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Making Sense of One Health

Cooperating at the Human-Animal-Ecosystem Health Interface April 2011

By Aline Leboeuf, PhD

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This study aims at showing and making sense of the One Health approach, according to which it is impossible to defeat infectious disease without working at the interface between human health, animal health and the environment. The study also attempts to illustrate how One Health emerges on the international scene. In doing so, it explains that through the One Health approach, a new form of global governance takes form.”

 

Permission to post on One Health Initiative website granted July 29, 2011 by Dr. Loboeuf.

 

 

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