Published In
One Health and Neglected Tropical Diseases
Document Type
Editorial
Publication Date
12-2020
Subjects
Infectious Diseases
Abstract
One Health is defined as an approach to achieve better health outcomes for humans, animals, and the environment through collaborative and interdisciplinary efforts. Increasingly, the One Health framework is being applied to the management, control, and even elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). NTDs are a set of debilitating and often chronic infectious diseases that, collectively, affect more than one billion people in almost 150 countries, with disproportionate impact on the extremely poor [1,2]. In this Special Issue, we present a diverse body of work united under the One Health ideology and a desire to mitigate the devastating effects of NTDs. The numerous diseases, methodologies, and landscapes presented highlight the interconnected and increasingly overlapping existence of humans, animals, and their pathogens.
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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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DOI
10.3390/tropicalmed6010004
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34913
Citation Details
Peterson, J. K., Bakuza, J., & Standley, C. J. (2021). One Health and Neglected Tropical Diseases—Multisectoral Solutions to Endemic Challenges.