About this Research Topic
The transfer of zoonotic agents leading to diseases and epidemics is well known, as well as the role played by human activity in the transmission of such agents. Veterinary Public Health (VPH) has an essential role keeping transmissible diseases under control and it involves different disciplines and the application of different techniques. VPH has generally a local and regional focus in sample collection. Disease’s detection may be limited to specific areas. Despite this aspect of VPH, the importance of exchanging data, discoveries and information cannot be overlooked due to the everchanging landscape in global trade, transboundary diseases and extended animal movements.
On a local scale VPH needs often to face different challenges, starting with the infrastructures for live stocks down to optimization, using new technologies as Artificial Intelligence. There are instances where veterinary services are not readily available and temporary solutions need to be found as for example paraveterinary services. The latter should be guaranteed by adequate professional training along the different stages of, as an example, the food chain production. Given the transboundary nature of zoonotic agents and diseases in the last decades, the "One-Health" approach has emerged as a new and holistic approach to incorporate the different facets of Veterinary Science.
To strengthen this approach, veterinary training should eventually dedicate more attention to public health and to preventive measures of zoonosis and epidemics. This renewed focus will also have the additional benefit of defining more clearly the discipline of VPH. Human Public Health, with the same philosophy, should include the animal ecosphere, emerging diseases and zoonoses, focusing on the ‘Human-Animal Interface’.
The goal of this Research Topic is to collect research that will inform VPH best training and practices under a “One Health” approach. We particularly welcome manuscripts, case reports and reviews focusing on, but not limited to:
- Epidemiology/ biosecurity (transfer of agents, intervention models, animals in local/global trade health, bushmeat, wet markets, live animal markets)
- Veterinary profession (links between Veterinary Medicine and Human Medicine, ‘One Health – One medicine’ in practice, VPH in industrialized and not industrialized countries)
- Veterinary Medicine Training (veterinary students’ attitude towards VPH, VPH in the universities curricula, adequate training for paraveterinary workers and veterinaries)
- VPH practice (pest control communication, control strategies for food animals like risk-based meat safety assurance, regional specifications, laboratorial data, the role of paraveterinary works)
On a local scale VPH needs often to face different challenges, starting with the infrastructures for live stocks down to optimization, using new technologies as Artificial Intelligence. There are instances where veterinary services are not readily available and temporary solutions need to be found as for example paraveterinary services. The latter should be guaranteed by adequate professional training along the different stages of, as an example, the food chain production. Given the transboundary nature of zoonotic agents and diseases in the last decades, the "One-Health" approach has emerged as a new and holistic approach to incorporate the different facets of Veterinary Science.
To strengthen this approach, veterinary training should eventually dedicate more attention to public health and to preventive measures of zoonosis and epidemics. This renewed focus will also have the additional benefit of defining more clearly the discipline of VPH. Human Public Health, with the same philosophy, should include the animal ecosphere, emerging diseases and zoonoses, focusing on the ‘Human-Animal Interface’.
The goal of this Research Topic is to collect research that will inform VPH best training and practices under a “One Health” approach. We particularly welcome manuscripts, case reports and reviews focusing on, but not limited to:
- Epidemiology/ biosecurity (transfer of agents, intervention models, animals in local/global trade health, bushmeat, wet markets, live animal markets)
- Veterinary profession (links between Veterinary Medicine and Human Medicine, ‘One Health – One medicine’ in practice, VPH in industrialized and not industrialized countries)
- Veterinary Medicine Training (veterinary students’ attitude towards VPH, VPH in the universities curricula, adequate training for paraveterinary workers and veterinaries)
- VPH practice (pest control communication, control strategies for food animals like risk-based meat safety assurance, regional specifications, laboratorial data, the role of paraveterinary works)
Keywords: Veterinary public health, veterinary training, zoonotic agents, ‘One Health’
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