'One Health' is an approach to designing and implementing programmes, policies, legislation and research in which multiple sectors communicate and work together to achieve better public health outcomes.
The areas of work in which a One Health approach is particularly relevant include food safety, the control of zoonoses (diseases that can spread between animals and humans, such as flu, rabies and Rift Valley Fever), and combatting antibiotic resistance (when bacteria change after being exposed to antibiotics and become more difficult to treat).
Many of the same microbes infect humans, animals, plants, and soil, as they share the eco-systems they live in. Efforts by just one sector cannot prevent or eliminate the problem.
(Source: https://www.who.int/features/qa/one-health/en/)
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