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8th One Health Veterinary Record article posted on One Health Initiative website today… British (United Kingdom) Veterinary Journal Publishes another Article of One Health Series 2014 Veterinary Record 2014;175:188-193 doi:10.1136/vr.g4996 Rabies control and elimination: a test case for One Health 1.          Sarah Cleaveland, OBE, BSc, BA, VetMB, PhD, FRSE, 2.          Felix Lankester, BVSc, MSc, 3.          Sunny Townsend, BSc, MSc, PhD, 4.          Tiziana Lembo, DVM, MSc, PhD and 5.          Katie Hampson, BSc, MSc, PhD 1.          e-mail: sarah.cleaveland@glasgow.ac.uk  Abstract One Health approaches have already been shown to be successful in controlling rabies in different parts of the world. In this article, the latest in Veterinary Records series promoting One Health, Sarah Cleaveland and her colleagues at the University of Glasgow discuss why integrated strategies are needed to enhance the cost effectiveness of measures to control and eliminate rabies, particularly in low-income countries AS One Health becomes more widely advocated, particularly within the veterinary profession, practitioners are coming under increasing scrutiny to demonstrate the added value of these approaches. Despite an intuitive appreciation that complex health problems need to be tackled through an integration of the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches that define One Health, there still remains a need to generate quantitative and qualitative evidence to clearly demonstrate these benefits (Okello and others 2011, Zinsstag and others 2011, Häsler and others 2012, Gibbs 2014). One Health encompasses a wide variety of disease and health problems; however, zoonoses have always been an area of interest and, of these, rabies provides an exemplar of the benefits of a One Health approach. In this paper, we outline how One Health has underpinned successful rabies control programmes, and why integrated approaches are likely to be essential to enhance the cost-effectiveness of control and elimination measures, particularly in low-income countries. Please read entire article at: http://veterinaryrecord.bmj.com/content/175/8/188.full or click on PDF attachment. Provided FREE-ACCESS to the One Health Initiative website September 3, 2014 by: Laura Feetham Assistant Editor, Veterinary Record and In Practice BMJ, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9JR T: 020 78747061 E: lfeetham@bmj.com W: bmj.com/company Note: The previous seven One Health articles of the series were posted in the One Health Initiative website January 23, 2014, February 23, 2014, March 25, 2014, April 20, 2014, June 3, 2014, June 29, 2014 and July 19, 2014.