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The ocean and microplastics: a One Health approach

This paper examines ocean microplastic pollution through a One Health framework, connecting marine ecosystem contamination to animal and human health impacts by tracing microplastic pathways from ocean sources through food webs to human exposure. The approach integrates ecological, veterinary, and public health perspectives to argue for a unified response to microplastic pollution as a cross-cutting environmental health challenge.

2022 SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository
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A One Health Approach to Marine Health

This paper applies the One Health framework — which integrates human, animal, and environmental health — to the challenge of protecting marine ecosystems from climate change, plastic pollution, and overfishing. The authors argue that addressing ocean health requires interdisciplinary collaboration between public health, environmental science, and policy sectors.

2020 JMU Scholoraly Commons (James Madison University) 1 citations
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Tackling the microplastics pandemic: the CLEAN framework as an integrated one health approach for global environmental and public health

This paper introduces the CLEAN framework as an integrated One Health approach for addressing microplastic pollution across environmental, animal, and human health domains. Researchers argue that current responses to microplastic contamination are fragmented and propose a systematic risk assessment and prevention strategy analogous to occupational health management. The framework aims to bridge gaps between environmental science, public health policy, and community-level action on microplastic exposure.

2026 Green Technology Resilience and Sustainability
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A review on effects of microplastics on animal, environment and human health considering One Health perspective

This review examines the effects of microplastics on animal, environmental, and human health from a One Health perspective, highlighting how microplastic contamination interconnects ecological, animal, and human health systems.

2023 Journal of the geological society of Korea 9 citations
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One Health

This editorial introduces a journal issue focused on the One Health framework, which recognizes the interconnection between human, animal, and ecosystem health, and highlights how environmental pollutants including microplastics are increasingly central to One Health concerns.

2025 The Biochemist
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A One Health perspective on water contaminants

This review applied the One Health framework to water contaminants including microplastics, pathogens, and agrochemicals, emphasizing the interconnected impacts of water pollution on human, animal, and environmental health.

2022 Water Emerging Contaminants & Nanoplastics 21 citations
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Environmental pollution and One Health: An integrated threat to global health

This review examines environmental pollution through the One Health framework, which recognizes the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health. Researchers found that pollutants including heavy metals, microplastics, and chemical contaminants circulate continuously between ecosystems, animals, and human populations, creating cascading health effects. The study calls for integrated, cross-disciplinary approaches to address pollution as a shared threat across all domains of health.

2026 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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The One Health Concept

This article explains the One Health concept, which recognizes that human health, animal health, and environmental health are deeply interconnected. Environmental threats like pollution, including microplastic contamination, affect all three domains simultaneously. The framework is relevant to understanding microplastic risks because plastics move through ecosystems, accumulate in animals, and ultimately reach humans through the food chain and environment.

2024 British Journal of Biomedical Science 120 citations
Commentary Tier 3

Editorial: Aquatic one health — the intersection of marine wildlife health, public health, and our oceans

This editorial introduces a research collection on aquatic one health, examining the intersection of marine wildlife health, public health, and ocean ecosystem integrity, and calling for integrated approaches that connect human, animal, and environmental health across ocean-linked systems.

2023 Frontiers in Marine Science 4 citations
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One Health in Coastal and Marine Contexts: A Critical Bibliometric Analysis across Environmental, Animal, and Human Health Dimensions

This bibliometric analysis examined how the One Health framework has been applied to coastal and marine ecosystems, mapping intersections between human, animal, and environmental health research. It identified microplastics, aquaculture contaminants, and zoonotic pathogens as key topics and found that integrated coastal health research remains fragmented.

2025 OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)
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Aligning Ocean Plastic Pollution and Human Health a Co-benefits Approach

This paper proposes a co-benefits approach to aligning ocean plastic pollution policy with human health outcomes, arguing that reducing plastic in the environment would simultaneously benefit marine ecosystems and human wellbeing. It calls for stronger integration of environmental and health frameworks in policy decisions.

2019 Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics 5 citations
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Plastic effects on marine and freshwater environments

Researchers reviewed current literature on how plastic pollution harms marine and freshwater environments, finding that microplastics have become a primary concern across studies covering animal health, human health, and ecosystem impacts. A key gap identified is the lack of clear connections linking plastic effects across these three domains — environment, wildlife, and human health — into a unified understanding.

2023 Water Biology and Security 12 citations
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Plastic Not-So-Fantastic: A One Health Approach to a Growing Crisis

This One Health perspective reviews how microplastics affect environmental, animal, and human health, synthesizing evidence that these particles disrupt ecosystems and accumulate in tissues across species, underscoring the need for an integrated response.

2025 The Biochemist
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Time to integrate “One Health Approach” into nanoplastic research

This commentary argues that nanoplastic research needs to adopt a "One Health" framework that considers the health of humans, animals, and ecosystems as deeply interconnected rather than studying each in isolation. Applying this approach could lead to more comprehensive and actionable findings about how nanoplastics affect living systems across scales.

2023 Eco-Environment & Health 23 citations
Systematic Review Tier 1

Invisible Contamination: a One Health Perspective on Micro and Nanoplastics

This systematic review takes a One Health approach to examine how micro- and nanoplastics affect humans, animals, and the environment as interconnected systems. The research shows that plastics accumulate across food chains and can cause toxic effects in multiple species, including humans. The One Health perspective is important because it recognizes that microplastic pollution in the environment inevitably becomes a human health problem.

2025 Revista de Gestão Social e Ambiental
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A One Health perspective of the impacts of microplastics on animal, human and environmental health

This review takes a "One Health" approach to microplastics, examining how they affect animal health, human health, and the environment as interconnected systems. The authors caution that many lab studies use microplastic concentrations far higher than what is found in nature, making their results hard to apply to real-world risk. However, they note that microplastics can indirectly affect human health by disrupting ecosystems and soil processes that support food production and clean water.

2021 The Science of The Total Environment 324 citations
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Die Bedeutung der Konzepte One Health und Planetary Health für die Umweltmedizin im 21. Jahrhundert

This review examined how One Health and Planetary Health frameworks are essential for 21st-century environmental medicine, emphasizing the interconnected threats from chemical pollutants, microplastics, and climate change to both human and ecosystem health.

2023 Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz 11 citations
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Sustaining Life: Human Health–Planetary Health Linkages

This chapter introduces the Planetary Health framework, which treats human and environmental health as inseparable, using examples like climate change, chemical contamination, and biodiversity loss. Microplastic pollution fits within this framework as a chemical contamination threat that simultaneously harms ecosystems and human health.

2020 10 citations
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A Strategic Framework for Community Engagement in Oceans and Human Health

This paper presents a strategic framework for community engagement in the Oceans and Human Health field, reviewing how participatory research approaches can connect coastal communities with scientists to address marine environmental threats including plastic pollution. The framework emphasizes co-production of knowledge as essential for translating ocean health research into effective public health responses.

2022 Community Science 10 citations
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Impact of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) on the marine environment: Raising awareness, challenges, legislation, and mitigation approaches under the One Health concept

This review examines how PFAS (per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances), often called 'forever chemicals,' are contaminating marine environments and interacting with other pollutants including microplastics. PFAS accumulate in marine food chains and can combine with microplastics to amplify toxic effects on ocean wildlife and ultimately human health through seafood consumption. The authors call for stronger regulations and cleanup strategies under a One Health approach that connects ocean, animal, and human well-being.

2023 Marine Pollution Bulletin 76 citations
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Environmental pollution and One Health: An integrated threat to global health

This review examines environmental pollution through the One Health lens, exploring how chemical contaminants, biological agents, and physical pollutants move between ecosystems, animals, and human populations. Researchers highlight that pollutants such as heavy metals, microplastics, and persistent organic compounds accumulate through food chains and disrupt biological systems across species. The study emphasizes that addressing pollution effectively requires coordinated approaches spanning human medicine, veterinary science, and environmental management.

2026 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Microplastics: A One Health priority agenda

This commentary argues that microplastics should be treated as a One Health priority requiring interdisciplinary action, given that particles are found in all environmental sectors and pose simultaneous risks to crops, animals, wildlife, and humans.

2024 One Health Bulletin 1 citations
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One Health in allergology: A concept that connects humans, animals, plants, and the environment

This review applies the One Health framework to allergology, arguing that the increasing prevalence of allergic diseases reflects interconnections between human, animal, and environmental health, with environmental contaminants including microplastics among the discussed contributing factors.

2021 Allergy 17 citations
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Ocean governance for human health and the role of the social sciences

This paper examines the interdependence of ocean health and human health, arguing that effective ocean governance must involve the social sciences to address the complex human behaviors and institutions driving marine degradation. Managing plastic pollution entering the ocean requires governance frameworks that integrate scientific and social knowledge.

2018 The Lancet Planetary Health 4 citations