Abstract
The One Health concept covers the interrelationship between human, animal and environmental health and requires multistakeholder collaboration across many cultural, disciplinary, institutional and sectoral boundaries. Yet, the implementation of the One Health approach appears hampered by shortcomings in the global framework for health governance. Knowledge integration approaches, at all stages of policy development, could help to address these shortcomings. The identification of key objectives, the resolving of trade-offs and the creation of a common vision and a common direction can be supported by multicriteria analyses. Evidence-based decision-making and transformation of observations into narratives detailing how situations emerge and might unfold in the future can be achieved by systems thinking. Finally, transdisciplinary approaches can be used both to improve the effectiveness of existing systems and to develop novel networks for collective action. To strengthen One Health governance, we propose that knowledge integration becomes a key feature of all stages in the development of related policies. We suggest several ways in which such integration could be promoted.
Highlights
The concept of One Health initially arose from integrated research on zoonoses,[1,2] but covers all of the interconnections between human, animal and environmental health
We believe that knowledge integration is both an integral element of successful One Health governance systems and a prerequisite for the effective implementation of the One Health approach
Systems thinking and transdisciplinary approaches mainly focus on different, crucial aspects of One Health governance, they are complementary and overlapping rather than mutually exclusive
Summary
The concept of One Health initially arose from integrated research on zoonoses,[1,2] but covers all of the interconnections between human, animal and environmental health.
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