Trade-offs among human, animal, and environmental health hinder the uniform progress of global One Health
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The One Health (OH) approach, integrating aspects of human, animal, and environmental health, still lacks robustly quantified insights into its complex relationships. To fill this knowledge gap, we devised a comprehensive assessment scheme for OH to assess its progress, synergies, trade-offs, and priority targets. From 2000 to 2020, we find evidence for global progress toward OH, albeit uneven, with its average score rising from 61.6 to 65.5, driven primarily by better human health although environmental health lags. Despite synergies prevalent within and between the three health dimensions, over half of the world's countries, mainly low-income ones, still incur substantial trade-offs impeding OH's advancement, especially between animal and environmental health. Our in-depth analysis of synergy and trade-off networks reveals that maternal, newborn, and child health are critical synergistic targets, whereas biodiversity and land resources dominate trade-offs. We provide key information for the synergetic and uniform development of global OH and policymaking.
Source: iScience
Authors: Ya Tian, Junze Zhang, Zonghan Li, Kai Wu, Min Cao, Jian Lin, Prajal Pradhan, Shengjie Lai, Jia Meng, Bojie Fu, Min Chen, Hui Lin
Institutions: Nanjing Normal University, Jiangxi Normal University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, University of Groningen, Leibniz Association, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, University of Southampton, Nanjing General Hospital of Nanjing Military Command, Nanjing University
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,150
OpenAlex ID: W4404169170