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21/10/22 07:24 AM IST

One Health Joint Action Plan

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  • The ‘Quadripartite’ — comprising the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Health Organziation (WHO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health — unveiled the five-year One Health Joint Action Plan.

One Health 
  • One Health is an approach calling for “the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally, to attain optimal health for people, animals and our environment”, as defined by the One Health Initiative Task Force.
  • The Joint Plan of Action will create a framework and integrate systems and capacity to collectively better prevent, predict, detect and respond to health threats.
Plan of Action 
  • Enhance capacities to strengthen the health system
  • Reduce risk from zoonotic epidemics and pandemics
  • Control and eliminate zoonotic, neglected tropical and vector-borne diseases
  • Assess, manage and communicate effectively food safety risks
  • Curb Antimicrobial Resistance ( termed as ‘silent pandemic’)
  • Environment and health Policies must be integrated into One Health
Measures 
  • Mainstream health into climate change and biodiversity agendas and fund health programs within the UNFCCC.
  • Integrate health impact assessment in all development project appraisals
  • Assess and quantify the health co-benefits of proposed environmental investments (e.g. REDD+)
  • Increase application of existing climate and health forecasting tools and early warning systems for human and animal health (such as those promoted by the WMO-WHO joint office).
Source- DTE 

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