TY - JOUR
T1 - Barriers to, Efforts in, and Optimization of Integrated One Health Surveillance
T2 - A Review and Synthesis
AU - Uchtmann, Nathaniel
AU - Herrmann, John A.rthur
AU - Hahn, Edwin C.
AU - Beasley, Val R.ichard
N1 - Funding Information:
The AU-IABR has been supported by the European Union, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), WHO, FAO, and OIE with the goal of increasing expertise and quality assurance in animal health surveillance and promotion (African Union IBAR ). AU-IBAR focuses on domestic animals, wildlife, fisheries, and habitats. Included are national action plans to prevent pandemic influenza, programs for animal identification/traceability, and ways to reduce impacts of climate change on animal health.
Funding Information:
We thank the Center for One Health Illinois, along with the USDA via CSREES Grant #2009-34283-20087, for funding the assistantship that made the contributions of Nathaniel Uchtmann to this work possible.
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - Insufficient data from existing surveillance systems underlie societal tolerance of acute and slow-onset health disasters that threaten, harm, and kill vast numbers of humans, animals, and plants. Here we describe barriers to integrated "One Health" surveillance, including those related to a lack of medical services, professional divisions, incompatible vocabularies, isolated data sets, and territorial borders. We draw from publications of experts who justify broader and more integrated surveillance, education, and stewardship focused on preventing and mitigating disease emergence and re-emergence. In addition, we highlight efforts from Illinois, the United States and the broader world, pointing to examples of relevant education; ways to acquire, compile, and analyze diagnostic and syndromic data; mapping of diseases of humans and animals; and rapid communication of findings and recommendations. For the future, we propose using needed outcomes for health and sustainability to set priorities for One Health programs of education, surveillance, and stewardship. Professionals and paraprofessionals should gather, interpret, and widely communicate the implications of data, not only on infectious diseases, but also on toxic agents, malnutrition, ecological damage, the grave impacts of warfare, societal drivers underlying these problems, and the effectiveness of specific countermeasures.
AB - Insufficient data from existing surveillance systems underlie societal tolerance of acute and slow-onset health disasters that threaten, harm, and kill vast numbers of humans, animals, and plants. Here we describe barriers to integrated "One Health" surveillance, including those related to a lack of medical services, professional divisions, incompatible vocabularies, isolated data sets, and territorial borders. We draw from publications of experts who justify broader and more integrated surveillance, education, and stewardship focused on preventing and mitigating disease emergence and re-emergence. In addition, we highlight efforts from Illinois, the United States and the broader world, pointing to examples of relevant education; ways to acquire, compile, and analyze diagnostic and syndromic data; mapping of diseases of humans and animals; and rapid communication of findings and recommendations. For the future, we propose using needed outcomes for health and sustainability to set priorities for One Health programs of education, surveillance, and stewardship. Professionals and paraprofessionals should gather, interpret, and widely communicate the implications of data, not only on infectious diseases, but also on toxic agents, malnutrition, ecological damage, the grave impacts of warfare, societal drivers underlying these problems, and the effectiveness of specific countermeasures.
KW - extinctions
KW - infectious diseases
KW - one health
KW - species declines
KW - surveillance
KW - toxicoses
KW - warfare
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U2 - 10.1007/s10393-015-1022-7
DO - 10.1007/s10393-015-1022-7
M3 - Review article
C2 - 25894955
AN - SCOPUS:84977462818
SN - 1612-9202
VL - 12
SP - 368
EP - 384
JO - EcoHealth
JF - EcoHealth
IS - 2
ER -