Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Veterinary medicine protecting and promoting the public's health and well-being.
- Journal:
- Preventive veterinary medicine
- Year:
- 2004
- Authors:
- Pappaioanou, Marguerite
- Affiliation:
- Office of Global Health · United States
Plain-English summary
This article discusses the idea of "One Medicine," which emphasizes the connection between human and veterinary medicine to improve health for everyone. It highlights how veterinarians play a crucial role in protecting public health by ensuring food safety, addressing antibiotic resistance, and managing diseases that can spread from animals to humans. The piece also points out the importance of veterinarians in preparing for emergencies, protecting the environment, and contributing to medical research. Overall, it stresses the need for veterinarians to work strategically in various areas to achieve better health outcomes for both people and animals.
Abstract
Dr. Calvin Schwabe's vision of "One Medicine" has long inspired many in the public health community to strive toward bringing human and veterinary medicine together to improve the public's health and well-being around the world. In an increasingly human-dominated world, as Dr. Schwabe suggested many years ago, human health provides the most-logical unifying or apical cause in veterinary medicine's hierarchy of values. Veterinarians in all aspects of the profession-have opportunity and responsibility to protect the health and well-being of people in all that they do, including protecting food security and safety; addressing threats to antibiotic sensitivity; preventing and controlling zoonotic emerging infectious diseases; protecting environments and ecosystems; participating in bio- and agro-terrorism preparedness and response; using their skills to confront non-zoonotic diseases (such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, vaccine preventable diseases, chronic diseases and injuries); strengthening the public-health infrastructure; and advancing medical science through research. This article provides an overview of contributions made by veterinarians in each of these areas, and discusses the challenges to be overcome and the need for strategic thinking and action to achieve the vision of "one medicine".
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