l HEALTH

In the chaos of life, where drabness prevail, making the community dumbstruck to the unhealthy life goals.Lives are being deceptive; emotions are becoming stunned by the sharp looks of digital media and health is being compromised due to irregular lives. Round the clock, men are engrossed in materialistic pursuits of digital globe, bright lights of the cell phones and to fill the hearth of their bellies, that have snatched their healthy livelihood. According to World Health Organization “A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of Disease or infirmity is Health”

l What is ONE HEALTH?

If we cast a glance to the recent aspects of life, we will come across the digital drawbacks on human health, developmental drawbacks on environment and catastrophic impacts of inhumanity on animals lives. All these health statuses if combined would lead to the One Health phenomenon, that was uplifted by the WHO and emphasized to be taken care of to sustain life on the EARTH. One Health is a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach — working at the local, regional, national, and global levels — with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and

their shared environment.

One health phenomenon was introduced by Calvin Schwabe, another veterinarian trained in public health, who coined the term One Medicine in a veterinary medical textbook in 1964, which reflects the similarities between animal and human medicine and stresses the importance of collaboration between  veterinarians and physicians to help solve global health problems. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) introduced the term “One World-One Health” in 2007 along with 12 recommendations (the Manhattan Principles) that focused on establishing a more holistic approach to preventing epidemic disease and maintaining ecosystem integrity.

When Humans, animals and environment are put together they make up the One Health Triad . The One Health Triad shows how the health of people, animals, and the  environment are linked to one another. One health phenomenon actually depicts the importance of healthy outlook that is necessary to maintain the life on the earth. In the last two years, the pandemic that struck humankind actually brought issues for every living being on the earth and significantly reflected the importance of every entity to be taken care of. The One Health approach supports global health security by

improving coordination, collaboration and communication at the human-animal-environment interface to address shared health threats such as zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, food safety and others.

l Why One Health?

One health importance can significantly impact the entities on the earth, as worldwide, nearly 75 percent of all emerging human infectious diseases in the past three decades originated through animals. Thus, zoonotic diseases play an integral role to create an impact on life. Like for example, covid’19 that introduced the lethality in human lives and depicted the importance of health revolution with digital revolution. Likewise, if we consider the environmental health, it may affect human and animal health through contamination, pollution and poor conditions that may lead to new infectious agents. Thus, targeting One health phenomenon for the sustainable living.

The world population is projected to grow from 7 billion in 2011 to 9 billion by 2050. This prediction requires more food generation, healthcare facilities and quality industrialization for the emergence of quality life on the earth. On the contrary, to provide adequate healthcare, food and water for the growing global population, the health professions, and their related disciplines and institutions, must work together. In different researches, it is crystal clear fact that the triad of human-animal-environment bond needs each other to grow and develop sustainably. The human-animal bond beneficially impacts the health of both people and animals, while humans and the animals together bring beauty for the green land. The human-animal bond also depicted the importance of reducing diseases through psychiatric therapies and proved beneficial for old aged humans, to reduce boredom. While, environment-human bond can lead to beauty of the globe and also destruct the beauty, if misused. To move ahead, we require continuous efforts to grow together and move ahead to gleam.

In nutshell, “One Health (OH)” refers to such collaboration between local, national, and global experts from public health, health care, forestry, veterinary, environmental, and other related disciplines to bring about optimal health for humans, animals, and environment. The concept of OH is still in embryonic stage in Pakistan and increasingly gaining importance. Soon it will be globalized and gain importance all across the borders. One health is the phenomenon to grow together, making health the priority and moving ahead for the sustainable One Globe.