Evaluating One Health initiatives- principles, criteria and indicators

• Research unit: COST
• Project number: C16.0058

Key words (English)

transdisciplinarity; One Health; system theory; evaluation; metrics

Research programs (English)

COST-Action TD1404 - Network for Evaluation of One Health

Short description (English)

Recent outbreaks of infectious disease (e.g. Q-fever, Ebola, MERS), and other issues such as obesity, climate change and food insecurity call for an integrated approach to human, animal and environmental health. One Health (OH) integrates transdisciplinarity and systemic thinking to create synergies across sectors. Although OH promises better solutions than the classic single disciplinary approaches, methods and benchmarks for its evaluation are missing. The COST Action 'Network for Evaluation of OH' (NEOH) is developing a framework for evaluating OH. This requires the adaptation of methods from many fields that do not belong to classical health disciplines such as education, collective learning processes, data management, network science, etc. This project will review existing methods from these fields for applicability to the NEOH framework and identify existing methodological gaps. The metrics and indicators will be tested on case studies in OH surveillance in collaboration with the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS). The applicability and usefulness of the methods will be assessed, and the methods will be modified in an interative process. Finally, the updated framework will be validated on another set of ISOS case studies. To test suitability of the framework for OH policy initiatives, it will be applied to the current Swiss governmental strategy for antimicrobial resistances (StAR). Results will feed into improving the current NEOH framework.

Further information (English)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise: Universität Zürich Abteilung für Epidemiologie - Oberassistent Vetsuisse-Fakultät

Partners and International Organizations (English)

BE; BA; HR; DK; FR; MK; DE; EL; IE; IL; IT; MT; NL; NO; PT; RO; RS; SI; ES; SE; UK; AL

Abstract (English)

See short description

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: COST-DB of the State Secretariat for Education and Research Hallwylstrasse 4 CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland Tel. [phone] Swiss Project-Number: C16.0058