FLOYD COUNTY: ONE HEALTHY COMMUNITY
SAVE THE DATE: Saturday April 29 at Floyd County High School
This year's Floyd County Community Health Fair encompasses more than just learning about your blood pressure meds. The hope is to address all aspects of community wellness.
The notion of health that encompasses all living things within a community recognizes that the health of any one individual is affected by the health of our shared environment and the viability of the habitats of other creatures who live in our soil and water, forests and fields.
So this year's upcoming fair on April 29 represents a local subset of the larger One Health/One Medicine understanding, and includes community wellness in relationship to our shared natural environment.
So if you haven’t already, let the organizers know you’re coming by checking in at Floyd County Community Health Fair or email Partnership for Floyd for more information.
And there are $30 booth spaces left for vendors but Act NOW!
🍎 THE ROOTS OF ONE HEALTH
The One Health/One Medicine idea has distant beginnings extending into the modern era. Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), father of cellular pathology, coined the term "zoonosis" in awareness of the infectious disease links between animal and human health.
The concept of One Health has gained traction as human activity brings people and native animals into contact to share parasites, fungi, bacteria and viruses that can lead to pandemics all to well known in the young 21st century.
The modern concept was put forward officially by the Wildlife Conservation Society at a symposium in New York in 2004. The One Health Commission was chartered in 2009. That same year, CDC established its One Health Office and has an informative page where this concept is explained.
The Charter of the One Health Commission is to ‘Educate’ and ‘Create’ networks to improve health outcomes and well-being of humans, animals and plants and to promote environmental resilience through a collaborative, Global, One Health approach.
One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognizes the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and inter-dependent.
The approach mobilizes multiple sectors, disciplines and communities at varying levels of society to work together to foster well-being and tackle threats to health and ecosystems, while addressing the collective need for clean water, energy and air, safe and nutritious food, taking action on climate changes and contributing to sustainable development. - cdc
This interdisciplinary cooperation is an encouraging step towards well-being and the common good in an increasingly complex world. The contributions of foresters and soil scientists, meteorologists and veterinarians, public health professionals, pharmacologists and pastors are all needed in concert to stand against the many risks to our personal and community health in both hemispheres of an increasingly small planet.
I hope you’ll take this opportunity to be a part of Floyd County’s focus on all-health on April 29. See you there.