In the last brief, you proposed a nutritiously sound grab and go breakfast system for OCC. Your efforts were a node in the support of Healthy Campuses. On the other end of access to nutrition is food insecurity. As the undercurrent there are disparities fueled by poverty that are affecting populations health. So how does all of this fit in the One Health framework? Interconnectivity in fact is the pillar of systems thinking. We cannot look at public health in isolation. This is the big take home message of this course.
Watch the film from the mindset that you are in fact watching the most important message of this course.
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Garden. (2018, March 12). One Health One Planet Systems Thinking. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtaSh_QOz8w
Before you dismiss the significance, think about the fact that a remote Guinean village of Meliandou was ground zero of the Ebola outbreak. This resulted in more than 11,000 deaths and jumped continents (see picture below).
EBOLA CASES OUTSIDE OF AFRICA PER WHO DATA
Source: https://goo.gl/images/R3YGN9
Watch Dr. Farmer’s view on the Ebola outbreak and the human rights model as a node in the systems approach to containment through treatment practices.
CDC. (2014, March 7). Making the Case for Prevention: Healthy Corner Stores. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_VkvizRZyg
The jump from animals to humans at ground zero is the genesis of the outbreak. World Health Organization (2018) documents the jump tied to food security and nutrition that bat meat provides to the Guinea culture within the conflict within the region.
During the countrys long years of civil unrest, natural resources were exploited by mining and timber companies. The ecology in the densely-forested area changed. Fruit bats, which are thought by most scientists to be the natural reservoir of the virus, moved closer to human settlements. Hunters, who depend on bushmeat for their food security and survival, almost certainly slaughtered infected wild animals. The wives of the hunters prepared the meat for family meals. Though no one knew it at the time, the Ebola virus had found a new home in a
