Beyond Three Circles: A Broader View of One Health

One Health has emerged as a constructive framework to address numerous global issues at the animal, human, and environment interface. The concept that there is a link between human health and the environment and animal health is not new and can be traced as far back as to the Greek physician Hippocrates (c. 460 BCE to c. 370 BCE) in his text On Airs, Waters, and Place where he promoted the concept that public health depended on a clean environment. Lucius Junis Moderatus Columella wrote a work Segregation and Quarantine, which was an early text on agriculture and led to a basic form of One Health in that it advised people and animals to be kept separate on farms.

Source: Advances in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery - January 31, 2017 Category: Veterinary Research Authors: Gary Vroegindewey Tags: Guest Editorial Source Type: research