (2013, 223) concluded that the “productive vagueness” of OH enabled FAO, WHO, and OIE to move from mutually exclusive understandings of avian influenza toward a collective reframing that enhanced their interests, while minimizing interagency tensions. Chien drew upon Star and Griesemer’s (1989) classic study of “boundary objects” in scientific collaboration: concepts concrete enough to articulate common ideas across several “social worlds” (groups of people working toward a shared goal), yet flexible enough to be reinterpreted to fit the particular needs of each of these groups. 3 Chien argued that OH acts as a boundary object for actors pushed into working together across the siloed social worlds of international health. However, as Star (2010) later discussed, boundary objects are not simply words with multiple meanings: they must be understood as the product of ongoing processes of social negotiation, and tend to operate at the scale of organizations, rather than in the details of interpersonal relationships or larger social structures.