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de Leeuw E, Kickbusch I, Rüegg SR. A health promotion perspective on One Health. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH = REVUE CANADIENNE DE SANTE PUBLIQUE 2024; 115:271-275. [PMID: 38478217 PMCID: PMC11006651 DOI: 10.17269/s41997-024-00872-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 01/12/2024] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
Abstract
The One Health concept has acquired increasing attention due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue for a health promotion perspective that frames One Health in terms of positive health for people, animals, and ecosystems and includes a spiritual-cosmological dimension. This would enhance policy, research, and practice across disciplines and sectors for a more resilient and harmonious planet.
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- Evelyne de Leeuw
- ESPUM, École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
- University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- WHO European Regional Office Technical Advisory Group One Health, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- WHO European Regional Office Technical Advisory Group One Health, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Le Grand-Saconnex, Switzerland
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- WHO European Regional Office Technical Advisory Group One Health, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Bashkin O, Otok R, Leighton L, Czabanowska K, Barach P, Davidovitch N, Dopelt K, Duplaga M, Okenwa Emegwa L, MacLeod F, Neumark Y, Raz MP, Tulchinsky T, Mor Z. Emerging lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic about the decisive competencies needed for the public health workforce: A qualitative study. Front Public Health 2022; 10:990353. [PMID: 36117595 PMCID: PMC9479633 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.990353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2022] [Accepted: 08/12/2022] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The global COVID-19 crisis exposed the critical need for a highly qualified public health workforce. This qualitative research aimed to examine public health workforce competencies needed to face COVID-19 challenges and identify the gaps between training programs and the competency demands of real-world disasters and pandemics. Through a sample of thirty-one participant qualitative interviews, we examined the perspectives of diverse stakeholders from lead public health organizations in Israel. Grounded Theory was used to analyze the data. Six themes emerged from the content analysis: public health workforce's low professional status and the uncertain future of the public health workforce; links between the community and Higher Education institutions; the centrality of communication competencies; need to improve health promotion; the role of leadership, management, and partnership, and innovation in public health coherence. Increasing the attractiveness of the profession, professional and financial support, and improving the working conditions to ensure a sustainable and resilient PH system were deemed necessary. This paper describes and cultivates new knowledge and leadership skills among public health professionals, and lays the groundwork for future public health leadership preparedness programs.
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- Osnat Bashkin
- Department of Public Health, Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon, Israel
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- The Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), Brussels, Belgium
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- The Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of International Health, Care and Public Health Research Institute CAPHRI, Faculty of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- College of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
- College of Population Health, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel
- The Israeli Association of Public Health Physicians (IPAPH), Israeli Medical Association, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- Department of Public Health, Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon, Israel
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Health Promotion and e-Health, Institute of Public Health, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Health Sciences, The Swedish Red Cross University College (SRCUC), Huddinge, Sweden
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- School of Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Public Health, Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon, Israel
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Sindall C, Lo S, Capon T. Governance for the well-being of future generations. J Paediatr Child Health 2021; 57:1749-1753. [PMID: 34792232 DOI: 10.1111/jpc.15813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2021] [Accepted: 10/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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There is overwhelming evidence that human lifestyles have impacted the earth's planetary boundaries, with profound impacts for generations to come. Without concerted action to shape a better future, children will bear the burden on their health and well-being throughout their lifetimes. Yet government priorities are frequently dominated by short-term concerns, and an over-reliance on economic indicators as a measure of human progress. To give today's - and tomorrow's - children the best chance of leading flourishing lives, a new approach is needed, which overcomes the 'presentist' bias in political decision-making and values measures of well-being beyond gross domestic product (GDP). The potential building blocks of such an approach can be seen in the promising early steps being taken by several countries, including Wales and New Zealand. This paper provides an overview of these efforts in the context of the recommendations of the WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission report 'A future for the world's children'.
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- Colin Sindall
- Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Australian Global Health Alliance, The Nossal Institute for Global Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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