One Health approach to WASH, zoonotic disease, health and wellbeing

The paper advocates for expanding the integration of One Health and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) frameworks. It argues that current efforts are too narrow, focusing mainly on animal faeces in households while ignoring other transmission pathways like animal handling. The authors propose a broader approach to improve biosecurity and address systemic issues such as food insecurity, animal welfare, and nutrient-driven ecosystem degradation.

• Current efforts to link One Health and WASH are limited because they primarily target animal faeces in household settings, overlooking other significant contamination risks such as animal handling.
• A comprehensive One Health–WASH approach can provide benefits beyond disease risk reduction, including the promotion of equity, climate resilience, food security, agricultural livelihoods, and the mitigation of ecosystem degradation caused by excessive nutrients in excreta.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2025). One Health approach to WASH, zoonotic disease, health and wellbeing. https://www.sei.org/publications/one-health-approach-wash-zoonotic-disease-health-wellbeing/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. One Health approach to WASH, zoonotic disease, health and wellbeing. 2025. https://www.sei.org/publications/one-health-approach-wash-zoonotic-disease-health-wellbeing/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2025one, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{One Health approach to WASH, zoonotic disease, health and wellbeing}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2025}, month = jun, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/one-health-approach-wash-zoonotic-disease-health-wellbeing/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }