IMPORTANCE OF COLLABORATION BETWEEN PHYSICIANS AND VETERINARIANS IN ONE HEALTH CONCEPT

Abstract

Human medicine and veterinary medicine are two areas within medical sciences and there are great opportunities and needs to connect them more closely, especially in the treatment of humans and animals. One health promotes cooperation and connection between physicians and veterinarians, but also environmental experts and other professionals who are important for health. Some experts believe that the progress of this cooperation would be achieve by the education of patients and animal owners about zoonotic diseases of their pets, which should be carried out by physicians and veterinarians. One health has the task of helping the physicians to recognize that a certain disease is not exclusively related to human medicine, but to point out that veterinarians also encounter this disease. Better and closer cooperation between physicians and veterinarians would contribute to both professions to better recognize and treat certain human and animal diseases and prevent and reduce the negative impact of the environment on human and animal health. By introducing the concept of One Health, there are opportunities for better cooperation and mutual work, but at the moment there is still a distance between these two professions. A large number of experts deal with this problem all over the world, and it is considered that a strategy should be made which would eliminate this problem and also contribute to the promotion of the One Health concept. The importance of cooperation between physicians and veterinarians is great, and, nowadays, the contribution of new scientific knowledge on the examples of different species represents a great challenge for science.