Dados do Trabalho

Título

Pre-Columbus One Health: how ancient civilizations, indigenous populations, and integrated health are the learning steps for sustainability, health and equity in the modern Americas

Introdução

Spillover, pandemic, the emergence and spread of infectious diseases with sustained transmission among persons and animals together with climate change and disasters have long hit humanity, representing worldwide challenges for science, medicine, and health.

Objetivo (s)

Changing natural environments can modify the balance between species, increase contact among them and establish novel one health intrinsic interactions. Other activities, such as illegal wildlife trade, pollution, urbanization without sustainability, habitat destruction, lack of disease surveillance can contribute to the emergence of new infectious diseases.

Material e Métodos

Although governments have been responsible for health policies, the multifactorial character in the emergence of pandemics may indicate a shared responsibility for controlling those occurring and preventing new ones from arising. In such a scenario, current and future professionals together, diverse stakeholders and communities’ representatives, including minorities should work together. It is the role of creating sustainable partnerships through One Health Research initiatives with cooperative efforts to promote transparent discussions and generate and disseminate knowledge, fulfilling their role in the training of professional citizens, since only knowledge can lead to changes in individual behaviors and society perspectives. 

Resultados e Conclusão

The authors experiences and review will discuss: “What is One Health, Who Coined One Health with Its History and Evolution in Modern Years, and the importance for environmental inclusion and conservation, lessons learned from the indigenous populations, and the importance to bridging and integrate Health through a systemic vision.” Furthermore, we will continue to emphasize and recognize that in many ways health and environmental literacy, traditional knowledge, experiences and terminology evolved back to what the indigenous peoples from across the world have been living and practicing for 10,000 years and/or even more.  

Palavras Chave

One health; indigenous; leishmaniose