Environmental and occupational health are interconnected disciplines of public health that are concerned in maintaining a symbiotic relationship between the ecosystem and humans. This relationship is under threat by the continuous and alarming increase of the Earth's temperature causing climate change that impacts not just health but also the economy and the safety of the population. The First National Environmental and Occupational Health Forum was organized by the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, College of Public Health, University of the Philippines Manila to address and discuss the complex issues that the Philippines is currently experiencing when it comes to environmental and occupational health by providing a space where stakeholders from different sectors can actively participate in mapping out challenges and opportunities. The organizer's long-term vision is to catalyze and build a network of collaboration that is geared towards the improvement of health and safety in the workplace that involves mitigating the effects of climate change. The discussions in the forum gave a comprehensive insight into the different challenges we face for being one of the most vulnerable countries to natural disasters: how this affects health, workplace, and environment. These challenges created new opportunities for the country to build resilience and formulate adaptive strategies to decrease the vulnerability of the population especially the workforce who are constantly exposed to different hazards that are exacerbated by changes in the environment.

With the progress of globalization and the improvement of transportation, a public health emergency can spread across country's boundary in a short period of time from its original place to other areas or regions, posing public health threatens. Public health emergencies not only affect human-animal/plant-environmental health, but also have long-term implications for social development, so the public health emergency response has gone beyond general public health and requires an integrated and comprehensive One Health approach. This paper analyzes the problems and shortcomings of China's current public health emergency response system in a view of One Health and put forward the recommendations based on One Health concept on integrality, collaboration, development and sustainability of public health emergency response. These recommendations can be used as reference to further optimize the response system of public health emergencies in China.
Animals ; Humans ; One Health ; Public Health ; Emergencies ; Environmental Health ; China

Communicable Diseases, Emerging ; Disease Outbreaks ; Global Health ; Humans ; One Health

Four organizations, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Environment Programme, WHO, and the World Organization for Animal Health, recently launched a new One Health Joint Plan of Action (2022-2026) which was the first time that the Quadripartite had issued a joint action plan on One Health. The action plan aimed to address the health challenges in the human, animal, plant, and environment, focusing on improving capabilities in six action tracks including One Health capacities, emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases, neglected tropical and vector-borne diseases, food safety, antimicrobial resistance and environment. This introduction will give an overview and brief translation of the background, content, and the plan's value, to help readers understand the joint action plan quickly.
Animals ; Humans ; Agriculture ; Global Health ; One Health ; United Nations ; Zoonoses/prevention & control*

Drugs are used essentially to treat illnesses in humans and animals. When metabolized in food animals, they are harmless, but residues may remain in tissues, meat and milk that can present risks in the food chain. A longterm consequence of drug residues in food of animal origin is the development and emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Generally, increasing the use of antimicrobials in medical and veterinary practice exacerbates AMR. Spread of infection or resistant pathogen or resistance genes in the environment can be explained by the close link between humans, animals, and the environment. The public health and economic impact of AMR have been estimated to be around 100 trillion US dollars each year and food animals are a major reservoir of AMR microorganisms in many low and middle income countries (LMIC). However,due to the lack of data on food-borne pathogens and antimicrobial usage is a challenge in the control of AMR in LMICs where the food industry is heterogeneous, largely informal, and unregulated. Emergence and transmission of AMR in developing countries are linked to food of animal origins, but the awareness of this relationship is low. Overall, the challenge of food insufficiency also described as food insecurity and a lack of adequate food safety measures can worsen the incidence and persistence of AMR. This review summarizes the issues and challenges of emerging drug resistant pathogens from food animals in developing countries, and highlights the importance of a holistic perspective in addressing AMR in humans in the context of the One Health approach.
Animals ; One Health ; Drug Resistance, Bacterial ; Anti-Bacterial Agents ; Developing Countries