title: The components of 'One World - One Health' approach.
abstract: The interaction between living beings, including men, animals and pathogens, sharing the same environment, should be considered as a unique dynamic system, in which the health of each component is inextricably interconnected and dependent with the others. Nowadays, a new integrated One Health approach is reflecting this interdependence with a holistic view to the ecological system. The One Health approach can be defined as a collaborative and a multidisciplinary effort at local, national and global level to guarantee an optimal healthy status for humans, animals and environment. Strictly related to the One Health concept is to be considered the control of infectious diseases, which have influenced the course of human history. Four different components might be identified as key elements within the 'One World - One Health' (OWOH) approach: the geographical component, the ecological one, the human activities and the food-agricultural ones.
authors.affiliation: Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise G. Caporale, Campo Boario, Teramo, Italy.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Calistri
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Iannetti
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Danzetta
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Narcisi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cito
authors.forename: D Di
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Sabatino
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bruno
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sauro
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Atzeni
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carvelli
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Giovannini
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017753:Ecosystem; D014943:Global Health; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans
keywords: One Health; infectious diseases; prevention; zoonoses