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The 'One Health' approach recognizes the intrinsic link between human, animal, and environmental well-being.
It advocates for a collaborative, multi-sectoral, and trans-disciplinary strategy to address complex health threats.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the critical need for this integrated framework to prevent and respond to future health crises.
Key elements include enhanced scientific collaboration, robust data sharing, and coordinated policy actions across nations.
The One Health approach is a collaborative, multi-sectoral, and trans-disciplinary strategy—working at local, regional, national, and global levels—to achieve optimal health outcomes by recognizing the intrinsic interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment. It involves understanding how diseases spread between animals and humans (zoonoses), how environmental changes impact health, and how to develop integrated solutions. This includes monitoring wildlife for novel viruses, ensuring safe food production, and managing ecosystems to prevent disease spillover.
Simple Analogy: Imagine a complex web where human health, animal health, and environmental health are all interconnected threads. If one thread weakens or breaks, it affects the stability of the entire web. The One Health approach aims to strengthen all these threads together to maintain overall health and resilience.
Directly supports SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being), SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), SDG 13 (Climate Action), and SDG 15 (Life on Land) by promoting integrated health and environmental management.
One Health is fundamental to combating AMR, as antibiotic use in humans, animals (livestock), and agriculture contributes to resistance, requiring a coordinated approach across these sectors.
Climate change alters ecosystems, affecting disease vectors, animal habitats, and human health. A One Health perspective is essential for developing effective adaptation and mitigation strategies.
Leads global health matters, sets norms and standards, provides technical support for human health aspects.
Leads international efforts to defeat hunger, improve food security and nutrition, focusing on agricultural and food systems.
Improves animal health worldwide, sets international standards for animal health and welfare, and provides scientific expertise.
Coordinates environmental activities, assists countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices.
GS Paper 2: Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health; GS Paper 3: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment; Disaster and disaster management.
General Awareness, Current Affairs related to Health and Environment.
General Awareness, Current Affairs related to Health and Global Organizations.
General Science, General Knowledge related to Health and Environment.
General Awareness, Current Affairs related to Public Health and Global Security.
Consider the following statements: Statement-I: India's public sector health care system largely focuses on curative care with limited preventive, promotive and rehabilitative care. Statement-II: Under India's decentralized approach to health care delivery, the States are primarily responsible for organizing health services. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?
Answer: Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct...
With reference to Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, consider the following statements: 1. Private and public hospitals must adopt it. 2. As it aims to achieve universal health coverage, every citizen of India should be part of it ultimately. 3. It has seamless portability across the country. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Answer: 3 only
'Mission Indradhanush' launched by the Government of India pertains to
Answer: immunization of children and pregnant women
Medium-High, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic has brought this concept to the forefront of global health discussions.
Infectious diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans.
The ability of microorganisms (like bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites) to stop an antimicrobial (like antibiotics, antivirals, and antifungals) from working against it.
A transdisciplinary field focused on characterizing the human health impacts of human-caused disruptions of Earth's natural systems.
The collaborative alliance of WHO, FAO, WOAH, and UNEP working together to implement the One Health approach.