4 Introduction
and environmental health, collectively, using tools such as surveillance and
reporting with an endpoint of improving global health security and achieving
gains in development.
(Le Gall et al., 2018)There is a strong health focus that leaves space for an additional One Welfare
definition to complement and expand collaborative approaches.
The concept of One Health aims to deliver added-value benefits rather
than just additive benefits to human–animal–environment collaborations.
This means that, on top of reducing the risk and improving the health and
well-being of animals and humans, there are also financial savings and
quicker disease detection and response, as well as improved environmental
services (Zinsstag et al., 2015).
Following the different approaches to define health, where some re-
strict it to disease aspects only and others describe it as a holistic state that
includes well-being (Lerner, 2017), some argue that One Welfare could be
an integral part of One Health. However, adopting the wider definition of
health under the concept of One Health makes its scope too large when it
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