One Health concept: Viewed by Chinese traditional philosophy from a millennial history

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Abstract “One Health” has increasingly been accepted as a contemporary theoretical framework to target complex health issues. Historical documents and original records from China’s history can provide important perspectives on how Chinese traditional philosophy dealt with the harmonious relationship between humans, animals, plants, and the environment in the millennial years of civilization. In this commentary, we also presented the active engagements of Chinese scholars in promoting “One Health” and “One Health Action” in China to build a community with a shared future for mankind. One Health Impact Statement One Health Impact StatementHistorical documents and original records from China’s history can help us learn how Chinese traditional philosophy has dealt with the harmonious relationship between human, animal, plants and the environment in the thousands of years of civilization. In this commentary, we make an in-depth elaboration on the Chinese meaning of the concept of “One Health” which has been translated into “全健康” in Chinese, meaning as holistic health, based on the history and culture in China, so as to promote “One Health” to play a greater role in building a “community with a shared future for mankind”. China should take a global perspective, pivoting on the “Healthy China” strategy, based on the three interaction fields of “human, animal and environment”, and continuously improve the capabilities in the fields of public health and “One Health” to face the emerging challenge.