Aguirre A A, Gómez A
Conservation Medicine Programme, Wildlife Trust, 460 West 34th Street 17th Floor, New York, New York 10001, USA.
Rev Sci Tech. 2009 Aug;28(2):597-603. doi: 10.20506/rst.28.2.1902.
Conservation medicine is an emerging discipline that links human and animal health with ecosystem health and global environmental change. The biosphere is threatened by several pervasive and synergistic phenomena that are the result of increasing human pressures on the planet: climate change, biological impoverishment (loss of biodiversity and ecological processes), emerging infectious diseases ('pathogen pollution') and global 'toxification' (pollutants such as endocrine-disrupting chemicals). These factors are working in concert to diminish human, domestic animal, wildlife and environmental health on this planet. By including conservation medicine and ecosystem health into veterinary curricula worldwide we can train young veterinarians that will help change paradigms and be able to form transdisciplinary teams. These veterinary professionals will develop new tools for assessing and monitoring ecological health and will be prepared to fulfil critical roles in sustaining global ecological health.
保护医学是一门新兴学科,它将人类和动物健康与生态系统健康及全球环境变化联系起来。生物圈受到几种普遍且协同作用的现象的威胁,这些现象是人类对地球压力不断增加的结果:气候变化、生物匮乏(生物多样性和生态过程丧失)、新发传染病(“病原体污染”)以及全球“中毒”(如内分泌干扰化学物质等污染物)。这些因素共同作用,正在损害地球上人类、家畜、野生动物和环境的健康。通过将保护医学和生态系统健康纳入全球兽医课程,我们可以培养年轻的兽医,他们将有助于改变范式,并能够组建跨学科团队。这些兽医专业人员将开发评估和监测生态健康的新工具,并准备好在维持全球生态健康方面发挥关键作用。