Assessing the Adoption of One Health Approaches in National Plans to Combat Health Threats: The Pilot of a One Health Conceptual Framework in Armenia

Autor: Alessia Milano, Claudia Robbiati, Silvia Declich, Paolo Calistri, Ombretta Pediconi, Laura Amato, Lusine Paronyan, Lilit Avetisyan, Arsen Manucharyan, Georgi Avetisyan, Tigran Yesayan, Arman Gevorgyan, Tigran Markosyan, Maria Grazia Dente
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, Vol 9, Iss 1, p 22 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2414-6366
DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed9010022
Popis: Due to several factors, such as environmental and climate changes, the risk of health threats originating at the human–animal–environment interface, including vector-borne diseases (VBDs) and zoonoses, is increasing. Low-resource settings struggle to counter these multidimensional risks due to their already-strained health systems and are therefore disproportionally affected by the impact caused by these changes. Systemic approaches like One Health (OH) are sought to strengthen prevention and preparedness strategies by addressing the drivers of potential threats with a multidisciplinary and multisectoral approach, considering the whole system at the human–animal–environment interface. The integration of OH in national plans can be challenging due to the lack of effective coordination and collaboration among different sectors. To support the process of knowledge coproduction about the level of OH integration in prevention and preparedness strategies against health threats in Armenia, a situation analysis was performed on Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever/virus and anthrax (identified by local stakeholders as priorities to be addressed with the OH approach), and actions to strengthen the national OH system were identified with the support of a OH conceptual framework. The study highlighted that multidisciplinary and multisectoral efforts towards prevention and preparedness against VBDs and zoonoses threats need to be strengthened in Armenia, and priority actions to integrate the OH approach were identified.
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