Journal Article

Strengthening multi-sectoral collaboration on critical health issues: One Health Systems Mapping and Analysis Resource Toolkit (OH-SMART) for operationalizing One Health

Vesterinen, Heidi M., Prasarnphanich, Ong-Orn, Suwandono, Agus, Artama, Wayan T., Fauzi, Rama P., Pelican, Katharine M., Yulizar, Erinaldi, Errecaborde, Kaylee M., Macy, Katelyn W., Kassenborg, Heidi, Valeri, Linda, Budayanti, Nyoman S., Dutcher, Tracey V., Mahero, Michael W.

2019

Overview

Addressing critical global health issues, such as antimicrobial resistance, infectious disease outbreaks, and natural disasters, requires strong coordination and management across sectors. The One Health approach is the integrative effort of multiple sectors working to attain optimal health for people, animals, and the environment, and is increasingly recognized by experts as a means to address complex challenges. However, practical application of the One Health approach has been challenging. The One Health Systems Mapping and Analysis Resource Toolkit (OH-SMART) introduced in this paper was designed using a multistage prototyping process to support systematic improvement in multi-sectoral coordination and collaboration to better address complex health concerns through an operational, stepwise, and practical One Health approach. To date, OH-SMART has been used to strengthen One Health systems in 17 countries and has been deployed to revise emergency response frameworks, improve antimicrobial resistance national action plans and create multi agency infectious disease collaboration protocols. OH-SMART has proven to be user friendly, robust, and capable of fostering multi-sectoral collaboration and complex system-wide problem solving.

• Publisher: Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subject: Animals / Antiinfectives and antibacterials / Antimicrobial agents / Antimicrobial resistance / Biology and Life Sciences / Collaboration / Communicable diseases / Complex systems / Coordination / Delivery of Health Care - methods / Disaster management / Disease control / Disease Outbreaks - prevention & control / Disease resistance / Drug resistance / Emergency preparedness / Emergency response / Epidemics / Equipment and supplies / Food safety / Global health / Health care / Health care industry / Health care reform / Health Resources - organization & administration / Health systems agencies / Healthcare industry software / Humans / Infectious diseases / Information management software / Internet / Mapping / Medical cooperation / Medicine and Health Sciences / Methods / Microbial drug resistance / Natural disasters / One Health - standards / One Health - trends / Outbreaks / People and places / Population / Problem solving / Prototyping / Public health / Quality / Social Sciences / Systems Analysis / Veterinary colleges / Veterinary medicine / World health