PAE Well-being Archive

Sep 30, 2020 WellBeing International Studies Repository – Providing Access to Useful Data and Important Studies

Posted at 13:56h In Articles, Democratizing Information, Letter from the President, PAE Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In 2020, there were reportedly over 5 billion unique mobile phone users worldwide (two-thirds of the world’s total population). Of these, 2.9 billion are using smartphones. These numbers translate to the growing availability of an extraordinary global marketplace for ideas and influence. Every smartphone user...

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Jun 02, 2020 Pets and Coronavirus: An Update

Posted at 05:16h In Animals in Our World, PAE Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In the last WellBeing News (Issue 2:4), we ran a short item on pets and the coronavirus. We would like to draw readers’ attention to an excellent new review of all the studies to date that have looked at the potential for pets to catch...

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May 15, 2020 Going Beyond Symptomatic Treatment: Adopting One Health in India

Posted at 05:34h In Articles, Global Awareness, PAE Well-being, Tales of WellBeing - By Naveen Pandey, MVetSci

The advent of a mild winter was in the air around Kaziranga National Park, a UNESCO world heritage site nestled in the north-eastern corner of India. The mighty Brahmaputra River was returning to its normal course of flow after a massive episode of annual flooding....

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Apr 30, 2020 Time to Act Now – Why Compassion Counts

Posted at 13:49h In Articles, Global Awareness, PAE Well-being, WellBeing News - By Jill Robinson, MBE, Founder and CEO, Animals Asia

As the number of people tragically succumbing to Covid-19 grows across the world, we are left reeling with the terrible consequences of our actions and of our ongoing disregard of animal cruelty and hygiene in the live animal markets of Asia and across the world....

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Apr 16, 2020 “Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic” by David Quammen

Posted at 09:51h In Book Review, Global Awareness, PAE Well-being - By David Quammen

Reviewed by Andrew Rowan -  This book by science writer and journalist David Quammen about pandemic threats to humans arising from animal pathogens (zoonotic) was first published in 2012, eight years before the current coronavirus pandemic that appears to come from bats, possibly with a...

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Apr 16, 2020 Companion Animals and Mental Health

Posted at 09:30h In Animals in Our World, Articles, PAE Well-being, Tales of WellBeing - By Alan E. Kazdin, PhD

Introduction to Promoting Well-Being: Human-Animal Interaction to Improve Mental and Physical Health and the Quality of Life by Alan E. Kazdin, PhD by Andrew Rowan, DPhil As the world negotiates its interactions with and responses to an emergent coronavirus, it seems like an appropriate time for WBI...

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Mar 31, 2020 The Context for the Coronavirus Pandemic

Posted at 13:31h In Animals in Our World, Articles, PAE Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

At the beginning of this century, a review paper (Daszak et al, 2000) highlighted the importance of the consumption of wildlife as a major source of a series of dangerous new “emerging” pathogens. The most well-known of these is the AIDS virus that was first recognized...

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Mar 28, 2020 The State of Well-Being

Posted at 09:48h In Articles, Feel Better, Letter from the President, PAE Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In February 2019, Wellbeing News carried an article discussing ideas relating to the state of well-being of People, Animals and the Environment. This article was followed by an item on the United Nations’ World Happiness Report in Tales of WellBeing. The World Happiness Report is issued...

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Jan 29, 2020 Australian Fires & Climate Change

Posted at 09:41h In Articles, Conflicts & Disasters, Letter from the President, PAE Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

For the past two months, the news has been full of stories about the fires in Australia. Australia has always had to deal with fires but recently they have been different in both magnitude and intensity. To date, with at least six weeks of fire...

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Jan 29, 2020 Australian Bushfires – Hell on Earth for People, but especially for Wildlife

Posted at 07:52h In Articles, Conflicts & Disasters, PAE Well-being, WellBeing News - By Michael Kennedy, AM

The Federal Government in Australia was warned by a group of ex-fire chiefs early in 2019 that the country was facing a potential fire disaster scenario that was in part due to the ongoing and significant effects of climate change. The group asked for a...

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