One Health Basics One Health
President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition Learn how the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition works to motivate people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities to lead active, healthy lives. Healthy People Learn about Healthy People, the initiative that sets national objectives to help improve health and well-being for all people. Contamination of water used for drinking, recreation, and more can make people and animals sick. Experts from the One Health Office lead One Health Zoonotic Disease Prioritization workshopsto help countries, regions, and other areas focus limited resources on their top zoonotic diseases of concern.
- For example, it is estimated that life expectancy has increased for Americans by thirty years since 1900, and worldwide by six years since 1990.
- One Health is an approach that recognizes that the health of people is closely connected to the health of animals and our shared environment.