Thread by @realscientists

A lot of measures treat individuals as dehumanized objects that are used as inputs in a statistical measure presented as value-free

they also tend to disregard the reality that humans are just mammals who interact with nature and other animals

This human-centric research comes up wrong over and over because we act like we are above our environment. We manipulate nature to suit our needs without looking at the consequences to everything else

Humanocentrism: the belief that human beings are the most important entity in the entire universe

The concept of "One Health" integrates veterinary medicine and public health

The concept of “ecosystem health” extends public health to the whole ecosystem, including wildlife.

This following info will be taken from the article:

"From “one medicine” to “one health” and systemic approaches to health and well-being"

"Sustainable development depends on the mutualism of health and well-being of humans, animals and the ecosystems in which they coexist"

"Faced with complex patterns of global change, the inextricable interconnection of humans, pet animals, livestock and wildlife and their social and ecological environment is evident...

and requires integrated approaches to human and animal health and their respective social and environmental contexts."

"The close interdependence of humans and animals in their social and ecological context relates to the concept of 'human-environmental systems', also called 'social-ecological systems.'

"Systems thinking involves non-linear relationships and
feed-back loops between components of complex entities
at different scales."

"Recent work in the fields of systems biology, zoonosis control, public health, ecology, and the social sciences demonstrates quantitative and qualitative systemic linkages ranging from populations to molecular processes"

"How can we provide health care to still growing human and animal populations without losing all the gains due to menacing malnutrition, and how can we attempt to halt resource depletion?"

"How do we deal with a devastating human resource crisis in human and animal health personnel? How do we provide health to a 2000 Watt society?"

"How do we control trans-boundary diseases if surveillance systems are inadequate and barely operational? How do we control communicable diseases if available funds for control are diverted by corrupt authorities?"

"Solutions require all the possible intellectual imagination of science and technology, and at the same time new
forms of cross-sectoral collaboration which involves all
stakeholders."

"Insight into complex ecological and social
processes will allow us to identify high leverage determinants of health and well-being of humans and animals."

"Issues of resource depletion and poor governance and
their effects on health can only be addressed by international treaties and the development of civil societies."