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One Health gains momentum in Africa but room exists for improvement

OBJECTIVES: The degree of One-Healthiness of a system relates to the effectiveness of an institution to operate within the six main dimensions which identify to what extent it complies with One Health concept. This paper evaluates institutional compliance with One Health concept in 14 institutions f...

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Autores principales: Fasina, Folorunso O., Bett, Bernard, Dione, Michel, Mutua, Florence, Roesel, Kristina, Thomas, Lian, Kwoba, Emmah, Ayebazibwe, Chrisistom, Mtika, Nebart, Gebeyehu, Daniel T., Mtui-Malamsha, Niwael, Sambo, Maganga, Swai, Emmanuel S., Bebay, Charles
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Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9582571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36277101
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2022.100428
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author Fasina, Folorunso O.
Bett, Bernard
Dione, Michel
Mutua, Florence
Roesel, Kristina
Thomas, Lian
Kwoba, Emmah
Ayebazibwe, Chrisistom
Mtika, Nebart
Gebeyehu, Daniel T.
Mtui-Malamsha, Niwael
Sambo, Maganga
Swai, Emmanuel S.
Bebay, Charles
author_facet Fasina, Folorunso O.
Bett, Bernard
Dione, Michel
Mutua, Florence
Roesel, Kristina
Thomas, Lian
Kwoba, Emmah
Ayebazibwe, Chrisistom
Mtika, Nebart
Gebeyehu, Daniel T.
Mtui-Malamsha, Niwael
Sambo, Maganga
Swai, Emmanuel S.
Bebay, Charles
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description OBJECTIVES: The degree of One-Healthiness of a system relates to the effectiveness of an institution to operate within the six main dimensions which identify to what extent it complies with One Health concept. This paper evaluates institutional compliance with One Health concept in 14 institutions from eight African countries. METHODS: We utilised the adapted Network for the Evaluation of One Health (NEOH) tool. The institutions included six national One Health platforms and eight other institutions utilizing One Health approaches. Semi-quantitative evaluation of One Health platforms' competencies in six aspects/dimensions concerning One Health operations and infrastructure: Systems Thinking, Planning, Transdisciplinary working, Sharing, Learning and Systemic Organization, was conducted. RESULTS: The evaluation revealed that although all aspects of One Health scored above average, systemic organization and working in One Health were the strongest areas where tremendous gains had been made across the evaluated countries. The aspects of planning, sharing, learning, and thinking should be optimized to achieve gains emanating from One Health approaches in Africa. Cultural and social balance, and integrated health approach were the strongest areas under working and thinking respectively. Thinking was particularly challenged in areas of dimensions coverage and balance, while planning was challenged in the areas of capacity for detection, identification, monitoring of infectious diseases; biosafety and quality management; skills through taught and distance-learning programmes; information and communication technologies to support learning and skills through research apprenticeships. CONCLUSION: We conclude that although One Health has gained momentum in Africa, there still exists room for improvement. The revealed strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and gaps in One Health implementation provide an opportunity for prioritization and refocusing of efforts and resources to strengthen the identified weak areas.
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spelling pubmed-95825712022-10-21 One Health gains momentum in Africa but room exists for improvement Fasina, Folorunso O. Bett, Bernard Dione, Michel Mutua, Florence Roesel, Kristina Thomas, Lian Kwoba, Emmah Ayebazibwe, Chrisistom Mtika, Nebart Gebeyehu, Daniel T. Mtui-Malamsha, Niwael Sambo, Maganga Swai, Emmanuel S. Bebay, Charles One Health Research Paper OBJECTIVES: The degree of One-Healthiness of a system relates to the effectiveness of an institution to operate within the six main dimensions which identify to what extent it complies with One Health concept. This paper evaluates institutional compliance with One Health concept in 14 institutions from eight African countries. METHODS: We utilised the adapted Network for the Evaluation of One Health (NEOH) tool. The institutions included six national One Health platforms and eight other institutions utilizing One Health approaches. Semi-quantitative evaluation of One Health platforms' competencies in six aspects/dimensions concerning One Health operations and infrastructure: Systems Thinking, Planning, Transdisciplinary working, Sharing, Learning and Systemic Organization, was conducted. RESULTS: The evaluation revealed that although all aspects of One Health scored above average, systemic organization and working in One Health were the strongest areas where tremendous gains had been made across the evaluated countries. The aspects of planning, sharing, learning, and thinking should be optimized to achieve gains emanating from One Health approaches in Africa. Cultural and social balance, and integrated health approach were the strongest areas under working and thinking respectively. Thinking was particularly challenged in areas of dimensions coverage and balance, while planning was challenged in the areas of capacity for detection, identification, monitoring of infectious diseases; biosafety and quality management; skills through taught and distance-learning programmes; information and communication technologies to support learning and skills through research apprenticeships. CONCLUSION: We conclude that although One Health has gained momentum in Africa, there still exists room for improvement. The revealed strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and gaps in One Health implementation provide an opportunity for prioritization and refocusing of efforts and resources to strengthen the identified weak areas. Elsevier 2022-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9582571/ /pubmed/36277101 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2022.100428 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://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/).
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Fasina, Folorunso O.
Bett, Bernard
Dione, Michel
Mutua, Florence
Roesel, Kristina
Thomas, Lian
Kwoba, Emmah
Ayebazibwe, Chrisistom
Mtika, Nebart
Gebeyehu, Daniel T.
Mtui-Malamsha, Niwael
Sambo, Maganga
Swai, Emmanuel S.
Bebay, Charles
One Health gains momentum in Africa but room exists for improvement
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title_full_unstemmed One Health gains momentum in Africa but room exists for improvement
title_short One Health gains momentum in Africa but room exists for improvement
title_sort one health gains momentum in africa but room exists for improvement
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9582571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36277101
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2022.100428
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