8 Introduction
collaborative approaches, with a focus on welfare rather than health. One
Welfare serves the role of making explicit the areas of collaboration that
have not been developed within One Health or other similar collaborative
concepts. It develops a framework in itself to enable the build-up and expan-
sion of an evidence base and practical case study set-up taking into account
these areas, which are most times overshadowed by the disease components
of One Health.
At a legislative level, improvements setting up the basis to bring closer
cooperation between human and animal health and welfare would be
beneficial for implementation of a One Health, One Welfare approach
(modified from Wettlaufer et al., 2015):
- correlation of human and animal health and welfare explicitly recog-
nized in law;
- regulated cooperation of domestic government departments and institu-
tions for human and animal health, welfare and the environment;
- regulated cooperation with international institutions and governments.
Fig. 1. Interactions of the three key One Welfare elements with other
multidisciplinary concepts.
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