How can One Health approaches be operationalized in order to enable action to reduce or prevent AMR?

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health threat to humanity, animals, plants and the wider environment. The intrinsic complexity and interconnectivity of human, animal and environmental factors has now been globally acknowledged and warrants a One Health approach. International communities launched guidelines to support the development and implementation of comprehensive national One Health (OH) AMR strategies with a particular concern for threatened antibiotics. Yet, AMR National Action Plans have proven difficult to implement because of social and structural obstacles/barriers, which are well-known as OH challenges (Keune, Payyappallimana, Morand and Rüegg 2022) such as overcoming inter-sectorial and interdisciplinary barriers, taking into account structural societal dynamics, implementing transdisciplinary system’s approaches. To enhance necessary transformative system changes, it is vital to operationalize and contextualize One Health AMR approaches for the design, implementation and evaluation of community-based AMR interventions, tailored to the local circumstances.

Publication year:2023

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