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One health approach in Nepal: Scope, opportunities and challenges
One Health (OH) is a collaborative effort to attain optimal health for people, animals and the environment. The concept of OH is still in its infancy in Nepal but is increasingly growing. The Government of Nepal (GoN) has taken some initiatives to tackle burgeoning problems such as antimicrobial res...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6715885/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31485475 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2019.100101 |
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author | Acharya, Krishna Prasad Karki, Surendra Shrestha, Kshitiz Kaphle, Krishna |
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description | One Health (OH) is a collaborative effort to attain optimal health for people, animals and the environment. The concept of OH is still in its infancy in Nepal but is increasingly growing. The Government of Nepal (GoN) has taken some initiatives to tackle burgeoning problems such as antimicrobial resistance, highly pathogenic avian influenza and rabies using OH approach but there are several challenges at the level of implementation. Few non-governmental organizations support GoN to promote an OH approach. The major bottlenecks in implementing OH in Nepal include poor organizational structure to support OH, absence of a legal framework to implement OH, poor coordination among different governmental agencies, insufficient technical expertise, poor data sharing mechanism across sectors, limited budget and poor understanding at political level. We encourage GoN to address these gaps and prioritize the health problems where OH approach would give the best outcome. Institutional and legal frameworks need to be created to effectively implement an OH approach in Nepal. Increasing awareness among policy makers including political leadership and increasing regular government budget for OH activities would be helpful to promote OH in Nepal. |
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spelling | pubmed-67158852019-09-04 One health approach in Nepal: Scope, opportunities and challenges Acharya, Krishna Prasad Karki, Surendra Shrestha, Kshitiz Kaphle, Krishna One Health Short Communication One Health (OH) is a collaborative effort to attain optimal health for people, animals and the environment. The concept of OH is still in its infancy in Nepal but is increasingly growing. The Government of Nepal (GoN) has taken some initiatives to tackle burgeoning problems such as antimicrobial resistance, highly pathogenic avian influenza and rabies using OH approach but there are several challenges at the level of implementation. Few non-governmental organizations support GoN to promote an OH approach. The major bottlenecks in implementing OH in Nepal include poor organizational structure to support OH, absence of a legal framework to implement OH, poor coordination among different governmental agencies, insufficient technical expertise, poor data sharing mechanism across sectors, limited budget and poor understanding at political level. We encourage GoN to address these gaps and prioritize the health problems where OH approach would give the best outcome. Institutional and legal frameworks need to be created to effectively implement an OH approach in Nepal. Increasing awareness among policy makers including political leadership and increasing regular government budget for OH activities would be helpful to promote OH in Nepal. Elsevier 2019-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6715885/ /pubmed/31485475 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2019.100101 Text en © 2019 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Short Communication Acharya, Krishna Prasad Karki, Surendra Shrestha, Kshitiz Kaphle, Krishna One health approach in Nepal: Scope, opportunities and challenges |
title | One health approach in Nepal: Scope, opportunities and challenges |
title_full | One health approach in Nepal: Scope, opportunities and challenges |
title_fullStr | One health approach in Nepal: Scope, opportunities and challenges |
title_full_unstemmed | One health approach in Nepal: Scope, opportunities and challenges |
title_short | One health approach in Nepal: Scope, opportunities and challenges |
title_sort | one health approach in nepal: scope, opportunities and challenges |
topic | Short Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6715885/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31485475 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2019.100101 |
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