Conservation medicine

Conservation medicine is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that studies the relationship between human and non-human animal health and environmental conditions.

[6] As of 2023, up to 70% of emerging infectious diseases (EID) originate from animals,[7] which has brought the concept of conservation medicine to the forefront of current ideas in healthcare.

The domesticated animal then enters the human food chain and infects people, and a new health threat emerges.

Since the emergence of the idea of conservation medicine, many human physicians and veterinarians have adopted the initiative titled One Health.

[14] Looking at the environment and health together, conservation medicine has the potential to effect rapid change in public opinion on complex societal issues, by making the distant and ill-defined, local and pressing.

For instance, global warming may vaguely define long-term impacts, but an immediate effect may be a relatively slight rise in air temperature.