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What is One Healh
Sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems.
Recognizes the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and inter-dependent.
It mobilizes multiple sectors, disciplines and communities
Who needs to be around the table to solve the problem?
Human Input
Academic input
Policy input
Animal input
Pharmaceutical/ Private input
Environmental Input
Social Input
Economic Input
Why should we practice one health
The percentage of animal pathogens that are zoonotic- 60%
The percentage of emerging infectious disease that affect humans which are of animal origin- 75%.
• Most human pathogens have come through animals
• Animals often maintain pathogens in the environment – wildlife
• Animals are involved in the spread of the pathogens to humans
• Environmental factors are linked to the spread of many pathogens
Why One Health in the Caribbean?
• Similar issues to address across the region
• Small Island states
• Lack of expertise – need to share
• Lack of money – need to share
• Shared culture and history
A “One Health” approach to antimicrobial resistance
Creating a superbug to kill many bacteria
Impact of antimicrobial resistance
Threat to human health, development, and security.
Problem in hospitals, in our food, farms and agriculture can reduce impact by using antimicrobials more responsibly and cutting down on the need for them by improving farm hygiene.
What causes high levels of AMR
overuse and misuse of antibiotics and other antimicrobials in
Humans, Animals (including Farmed Fish), and Crops, as well as the
spread of residues of these medicines in Soil, Crops, and Water.
