One Health Human, Animal, and Environment Triad

by Vithanage, Meththika; Prasad, Majeti Narasimha Vara

• ISBN13: 9781119867302
• ISBN10: 1119867304
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-06-27
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

One Health

A balanced and multidisciplinary exploration of the One Health concept

In One Health: Human, Animal, and Environment Triad, a team of distinguished researchers introduces and explains the concept of One Health by providing an overview of the One Health idea from the perspective of diverse disciplines, from earth and environmental science to ecology and conservation to veterinary and human medicine. The authors also present case studies demonstrating the real-world challenges and opportunities of this interdisciplinary approach to sustainable human well-being.

Readers will find insightful discussions of the interactions between chemical pollutants and water, soil, and the atmosphere, as well as detailed examinations of sustainable food supply, waste management, and pathogen control, backed up by extensive reference data.

One Health: Human, Animal, and Environment Triad also includes:

• The emergence and re-emergence of zoonoses and other infectious diseases
• The behavior of microplastics in soil and water
• Organic farming and its influence on soil health
• The role of light for human well-being

Perfect for researchers interested in global health, ecological health, medical geology, toxicology, epidemiology, and zoonotic diseases, One Health: Human, Animal, and Environment Triad will also benefit professionals with an interest in public health and other public services, resource conservation, waste management, and the circular economy.

Author Biography

Meththika Vithanage is Professor and Director of the Ecosphere Resilience Research Center in the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura in Sri Lanka. Her research is focused on the environmental remediation of toxic metals, antibiotics, agrochemicals, serpentine soil chemistry, and waste biomass conversion.

Majeti Prasad, PhD, is Emeritus Professor in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Hyderabad in India. He has 38 years’ experience teaching environmental science in India’s federal university system.

Table of Contents

1. The Need for a One Health Approach at the Recent Anthropocene

2. Emergence and Re-Emergence of the Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs)

3. Environmental Interfaces for One Health

4. Zoonoses: The Rising Threat to Human Health

5. Microplastics in Soil and Water: Vector Behavior

6. Cyanotoxin in Hydrosphere and Human Interface

7. One Health Approach in Solving Geogenic Health Issues

8. Natural Disasters: Health and Environment Interface

9. Role of Microorganisms in Pollutant Bioavailability in Soil

10. Migration and Exposure of PFAS in the Ecosphere

10. Microbe-Human Domain in One Health Approach

12. Biomedical Waste During COVID-19: Status, Management and Chemical Treatment

13. Transmission Dynamics: Disease Control

14. The One Health Concept and the Organic Farming: The Influence on Soil Health

15. Unknown Chronic Kidney Diseases

16. Waste in One Health

17. One Health Approach for Eye Care

18. Waste in One Health: African Perspective

19. Endocrine Disruptors and Female Reproductive Health: A Problem to Tackle with One Health Perspective

20. Emerging and Re-Emerging Zoonoses in South Asia: Challenges of One Health

21. Impacts of Crop Protection Practices on Human Infectious Diseases Within a One Health Framework

22. Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: A One Health Approach

23. Eco-Epidemiology of Tick-borne Infections: Role of Tick Vectors and Host Community Composition on Circulation and Maintenance of Pathogens

24. Natural Enemies against Dengue: Opportunities and Constraints on Biological Control of Dengue Vectors in Sri Lanka

25. One Health vs. Planetary Health

26. SARS-CoV-2 and Other Pathogenic Organisms in Food and Water: Health Implications and Environmental Risk

27. One Health in the Recent Anthropocene; the Human-Dominated Geological Epoch

28. Bioavailability of Trace Elements in Soils

29. Light as an Environmental Factor for Human Well-being