EcoHealth

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EcoHealth
Sending S.O.S to the world
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EcoHealth
The effect of ecosystem function on human,
animal, and plant health
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Ecosystem Health
Human Health
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Animal and plant health
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The epidemiological triad
Environment
Host
Agent
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The epidemiological triad
habitat modification, antibiotics-use
Agent
Human host
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The epidemiological triad
habitat modification, antibiotics-use
Host
Novel/ resistant pathogens
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The epidemiological triad
habitat modification
Morbid host
Novel pathogens
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Gideon, put on your sweater, its cold outside,
you might catch a cold
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Gideon, put on your sweater, its cold outside,
you might catch a cold
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Health A state of complete physical, mental and
social well-being and not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity (WHO 1948)
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In this course will use the narrower definition
Health .. absence of disease or infirmity
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Definition
Disease dis ease
Disease A pathological condition of a part,
organ, or system of an organism resulting from
various causes, such as infection, genetic
defect, or environmental stress, and
characterized by an identifiable group of signs
or symptoms. (Answers.com)
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Definition
Infection Infection is defined as (Webster)
state produced by the establishment of an
infective agent in or on a suitable host with
infective agent defined as a communicable
agent that can be transmitted from one host to
another (Webster dictionary)
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Emerging Diseases definition An emerging
disease is one that has appeared in a population
for the first time, or that may have existed
previously but is rapidly increasing in incidence
or geographic range (WHO 2008).
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Zoonosis An infectious disease naturally cycling
within an animal system (reservoir host) that
could be transmitted to humans.
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drug resistance
Obesity,
Biodiversity
Vector-borne diseases
Global warming
The dilution effect
Avian Influenza,
Amphibian decline
Biogeochemical cycles
Zoonosis
case-control study
Emerging disease
Niche
Ecology
Rabies
Epidemiology
Aldo Leopold,
Ecosystem services
West-Nile virus
Chytridiomycosis
Social ecology
Land-use change,
Environmental bioethics
Van Rensselaer Potter
habitat encroachment,
The built environment
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Biodiversity
The dilution effect
Vector-borne diseases
Global warming
Chytridiomycosis
Amphibian decline
Zoonosis
Rabies
Avian Influenza,
West-Nile virus
drug resistance
Emerging disease
Land-use change,
habitat encroachment,
Ecology
Niche, Parasite-host interaction
case-control study
Epidemiology
Biogeochemical cycles
Ecosystem services
Social ecology
Obesity,
The built environment
Environmental bioethics
Aldo Leopold,
Van Rensselaer Potter
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Course outline

• General introduction who are and what are we
  about?
• Intro to ecology x 2
• Individual, population
• Community, ecosystem, biosphere
• Intro to epidemiology incidence, prevalence,
  study design
• Infectious diseases (x4)
• Human emerging diseases (zoonoses)
• Domestic animals emerging diseases
• Wildlife emerging diseases
• Plant emerging diseases
• Environmental diseases (x2)
• Toxicants, carcinogens, radiation
• Food and water-borne diseases. allergens
• Genetic diseases
• Global health global warming, stratospheric
  ozone, ecosystem services
• Evolutionary medicine virulence evolution, drug
  resistance
• Social ecology and the built environment
• Environmental ethics

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Whats in a name
Conservation medicine Eco-epidemiology Ecosystem
health Environmental health
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Whats in a name
Ecological Health EcoHealth
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• Eco oikos home biosphere

• Health more than just absence of disease a
  positive sense of physical, mental, and social
  well being

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What we are about The health of our home
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Basic tenet Healthy home healthy tenants
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