The Institute for Human-Animal Connection is excited to share its newest 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 the article 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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| 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 of its kind to explore how access to care programming affects community-wide health within the One Health framework. While the COVID-19 pandemic complicated the initial study design, the pre-pandemic findings support the ability of access to care programming to positively affect perceptions of overall community health and access to human healthcare and the environment in an urban setting. Throughout all four years of the study, the environmental health domain measured by the OHCA captured positive changes associated with both PFL and COVID-19 pandemic public health mandates. This study offers insight into both the impacts of focused access to care programming on a community's overall perceptions of One Health, and it provides insight into the One Health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic while identifying potential intervention points for mitigating future pandemic effects on people and their pets in under-resourced areas.
We look forward to receiving your feedback and are happy to answer any questions regarding the study and its findings!
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Kaleigh O'Reilly
Research Fellow
Institute for Human-Animal Connection
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