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Companion Animals and Human Health: An Overview

Author(s) -

A. T. B. Edney

Publication year - 1995

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107689508801220

Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , companion animal , animal welfare , pet therapy , medicine , internet privacy , computer science , veterinary medicine , biology , ecology , artificial intelligence

Domestic animals share our environment in a variety of ways. One of these ways is as companions in and around our homes. Although a wide variety of species are kept in households for this purpose, the great majority are dogs and cats. Sharing our environment with such animals has a profound effect on the health of the humans concerned. As keeping companion animals is a very widespread activity, about 50% of all households in the Western world have some sort of animal, the effects are far reaching.

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