The Institute for Human-Animal Connection is excited to share its most recent publication: Measuring the One Health impacts associated with creating access to veterinary care before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. You can access and download a copy for FREE at this link: Frontiers | Measuring the One Health impacts associated with creating access to veterinary care before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
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| Frontiers | Measuring the One Health impacts associated with creating access to veterinary care before and during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| Institute for Human-Animal Connection, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, Denver, CO, United States Pets for Life, The Humane Society of the United States, Washington, DC, United States Integrating community perceptions into One Health assessments is critical to understanding the structural barriers that create disproportionate health outcomes for community members, their pets, and the ecosystems that encompass them, particularly in historically marginalized and under-resourced communities. |
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This Pets for Life One Health Study was the first to explore how access to pet-supportive care affects community-wide health within the One Health framework. While the COVID-19 pandemic complicated data collection and analysis across this four-year study, pre-pandemic findings support the ability of access to care programming to positively affect perceptions of overall community health and perceptions of access to human health care and the environment in an urban setting. Throughout all four years of this study, both Pets for Life and the COVID-19 public health mandates were associated with more positive perceptions of environmental health. This study offers insight into the One Health impacts of both focused access to care programming and the COVID-19 pandemic while identifying potential intervention points for mitigating future pandemic effects on people and their pets in under-resourced communities.
We appreciate your feedback and are happy to answer any questions about the study and its findings!
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Kaleigh O'Reilly
Research Fellow
Institute for Human-Animal Connection
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