Animal–human connections, “one health,” and the syndemic approach to prevention

Rock, Melanie; Buntain, Bonnie; Hatfield, Jennifer; Hallgrímsson, Benedikt

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.12.047

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“…Research and practice in relation to One Health is shifting towards concern with shared causes of disease burden across non-human and human populations (Rock et al, 2009;Zinsstag et al, 2011). This shift follows from recognising that there can be no public health without animal health and ecosystem health.…”

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Public health ethics and more-than-human solidarity

Rock

Degeling

2015

Social Science & Medicine

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This article contributes to the literature on One Health and public health ethics by expanding the principle of solidarity. We conceptualize solidarity to encompass not only practices intended to assist other people, but also practices intended to assist non-human others, including animals, plants, or places. To illustrate how manifestations of humanist and more-than-human solidarity may selectively complement one another, or collide, recent responses to Hendra virus in Australia and Rabies virus in Canada serve as case examples. Given that caring relationships are foundational to health promotion, people's efforts to care for nonhuman others are highly relevant to public health, even when these efforts conflict with edicts issued in the name of public health. In its most optimistic explication, One Health aims to attain optimal health for humans, non-human animals and their shared environments. As a field, public health ethics needs to move beyond an exclusive preoccupation with humans, so as to account for moral complexity arising from people's diverse connections with places, plants, and non-human animals.

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Public health ethics and more-than-human solidarity

Rock

Degeling

2015

Social Science & Medicine

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“…This concern with "being alive well" encompasses the wildlife and the land itself; it is not only a matter of human concern or a purely human phenomenon (Adelson 2000). Furthermore, this concern with "being alive well" resonates with the evolving concept of "one health" in veterinary medicine and public health (Green 2012, Rock et al 2009, Zinsstag et al 2011, as well as with Donna Haraway's (2008) revival of the term "flourishing." Haraway (2008), in fact, emphasizes that human bodies and human lives comprise multi-species encounters.…”

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“…In regard to the above, it is increasingly clear that due to the properties of complex systems, the health of human populations is integrally linked to animal populations (Rock et al 2009, Zinsstag et al 2011. Consequently, diseases in plants and animals may serve as sentinels for threats to human health.…”

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Toward stronger theory in critical public health: insights from debates surrounding posthumanism

Rock

Degeling

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2013

Critical Public Health

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The "posthumanist turn" in critical theory comprises efforts to recognize and analyze the interdependence of human existence with non-human entities, including other animals, spaces, and technologies. Scholarship aligned to and debating posthumanism pertains to public health, but has yet to be clearly articulated for a public health audience. This commentary and an appended glossary illustrate the relevance of these ideas for enhancing critical theory in public health.2

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“…One Health is presently addressing the link of animal and human health that Rudolph Virchow proposed a century ago (Rock et al 2009). Each culture interacts with animals distinctively, and households decide on human-animal interactions in these cultural contexts.…”

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“…While the term One Health is new, a long history of natural scienceshuman health research precedes it (see Schwabe 1984, Zinsstag et al 2012, most recently One Medicine (sensu Schwabe 1984), a movement to bridge research silos of human and animal health, as they share biological foundations. Views of health as an outcome of a human-animal, socio-ecological system strengthened following 2003 animal-borne SARS and avian influenza outbreaks (Rock et al 2009), and researchers swapped the One Medicine term for the less clinical One Health (Zinsstag et al 2012). One Health's goal of work "at the interface of humans, animals, and the environment" (Travis et al 2014:28) is "home base" for ethnobiology, which similarly investigates dynamic relationships of cultures, biota, and environments.…”

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Ethnobiology in One Health

Quinlan

2016

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The new One Health concept is, essentially, the ethnobiology of health, addressing the interrelation of human, animal and environmental health. Incited by 2003 outbreaks of animal-borne SARS and avian influenza, One Health's multidisciplinary perspective complements growing international support for interdisciplinary research and health equity. One Health needs researchers able to integrate social and cultural factors into health-related life science questions.

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Animal–human connections, “one health,” and the syndemic approach to prevention

Cited by 120 publications

References 22 publications

Public health ethics and more-than-human solidarity

Public health ethics and more-than-human solidarity

Toward stronger theory in critical public health: insights from debates surrounding posthumanism

Ethnobiology in One Health

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