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Prev Vet Med. 2013 Jun 19. pii: S0167-5877(13)00173-6. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2013.05.010. [Epub ahead of print]
Research at the interface between human and veterinary health.
Pearce N, Douwes J.
Source
Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University Wellington Campus, Private Box 756, Wellington, New Zealand. Electronic address: n.e.pearce@massey.ac.nz.
Abstract
Epidemiology is currently undergoing changes in its underlying philosophy and approach, as a result of the rapid global changes which are transforming the world in which epidemiologists live and work. This necessitates a multidisciplinary "population approach" involving "multilevel thinking" about the determinants of disease. These issues are of relevance to the interface between human and animal epidemiology, which has received considerable attention in recent years, particularly as a result of the arrival of H1N1 influenza, and the increasingly obvious need for coordinated systems of surveillance for human and animal infectious diseases. However, the need for coordination between human and veterinary epidemiology is broader than that, and there is no need to restrict the "one world one health" concept to communicable disease. In the current paper we will therefore consider the interface between human and animal health for the study of non-communicable disease, particularly those involving occupational and environmental risk factors. These issues are illustrated with two examples: one involving environmental health (asthma); and one involving occupational health (cancer). We will also discuss the potential to use animal health data as indicators for human environmental health risks.
Copyright ? 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
PMID:
23791125
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23791125
Research at the interface between human and veterinary health.
Pearce N, Douwes J.
Source
Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University Wellington Campus, Private Box 756, Wellington, New Zealand. Electronic address: n.e.pearce@massey.ac.nz.
Abstract
Epidemiology is currently undergoing changes in its underlying philosophy and approach, as a result of the rapid global changes which are transforming the world in which epidemiologists live and work. This necessitates a multidisciplinary "population approach" involving "multilevel thinking" about the determinants of disease. These issues are of relevance to the interface between human and animal epidemiology, which has received considerable attention in recent years, particularly as a result of the arrival of H1N1 influenza, and the increasingly obvious need for coordinated systems of surveillance for human and animal infectious diseases. However, the need for coordination between human and veterinary epidemiology is broader than that, and there is no need to restrict the "one world one health" concept to communicable disease. In the current paper we will therefore consider the interface between human and animal health for the study of non-communicable disease, particularly those involving occupational and environmental risk factors. These issues are illustrated with two examples: one involving environmental health (asthma); and one involving occupational health (cancer). We will also discuss the potential to use animal health data as indicators for human environmental health risks.
Copyright ? 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
PMID:
23791125
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23791125