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Policies On Pets For Healthy Cities: A Conceptual Framework, Melanie Rock, Cindy L. Adams, Christopher J. Degeling, Alessandro Massolo, Gavin Mccormack Jan 2015

Policies On Pets For Healthy Cities: A Conceptual Framework, Melanie Rock, Cindy L. Adams, Christopher J. Degeling, Alessandro Massolo, Gavin Mccormack

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Drawing on the One Health concept, and integrating a dual focus on public policy and practices of caring from the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, we outline a conceptual framework to help guide the development and assessment of local governments' policies on pets. This framework emphasizes well-being in human populations, while recognizing that these outcomes relate to the well-being of nonhuman animals. Five intersecting spheres of activity, each associated with local governments' jurisdiction over pets, are presented: (i) preventing threats and nuisances from pets, (ii) meeting pets' emotional and physical needs, (iii) procuring pets ethically, (iv) providing pets with veterinary …


Policies And Politics Of Changing The Food Label, Heather Yeatman, Michael Moore Jan 2014

Policies And Politics Of Changing The Food Label, Heather Yeatman, Michael Moore

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

This is a poster abstract from the 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health hosted by the Korean Public Health Association on April 10-11, 2014.