Course: One Health: Connecting Humans, Animals and the Environment

In this video Jakob Zinsstag uses the example of dog rabies to explain why a communication between a human health centre and a veterinary diagnostic centre is a clear case …

Rabies is a classic viral zoonotic disease, infecting all mammal species. It is generally transmitted through an invasive manner from saliva to a bite wound, leading to encephalitis with distinct, …

In order to demonstrate the evidence of advantages of a One Health approach, quantitative methods are very important. Watch Jakob Zinsstag explain, what steps have to be taken to use …

The One Health economic framework (adapted from Narrod et al. 2012) is a modified risk analysis which links outputs associated with animal health transmission models, economic impact models and risk …

Calculations and graphs help veterinarians to answer questions like ‘Is it cost-effective to mass vaccinate 25 million cattle, sheep and goats in order to prevent human brucellosis?’ or ‘What is …

In the last steps we have seen that populations are very dynamic and that we can approach their size and growth with different equations and calculations. In this step, we …

Here you find the solution to the exercise of the previous step. If desired, you may download a completed spreadsheet. The formulas should be: (S_{(T+1)})= B2 + ($F$2 * (B2+C2+D2)) …

What are the principles governing the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases? They are best understood if we exemplify them with numbers and fill those in to the spreadsheet of a …

With transition models, veterinarians can calculate the transmission of diseases from animals to human and the spread of the illness. This is essential as it reveals where you can intervene …

After you finish the calculations, it is time to check your results and to interpret them. Jakob Zinsstag demonstrates how to read the results in the theoretical framework of One …

If you want to convince with your arguments in the field of One Health, it is indispensable that you have calculations and graphs supporting your results. In this video Jakob …

Read the following study abstract from ‘Representative Seroprevalences of Brucellosis in Humans and Livestock in Kyrgyzstan’ by Bonfoh et al. 2012. If you have never planned or done a One …

In order to make the One Health concept work we need to investigate the animal-human interaction as well as the underlying biology. If you wish to convince stakeholders and decision …

Doctors and veterinarians who work together achieve more than they would achieve working alone. Jakob Zinsstag tells you about his work with mobile pastoralists. He demonstrates how he and his …