Keywords
One Health
EcoHealth
medical ecology
zoonosis
opinions
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Abstract
Medical Ecology studies how human beings adapt to their environment, analyzing the effects on their health and their interactions with ecosystems. One Health is a global strategy that relies on multidisciplinary collaboration and communication among groups from different countries with the aim of promoting health, not only of humans, but also of animals and the environment. On the other hand, EcoHealth is a movement that strives for sustainable health—both of living beings and ecosystems. Understanding this complex relationship is not easy. To this end, EcoHealth promotes studies using methodologies that encourage problem-solving using knowledge drawn from the social, natural and health sciences. The aim of this article is to describe the potential challenges Environmental Health faces and study the similarities and discrepancies in the different discourses on the emergence and re-emergence of anthropozoonoses by reviewing scientific literature.References
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