This chapter discusses the role of social sciences in developing a deeper understanding of diverse perspectives of health and illness in animals and humans, as well as in contributing to improve services and programmes using a One Health approach. Drawing on evaluated and ongoing examples from...

This chapter provides an introduction to the legal framework of One Health. It begins with an overview of national Swiss provisions concerning the human-animal relationship in constitutional law, private law and animal welfare law including animal disease law. The chapter then introduces European...

In this chapter the authors primarily focused on the diseases of the first categories (i.e. without human-to-human transmission or with limited human-to-human transmission), which clearly require an intervention in the animal reservoir and in food safety or improved sanitation in order to interrupt ...

This chapter discussed the management of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) under the One Health programme and presents examples of AMR in hospital germs circulating between animals and humans as well as discussed some evidences of environmental-animal-human AMR exchange.

This chapter discusses the history of rabies, the shift from a "One Medicine" to social-ecological systems (HSES) and their involvement in sustainable, cost-effective elimination of rabies in domestic animals.

This chapter describes a One Health approach to Brucella melitensis, B. abortus and B. suis for epidemiological assessments, surveillance and laboratory capacity, cross-sector economics and practical control options in Central Asia and Sahelian Africa.

This book chapter discusses various perspectives for the control of endemic parasites on livestock farms, namely: to ensure that animal welfare is not adversely affected; this is a moral priority that is supported by legislation in most countries, allow animals to perform at a level that is...

This chapter discusses the Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis proteomics for use in diagnosis and vaccine development.

This chapter discusses the procedure, standardization and methods for drug susceptibility testing (DST) and treatment for Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis.

This book chapter focuses on zoonoses that are not transmitted primarily through food. Establishing systematic data collection is the first step to manage zoonoses. Management is complicated by heterogeneity: zoonoses may have a significant and debilitating effect on some communities but not on...