Las redes SAPUVET y SPVet: un modelo de integración en materia de salud pública veterinaria entre Europa y América Latina The SAPUVET and SPVet networks: an integration model in veterinary public health between Europe and Latin America

• Main Authors: Carmelo Ortega, Luis Carlos Villamil, Natalia Cediel, Carla Rosenfeld, Daniele de Meneghi, Mauro de Rosa, Leopoldo Estol, Guillermo Lleguia, Adolfo Fonseca-Poveda, Miguel Torres, Magaly Caballero-Castillo, Katinka de Balogh
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2005
• Subjects: salud pública; medicina veterinaria; zoonosis; emergencias; bienestar animal; public health; veterinary medicine; zoonoses; emergencies; animal welfare; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Human health
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/1a5eb1230c1a4e98b66f55a85581ed70

This paper underscores the need for animal health professionals to play a more significant role in the sphere of public health, particularly during natural disasters and other emergency situations which can reduce the availability of safe foods from animal sources. In order to help readers understand the importance of the emerging field of veterinary public health (VPH), the authors review the importance and current status of VPH in different countries and assess the role that veterinarians can play in overcoming situations that threaten human health. The last section discusses the need for training veterinarians in VPH and the important role that veterinarians can play within international public health organizations and multidisciplinary groups, such as SAPUVET and SPVet networks.