One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives

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For example, studying kangaroos, in particular the female's three vaginas, has improved in-vitro fertilisation success rates. While the vast majority of publications discussing OH come from biomedical and health oriented authors, there is a small but rapidly developing social science and humanities literature on the topic.

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One Health: Food and Agriculture of the United Nations Strategic Action Plan" Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization. OWOH originated in mid-twentieth-century internationalism and the founding of international health agencies such as the WHO. One Health and EcoHealth in Ontario: A Qualitative Study Exploring How Holistic and Integrative Approaches Are Shaping Public Health Practice in Ontario.As we have seen, the OH literature often references terms including “food security,”“health security”“emerging infectious diseases,” and “translational medicine,” arguing that OH can provide solutions for problems in these areas. However, the concept of One Health, as we presently know it, originated from One Medicine, a notion which is much older and which emerged to promote collaboration between the human and veterinary medicine professions and the allied health/scientific disciplines. Beyond the FAO, many other actors in food security do not mention OH: however OH advocates often cite food security as another example of a complex, interdisciplinary, global problem that their agenda can help to address ( King and One Health Initiative Task Force 2008). Over the past decade, the language of OH has been taken up by increasingly prominent actors in global health and biomedicine, including funders, international agencies and pharmaceutical companies; however, there has been a long history of veterinary led advocacy for similar ideas since the late 19th century.

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Who are the key actors in this process, when did they become involved, and what does OH mean to them?

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. OH then became interdisciplinary via powerful institutional actors in biomedicine, transforming into a “top-down” agenda, to the point that some veterinarians now express concerns that they will merge back into the biomedical sciences, overtaking their own interests ( RCVS 2014, 10). Food and Agriculture Organization, World Organization for Animal Health, World Health Organization, UN System Influenza Coordination, World Bank, and UNICEF. provides a diagrammatic representation of the complex of alliances that have come together to form OH: something like an actor-network diagram, but with an added dimension of change over time.