Animals, Health, and Society: Health Promotion, Harm Reduction, and Health Equity in a One Health World (CRC One Health One Welfare) 1st Edition

A Proactive Approach to One Health: Your Guide to a Shared Capacity for Health

This book reframes the historic narrative of people, animals, and nature as risks to each other, promoting a new narrative where health is a shared capacity. It addresses growing calls to shift from a reactive to proactive approach in One Health, providing perspectives and methods from a variety of fields and experts to motivate action.

Key Features

• New Narrative: Promotes the positive contributions made to health across species and generations, and shifts from a reactive to proactive approach in One Health.
• Multidisciplinary Perspectives: Shares and adapts perspectives and methods from a variety of fields and experts to promote collaborative understanding of and action on determinants of health.
• Case Studies: Case studies demonstrate that the principles and practices presented are feasible, empowering people to make choices that concurrently benefit the health of animals, societies, and ecosystems.
• Health Promotion and Equity: The first book to adapt and explain health promotion, harm reduction, and health equity issues in a One Health context, and in terms of animal health.
• Broad Audience: Necessary reading for students of and practitioners working in planetary health, conservation, ecohealth, public health, health promotion, veterinary medicine, and animal welfare.