Planetary health and healthcare workers

In this chapter, there is a description of the link between planetary health and healthcare workers. The Planetary Health Alliance (PHA) is a consortium of over 240 universities, non governmental organizations, research insti tutes, and government bodies from more than 40 countries in the world, whose aim is to understand global climate and environmental change and the impact on population health. The Planetary Health for Physicians is an initiative that aims to infuence health profes sionals to help them understand the effects of global environmental change on patients and increase education and information available on this issue. Moreover, the One Health is presented as a worldwide strategy to increase inter-sectorial collaborations in all aspects of healthcare for humans, animals, and the environment, with the aim to “forge co-equal,” all-inclusive collaborations among physicians, veterinarians, nurses, and other scientifc health and environ mentally related disciplines. Finally, the chapter ends with a systematic review, conducted to summarize the results of all the studies that focused on the collaborations between human medicine and veterinary medicine in Europe with the aim to protect human–animal–environmental health. Literature searches were performed using PubMed and Scopus databases. Forty-Seven articles containing the word One Health were retrieved. The main domains showing integrated approaches were: (a) zoonosis, (b) vac cines, (c) antibiotic resistance, (d) implementations of professional network. The historical background of One Health was con sistent with the joint actions and fair collabo ration among human, veterinarian, and environmental institutions. In particular, 21 papers deal with accomplished interventions within the One Health approach; 23 articles relate to potential/desirable future collabora tion; 3 articles describe historical aspects of the One Health. Although an increasing atten tion has been recently paid to One Health pro gram, many European countries show lack of cooperation among different sectors. Creating a specifc founding system for One Health ini tiatives could help to overcome all the barriers with the aim of a multidisciplinary European attitude.