Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorGrace, Delia
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-14T10:52:49Z
dc.date.available2015-08-14T10:52:49Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationGrace, D. (2014) The business case for One Health. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 81(2), Art. #725, 6 pages.en
dc.identifier.issn0030-2465
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/6729
dc.description.abstractThis article outlines a pathway to develop the business case for One Health. It describes the origin and development of One Health and then identifies five potential areas where One Health can add value and reduce costs. These are: (1) sharing health resources between the medical and veterinary sectors; (2) controlling zoonoses in animal reservoirs; (3) early detection and response to emerging diseases; (4) prevention of pandemics; and (5) generating insights and adding value to health research and development. Examples are given for each category along with preliminary estimates of the potential savings from adopting the One Health approach. The literature reviewed suggests that one dollar invested in One Health can generate five dollars worth of benefits and a global investment of US$ 25 billion over 10 years could generate benefits worth at least US$125bn. Conservation implications: the time has come to make the bigger case for massive investment in One Health in order to transform the management of neglected and emerging zoonoses and to save the lives of millions of people and hundreds of millions of animals whose production supports and nourishes billions of impoverished people per annum.en
dc.description.sponsorshipEcosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA)en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherOnderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Researchen
dc.rightsThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.rights.urihttp://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdfen
dc.subjectHealthen
dc.titleThe business case for One Healthen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.rights.holderGrace, D. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals.en
dc.identifier.externalurihttp://dx.doi. org/10.4102/ojvr.v81i2.725en


Files in this item

Thumbnail

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record