From the Approach to the Concept: One Health in Latin America-Experiences and Perspectives in Brazil, Chile, and Colombia.

Professionals throughout the world have been working to assess the interdisciplinary interaction and interdependence between health and wellbeing in a constantly changing environment. The One Health concept was developed to encourage sustainable collaborative partnerships and to promote optimal health for people, animals, plants, the environment, and the whole planet. The dissemination of scientific discoveries and policies, by working directly with diverse communities, has been one of the main goals for Global One Health. The One Health concept has also been referred or related to as "One Medicine, One Medicine-One Health, One World-One Health, EcoHealth," and Planetary Health," depending on each fundamental view and approach. In Latin America, despite the concept still being discussed among health professionals and educators, several One Health initiatives have been used daily for more than decades. One Health action has been applied especially in rural and underserved urban areas where low socioeconomic status, lack of health professionals, and scarcity of medical resources may require professionals to work together. Local communities from diverse social and economic statuses, including indigenous populations have been working with institutions and social organizations for many years, accomplishing results through grassroots movements. These "bottom-up" socio-community approaches have also been tools for the prevention and control of diseases, such practice has preceded the One Health concepts in Latin American countries. It is strongly believed that collaborative, multidisciplinary, political, and economic initiatives with prosocial focus may become investments toward obtaining significant results in the face of global, economic and health challenges; working for a healthier world with inclusivity, equity, and equality. In this study, it is briefly presented how the One Health approach has been initiated and developed in Latin America, highlighting the events and actions taken in Brazil, Chile, and Colombia.

Biodiversity and Human Health Interlinkages in Higher Education Offerings: A First Global Overview.

Introduction: Biodiversity is inextricably linked to human health. As an important area of research of the Convention on Biological Diversity and a key avenue for the dissemination of biodiversity and health knowledge, we investigated how well-embedded biodiversity and health interlinkages are in institutional higher education offerings. Methods: Using One Health education programs as a starting point, we collected a global list of institutions potentially carrying out education in the links between biodiversity and health through previously published research, academic partners of global conglomerates, and our own networks. We then analyzed the offerings from these institutions to determine the degree of integration of biodiversity and health interlinkages. Results: We found 105 educational offerings in biodiversity and health interlinkages from 89 institutions in 30 countries. These were primarily found in faculties of public health, veterinary sciences, and medicine, with varying degrees of coverage of the interlinkages. Conclusion: Education incorporating the links between biodiversity and health exists globally, but should be more widely integrated, particularly through inter-faculty and inter-institutional collaboration.

Estudo histológico do intestino delgado de capivaras adultas (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) / Histological study of small intestine of mature capibaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)

No presente estudo utilizaram-se 13 capivaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) adultas abatidas no Matadouro-Frigorífico da Pró-fauna município de Iguape (SP) e no Campus da Universidade Federal de Viçosa - UFV (MG), com o objetivo de caracterizar histologicamente as três regiões do intestino delgado (duodeno, jejuno e íleo). Estas regiões caracterizam-se por apresentar pregas circulares em sua mucosa, com longas e delgadas vilosidades preenchidas por tecido conjuntivo vascularizado, com nervos e vasos linfáticos, cuja altura diminui em direção ao íleo. As vilosidades são revestidas por epitélio simples cúbico, próximo à sua base, e simples prismático, em suas laterais, apresentando borda estriada, intercalado por células caliciformes cujo número aumenta em direção caudal. A túnica submucosa é aglandular e a musculatura lisa da túnica muscular, se dispõe em orientações circular interna e longitudinal externa, esta última revestida pela serosa.