ZOONOSES AND THE IMPORTANCE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE IN ONE HEALTH

Abstract

This article seeks to demonstrate the importance of integrating veterinary medicine professionals into One Health, particularly when it comes to health education, welfare, and zoonosis prevention, in the environmental versus human, and human versus animal spheres. In recent years, there has been significant progress in public policies and legislation that promote the value of animal welfare. This highlights the importance of veterinary medicine professionals: embedded in other practices that encompass the comprehensive health of animals living with humans, they implement preventive measures, taking into account the ecocentric model. Veterinary medicine professionals possess the resources for such comprehensive and multidisciplinary work, which extends beyond the care of families and their pets, but also focuses on collaboration with healthcare professionals who, in general, work specifically in human care. The aim is to demonstrate the relevance of zoonoses to global health; the emergence of the One Health concept; and the role of veterinarians in One Health education. The aim is to demonstrate, above all, that this education will take into account environmental and animal factors for a systemic approach to human beings, rational animals, participants, and those constituted by the nature that surrounds them. One Health thus implies multidirectional and multifaceted care, designed for all species simultaneously.