Description
Global communities and ecosystems face significant challenges that are complex and multidimensional, with adverse effects on living organisms and global ecosystems. The One Health concept initially focused on transmission of disease from wildlife to humans. More recently, One Health describes a broader perspective encompassing human, wildlife, and ecosystem interrelationships, and the factors that drive outcomes. The One Health Framework can provide a structure approach to develop interventions and actions. Planetary Health, Ecohealth, and Global Health perspectives provide important insights into areas of overlap, methodologies, restoration, and knowledge base. Interventions to reverse the demise of global ecosystems utilize restoration ecology, community education, ecotoxicology, and multiple disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, economics, conservation, biodiversity, and health. BioScience is planning to publish a special issue on One Health and invites articles addressing human, wildlife, domestic animal, and ecosystem health. Topics pertinent to One Health are extremely broad, including, for example, disease transmission, wildlife and human health, anthropogenic effects, One Environmental Health, societal drivers, ecosystem restoration, ecotoxicology, and other subject areas mentioned above. As such, this special issue is intended to encompass multiple aspects and perspectives on the very broad topic of One Heath.
