Understanding One Health Policy

This assignment delves into the concept of One Health policy, a new approach that emphasizes sustainable interactions between humans, animals, and the environment. It examines key aspects of the policy, including its goals to conserve biodiversity, prevent disease outbreaks through international trade restrictions, and promote sustainable resource use at local levels. The assignment also highlights the role of 'One Medicine One Science' (COMOS) in advancing this concept by emphasizing shared biological processes across species.

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One Health Policy
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Table of Contents
Answer 1:...................................................................................................................................2
Answer 2:...................................................................................................................................2
Answer 3:...................................................................................................................................3
Answer 4:...................................................................................................................................3
References:.................................................................................................................................4

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Answer 1:
One Health Policy is new concept altogether. The policy will cover the sustainable
interactions between the human, animal and the environment. Such sustainable interactions
will conserve the bio-diversity and will preserve the equilibrium in between the species
richness and species diversity. The policy will also try to prevent the reemergence of the fatal
bacteria and virus borne disease via maintaining the equilibrium between the species level.
Policy will also impose certain restriction in international trade and frequent international
journey in order to prevent the transmission of the deadly viruses and bacteria from the
immigrants (One Health Global Network 2017).
Answer 2:
The overall between the animal, human and wildlife will be addressed in the policy via
observing two basic step:
1. Try to resist the ever-expanding human population via implementing family planning.
This will decrease the chances of human living in close contact with the wild and
domestic animals. This decrease in the prevalence of the close contact survival will
prevent the disease transmission between occurring in between human and animals.
2. Prevent deforestation: It will conserve the equilibrium between the environments and
will protect the natural resources from getting lost completely. The conservation of
the environment leads to the conservation of the habitat, decreasing the probability of
close contact survival (cdc.gov 2017).

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Answer 3:
This policy must be established at the very basic level of government. Establishment
and the application of the one health policy at the grass root level will help to achieve better
outcome and will also promote sustainable use if the natural resources. Such sustainable use
will further conserve the natural resources (Chatterjee et al 2016).
Answer 4:
One Medicine One Science (COMOS).
It is established on the idea that the general biological processes that is underlying the
health and the fatal diseases, share some common features. This concept will lead to the
foundation that the medical knowledge and expertise in one species is equally relevant and
applicable over the other species, which is distantly or closely related (Cardona et al 2015).

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References:
Cardona, C., Travis, D.A., Berger, K., Coat, G., Kennedy, S., Steer, C.J., Murtaugh, M.P. and
Sriramarao, P., 2015. Advancing one health policy and implementation through the concept
of one medicine one science. Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 4(5), pp.50-54.
Cdc.gov. (2017). One Health Basics | One Health | CDC. [online] Available at:
https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/basics/index.html [Accessed 26 Aug. 2017].
Chatterjee, P., Kakkar, M. and Chaturvedi, S., 2016. Integrating one health in national health
policies of developing countries: India’s lost opportunities. Infectious diseases of
poverty, 5(1), p.87.
One Health Global Network. (2017). What is One Health? - One Health Global Network.
[online] Available at: http://www.onehealthglobal.net/what-is-one-health/ [Accessed 26 Aug.
2017].