One Health definition

One Health means an approach that recognizes that the health of people is closely connected to the health of animals and our shared environment and demands collaboration across three interdependent sectors—animal health (agriculture sector), human health (health sector) and ecosystems (environmental sector)—to prevent, detect and respond to disease threats.

One Health means a multi-sectoral approach which recognises that human health is connected to animal health and to the environment, and that actions to tackle threats to health must take into account those three dimensions.

One Health means an approach that recognizes that the health of people, the health of animals and the viability of our shared ecosystems are inextricably linked. One Health is a collaborative, multidisciplinary, and multisectoral approach that addresses urgent, ongoing, or potential health threats at the human-animal- environment interface.

Examples of One Health in a sentence

• Excellent technical knowledge of internationally accepted guidelines, such as WHO International Health Regulations and One Health will be considered an asset.

• Students on the following joint degrees: MSc One Health: Ecosystems, Humans and Animals, MSc Global Mental Health and MSc Veterinary Epidemiology should refer to their separate Project Handbooks for guidance.

• Students on MSc One Health (Infectious Diseases), MSc Global Mental Health and MSc Veterinary Epidemiology, must follow the ethics procedures outlined in their MSc Project Handbook (students on MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing will follow the School’s ethics approval process.) The term ‘human data’ includes any documentary data (e.g. case studies, records from interviews etc.), datasets or biological samples.

• Advocating for Public Private Partnerships in Surveillance, Enforcement and Prevention of Illicit Online Drug Sales and Exploring Impacts on One Health.

• Integrated Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance in Foodborne Bacteria: Application of a One Health Approach.

More Definitions of One Health

One Health means One Health as defined in Article 3, point (7), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2371 of the European Parliament and of the Council34;

One Health is a collaborative approach that explicitly combines human, animal and ecosystem health to prevent, detect, respond to, and recover from infectious diseases, with an endpoint of improving global health security and achieving and sustaining gains in development.

One Health means: an approach to designing and implementing programmes, policies, legislation and research in which multiple sectors communicate and work together to achieve better public health outcomes. The areas of work in which a One Health approach is particularly relevant include food safety, the control of zoonoses (diseases that can spread between animals and humans, such as flu, rabies and Rift Valley Fever), and combating antibiotic resistance (when bacteria change after being exposed to antibiotics and become more difficult to treat).

One Health means One Health Group, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

One Health means different things to different people. There is no clear definition. It is about all the things that impact on human health. Is it everything else other than human health or also vice versa, the impacts on animal health and environment. It recognizes that the health of humans, animals and ecosystems are interconnected and so there is a need for a multi-sectoral and collaborative approach. When viewed correctly in a UHC context, one Health concept is relevant to disease prevention, health promotion and effective treatment.

One Health means a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment.

One Health approach means that institutions learn not to work in silos but share the information, plan and work together to solve problems of common interest.