Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health presents the manifesto ‘Challenges of the 21st Century in Prevention, Welfare and Animal Health’. An analysis work, available in digital and printed format, that gathers the major issues related to animal prevention, welfare and health to ensure global health in the world. In addition, the initiative is intended to stimulate debate around the One Health approach.
According to Elena Gratacós, CEO of Boehringer Animal Health Spain, “Our company is committed to animals and with veterinarians, both in clinics and farms, with pet owners and with society in general. In this sense, we want to make a decisive contribution to innovation and to move forward in solving the challenges we face as a society in the field of human and animal health ”.
The manifesto is the result of an in-depth analysis carried out at a time of particular importance marked by the health crisis caused by the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The work has been prepared by a group of renowned specialists formed by Cristina Muñoz Madero, Joaquim Segalés Coma, José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno Rodríguez, Luis Ortega Mora, Luis Miguel Cebrián Yagüe and Pol Llonch Obiols.
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The aim of this initiative is to serve as a basis for launching initiatives, measures and commitments for improvement at the institutional and administrative levels “that contribute to animals and people living in a healthier world in this 21st century”, with the belief that only from the One Health perspective will it be possible to move “towards advanced and preventive global health care”.
The publication is structured in six sections developing the most pressing challenges related to veterinary and physician collaboration to prevent zoonoses, surveillance systems for early disease detection, vaccination and immunology, animal welfare. the rational use of antibiotics and the key role of the veterinarian in the development of the One Health approach in public health policy.