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From the Intersection of Food-Borne Zoonoses and EU Green Policies to an In-Embryo One Health Financial Model

The European Union (EU) adopts the One Health (OH) approach, based on the relationships between human, animal, and environmental health. OH concerns a multitude of aspects, some of which are discussed here. OH overlaps the European Green Deal plan and its relaunched Farm to Fork Strategy, which aims...

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Autores principales: Mazzeo, Alessandra, Tremonte, Patrizio, Lombardi, Silvia Jane, Caturano, Costantino, Correra, Arianna, Sorrentino, Elena
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9497950/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36140862
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods11182736
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author Mazzeo, Alessandra
Tremonte, Patrizio
Lombardi, Silvia Jane
Caturano, Costantino
Correra, Arianna
Sorrentino, Elena
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Tremonte, Patrizio
Lombardi, Silvia Jane
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Correra, Arianna
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description The European Union (EU) adopts the One Health (OH) approach, based on the relationships between human, animal, and environmental health. OH concerns a multitude of aspects, some of which are discussed here. OH overlaps the European Green Deal plan and its relaunched Farm to Fork Strategy, which aims at spreading organic farms adopting the circular economy, in order to improve human health through both better environmental conditions and healthier food. Nevertheless, zoonoses cause sanitary cost in terms of infected farm personnel, lower productivity, and lower fertility of infected farm animals. In such scenarios, the decreased breeding yield and the lower income induce higher cost of farm products, meaning that the market price rises, becoming uncompetitive when compared to the prices of industrial products. Consequently, lower revenues can hinder the farm growth expected in the framework of the EU Green Deal. Since zoonosis control is a key element in aligning EU policies aimed at achieving the EU Green Deal goal of “ZERO environmental impact” by 2050, the authors suggest the inclusion of the parameter economic health in the OH approach, in order to individuate EU Member States (MSs) economically unable to conduct eradication programmes and to finance them. Economic health is here considered as a starting point of the new ethical and science-based One Health Financial Model that the authors suggest as an in-embryo model, in which specific rules should regulate public funds, private investments, and trading, which should exclusively concern public services and private enterprises complying with most of the OH parameters. In this way, economic losses due to collateral negative effects deriving from human activities can be progressively decreased, and the entire planet will benefit from the process. Despite the considerable efforts being carried out in the context of the OH approach, war causes tragic and devastating effects on the physical and mental health of human beings, on their lives, on pandemic and zoonotic threats, on animals, on plants and, last but not least, on the environment. War is incompatible with OH. Enormous efforts for peace are therefore urgently needed.
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spelling pubmed-94979502022-09-23 From the Intersection of Food-Borne Zoonoses and EU Green Policies to an In-Embryo One Health Financial Model Mazzeo, Alessandra Tremonte, Patrizio Lombardi, Silvia Jane Caturano, Costantino Correra, Arianna Sorrentino, Elena Foods Review The European Union (EU) adopts the One Health (OH) approach, based on the relationships between human, animal, and environmental health. OH concerns a multitude of aspects, some of which are discussed here. OH overlaps the European Green Deal plan and its relaunched Farm to Fork Strategy, which aims at spreading organic farms adopting the circular economy, in order to improve human health through both better environmental conditions and healthier food. Nevertheless, zoonoses cause sanitary cost in terms of infected farm personnel, lower productivity, and lower fertility of infected farm animals. In such scenarios, the decreased breeding yield and the lower income induce higher cost of farm products, meaning that the market price rises, becoming uncompetitive when compared to the prices of industrial products. Consequently, lower revenues can hinder the farm growth expected in the framework of the EU Green Deal. Since zoonosis control is a key element in aligning EU policies aimed at achieving the EU Green Deal goal of “ZERO environmental impact” by 2050, the authors suggest the inclusion of the parameter economic health in the OH approach, in order to individuate EU Member States (MSs) economically unable to conduct eradication programmes and to finance them. Economic health is here considered as a starting point of the new ethical and science-based One Health Financial Model that the authors suggest as an in-embryo model, in which specific rules should regulate public funds, private investments, and trading, which should exclusively concern public services and private enterprises complying with most of the OH parameters. In this way, economic losses due to collateral negative effects deriving from human activities can be progressively decreased, and the entire planet will benefit from the process. Despite the considerable efforts being carried out in the context of the OH approach, war causes tragic and devastating effects on the physical and mental health of human beings, on their lives, on pandemic and zoonotic threats, on animals, on plants and, last but not least, on the environment. War is incompatible with OH. Enormous efforts for peace are therefore urgently needed. MDPI 2022-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9497950/ /pubmed/36140862 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods11182736 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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From the Intersection of Food-Borne Zoonoses and EU Green Policies to an In-Embryo One Health Financial Model
title From the Intersection of Food-Borne Zoonoses and EU Green Policies to an In-Embryo One Health Financial Model
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title_full_unstemmed From the Intersection of Food-Borne Zoonoses and EU Green Policies to an In-Embryo One Health Financial Model
title_short From the Intersection of Food-Borne Zoonoses and EU Green Policies to an In-Embryo One Health Financial Model
title_sort from the intersection of food-borne zoonoses and eu green policies to an in-embryo one health financial model
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9497950/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36140862
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods11182736
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