Editorial: How animals affect us: examining the influence of human-animal interactions on human's health

Fernando Capela E Silva; Emily Kieson; Alexandra N Stergiou; Inês Pereira-Figueiredo

doi:10.3389/fvets.2024.1509960

Editorial: How animals affect us: examining the influence of human-animal interactions on human's health

Front Vet Sci. 2024 Nov 8:11:1509960. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2024.1509960. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Fernando Capela E Silva¹, Emily Kieson², Alexandra N Stergiou³, Inês Pereira-Figueiredo⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical and Health Sciences, School of Health and Human Development, MED - Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development and CHANGE - Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Institute for Advanced Studies and Research, University of Évora, Evora, Portugal.
² Equine International Corp., Boston, MA, United States.
³ Department of Early Years Learning and Care, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
⁴ TheKidsFellows, Research Group in Anthrozoology, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal.

No abstract available

Keywords: Animal Assisted Interventions (AAI); Animal Assisted Therapy/Activity (AAT/A); Human-Animal Interactions (HAI); anthrozoology; human health.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Part of this work was funded by National Funds through FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology under the Project UIDB/05183/2020.