Padda Hannah, Niedbalski Amy, Tate Erin, Deem Sharon L
Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States.
Institute for Conservation Medicine, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, MO, United States.
Front Vet Sci. 2018 Feb 26;5:22. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2018.00022. eCollection 2018.
Zoological institutions play an important role in promoting the goals of the One Health movement. We launched the Institute for Conservation Medicine (ICM) at the Saint Louis Zoo in 2011 to advance the goals of One Health. In 2016, we distributed a survey to Zoo members to evaluate member awareness and understanding of One Health and to provide direction for future communication and actions from the ICM. We hypothesized that Zoo members would be aware of One Health and care about infectious disease issues. Survey results showed Zoo members primarily cared about chronic, non-infectious diseases and their associated economic costs, with participants ranking their top three health issues of concern for humans as nutrition/obesity/diet (49%), costs of health care (48%), and cancer (37%). Zoo members were interested in the roles of zoos in One Health and found them important, but were less aware of the Saint Louis Zoo's actions that did not directly relate to animal welfare. Only 6% of members had awareness of the term "One Health" and 16% were aware of the term "Conservation Medicine." These results suggest that zoos may do better to tailor One Health messaging to align with member interests. Messaging and programming from the Saint Louis Zoo will now include the direct benefits to human health that zoos offer, in addition to the ICM's more ecologically focused activities. This study offered valuable insight into how Zoo members view One Health and may serve as a template to help zoological institutions develop and promote One Health.
动物园机构在推动“同一健康”运动目标方面发挥着重要作用。2011年，我们在圣路易斯动物园成立了保护医学研究所（ICM），以推进“同一健康”目标。2016年，我们向动物园成员发放了一份调查问卷，以评估成员对“同一健康”的认识和理解，并为ICM未来的沟通和行动提供指导。我们假设动物园成员会了解“同一健康”并关心传染病问题。调查结果显示，动物园成员主要关心慢性非传染病及其相关经济成本，参与者将他们对人类最关注的三大健康问题列为营养/肥胖/饮食（49%）、医疗保健成本（48%）和癌症（37%）。动物园成员对动物园在“同一健康”中的作用感兴趣，并认为其很重要，但对圣路易斯动物园与动物福利无直接关联的行动了解较少。只有6%的成员知道“同一健康”这个术语，16%的成员知道“保护医学”这个术语。这些结果表明，动物园可能需要更好地调整“同一健康”信息，使其与成员的兴趣保持一致。除了ICM更关注生态的活动外，圣路易斯动物园的信息和项目现在还将包括动物园对人类健康的直接益处。这项研究为动物园成员如何看待“同一健康”提供了宝贵的见解，并可作为帮助动物园机构制定和推广“同一健康”的模板。
