Abstract
The One Health concept represents the inseparability of human, animal, and environmental health through a unified view of health care. This article addressed the topic of public health policies from the One Health perspective, demonstrating its inclusion in various health agendas such as emerging and reemerging infectious diseases, basic sanitation, mental health, chronic non-communicable diseases, interpersonal violence, and food safety. The results showed that the application of the One Health concept to the development and implementation of policies is associated with a growing need to involve transdisciplinary teams for solving complex problems to improve communication and to ensure the relevance and acceptability of public policies, thus guaranteeing governance. According to the principle of efficiency, the government must be aware of the evolution of technical knowledge and should use the One Health approach to improve the efficacy of already existing systems. We, therefore, conducted this review to contextualize current knowledge in this topic which is becoming an essential tool for public health policy-makers and practitioners around the world promoting a reflection on the importance of multiprofessional articulation in the implementation of intersectoral public health policies.
Highlights
Across the globe, we experience the rapid movement of individuals and products, an increasing demand for protein sources, habitat destruction, increased contact between humans and animals, climate change, and growing antimicrobial resistance, among other challenges that directly or indirectly influence health [1]
In 2008, the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations launched an initiative called “One World, One Health,” in which the term “One Health” was a concept suggested to demonstrate the inseparability of human, animal, and environmental health [2]
In view of the new challenges of the millennium, this article aims to address a review of the One Health concept, which is becoming an essential knowledge tool for public health policy-makers who seek strategies for more efficient public administration and better governance
Summary
We experience the rapid movement of individuals and products, an increasing demand for protein sources, habitat destruction, increased contact between humans and animals, climate change, and growing antimicrobial resistance, among other challenges that directly or indirectly influence health [1]. In 2008, the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations launched an initiative called “One World, One Health,” in which the term “One Health” was a concept suggested to demonstrate the inseparability of human, animal, and environmental health [2]. The United Nations recently stressed that intersectoral and multidisciplinary measures and a unified view of health care are critical to achieving the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development [3]. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http:// creativecommons.org/ publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated
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