Ljmu 34061 Introduction To One Health; Scope, Concept, Zoonoses & Implementation.

SCOPE, CONCEPT, ZOONOSES & IMPLEMENTATIONIntroduction to One Health One Health in PerspectiveDrive into a shamba, a smallholding, and you observe firsthand the close relationship rural citizens have with their animals. Young men plow the fields with their team of cattle; women milk their cows and goats by hand and use fresh cow dung to floor their houses; a medley of poultry, cats, dogs, and young children play happily together on the dusty ground. Pigs, goats, and sheep wander in and out of houses, latrines, and kitchens, picking at anything remotely edible, all categories of household wastes included.You are also aware of the trappings of poverty: the road you came in on is likely to be unpaved, highly pot-holed and probably inaccessible by anything other than a bicycle or 4×4. Running water is a rarity, electricity even more so. Children, as happy as they are, often bear the telltale pot belly of a high worm burden, and it may have been years since any member of their household had contact with a healthcare professional. The livestock, mainly of indigenous breeding, often show overt signs of disease, ill thrift and anaemia being particularly common. OverviewOne Health is an approach that recognizes that