Publications
At the SCOH Gazette, we're dedicated to providing readers with engaging and informative publications on a wide range of One Health-related topics.
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February:
ELEMENTS
This month we decided to show you how some global health challenges may impact the health of our ecosystem's elements:
Soil, Water and Air. You will find articles focusing on:
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Soil - Landslide prevention, Crop quality, AMR
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Water - Heavy metals, Overfishing, AMR
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Air - Pollutants, Airborne zoonoses, AC impact
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The impact of plastic on soil and water
ABSTRACT
This article explores how trees protect against landslides, hence the importance of preserving and restoring trees for disaster risk reduction. Trees are beneficial in protecting against landslides from a variety of standpoints, ranging from their direct impact on soil stabilization through their root systems and erosion control...
​Guardians of the Slopes: The Vital Role of Trees in Landslide Prevention
Dikshya Paudel
ABSTRACT
Soil health is a critical determinant of ecosystem vitality, supporting plant growth and animal development. It encompasses the overall condition of soil in a specific area, including its physical, chemical, and biological properties. Maintaining good soil health is essential for...
The Connection Between Soil Health And Crop Quality For Human And Animal Consumption
Yadasa Jonah Salihu
ABSTRACT
Antibiotics are used to protect human health as well as to treat animal infections and stop them from spreading. However, AMR is an inevitable occurrence that seriously jeopardizes the health of organisms. It is brought on by unregulated antibiotic usage, the growing tendency of industrialization and agricultural expansion...
AMR in Soil: A Global Challenge
For Plant, Human, and Animal Health
Autchamapon Rakkarn
ABSTRACT
Water is an essential element for life and civilization, facing threats from contamination by heavy metals due to human activities like industrialization, urbanization, and agriculture. Heavy metals like cadmium, lead, mercury, and arsenic, originating from various sources..
Unveiling The Toxic Dangers Of Heavy Metal Poisoning In Water
Lanang Nugroho
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Seafood provides nutrition to over a third of the global population and fisheries are also a crucial part of the economy, but this has led to overfishing over a third of fish stocks worldwide. Overfishing occurs when targeted species are caught beyond sustainable levels...
Overfishing: A Global Crisis And Its Implications For Marine Ecosystems
Alice Diana
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become a pressing global health concern, notably in the context of its dissemination into surface waters, driven by human and agricultural inputs. Recent research has sought to unravel the intricate impact of AMR in surface waters on...
Unveiling The Ripple Effect: AMR In Water Systems And Its Global Impact
Udoh Success Andrew
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Air pollution is one of the most important global public health problems today. It has moved up from the fifth to the fourth leading risk factor for mortality worldwide, with 6.67 million deaths. The sources, composition and concentrations of air pollutants are human activities...
The Silent Threat: Assessing The Impact Of Air Pollution On Respiratory Health And Beyond
Nasir Maryam, Ibeh Esther
ABSTRACT
The emergence of zoonotic diseases, those transmissible from animals to humans, has become a growing concern in recent years. Globalization, intensive farming practices, and human encroachment on wildlife habitats have all contributed to increased interconnectedness...
Breathing In Danger:
The Airborne Spread Of Zoonotic Diseases
Aliyu Hamza
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This article highlights the growing reliance of people on air conditioning systems due to climate change, which leads to increased energy consumption and the subsequent generation of greenhouse gas emissions, indirectly generating more global warming and increasing the need for AC...
The Climate Change Conundrum:
Air Conditioning as a Double-Edged Sword
Mehdi Ben Labiedh
ABSTRACT
Plastic pollution is one of the most dangerous types of pollution of our time, posing significant threats to human health, animal health, and ecosystems.The persistence of plastic materials, which can take thousands of years to decompose, exarcebates the problem...