See the below image for the One health approach diagram. One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognizes that the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and interdependent.
One Health is a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach — working at the local, regional, national, and global levels — with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment. What is One Health?
Here are a few areas that urgently need the One Health approach, at all levels of academia, government, industry, policy and research, because of the inextricable interconnectedness of animal, environmental, human, plant and planet health. Animals as Sentinels for Environmental agent and contaminants detection and response