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A decade of One Health and Ecohealth in Southeast Asia: Inventory and perspectives

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Title A decade of One Health and Ecohealth in Southeast Asia: Inventory and perspectives
 
Creator Unger, Fred
Gilbert, J.
Hung Nguyen-Viet
Grace, Delia
 
Subject health
 
Description South East Asia (SEA) is a hot spot for diseases emergence as demonstrated for HPAI
and SARS. To address challenges on disease emergence in livestock and human such
as urbanisation, agriculture intensification, land use changes and others new integrated
approaches have been increasingly introduced to the region to facilitated collaboration
across disciplines, groups and stakeholders. Those approaches include the ‘ecohealth’
(EH) and ‘onehealth’ (OH) concept, both focusing on integrated research but
having a different history and characteristics. The EH approach was pioneered over
the last decades by the International Development Research Centre, Canada (IDRC).
The OH concept builds up on Schwabe’s One Medicine and is currently institutionalised
by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and FAO. To promote EH
in the region, ILRI implemented an EH capacity building project (EcoZD) funded by
IDRC between 2008 and 2013. The project targeted six Southeast Asian countries. In
each country an across-disciplines research team was formed and implemented an EH
case study aligned with capacity building on transdisciplinary research. In a subsequent
step, ‘onehealth-ecohealth’ resource centres were established in three universities/institutions
in Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia. For this paper we also screened
selected other OH/EH initiatives implemented since 2004 in SEA for their focus and
impact. Most initiatives emphasised on capacity building others mainly on research
or both. Challenges are various and complex, such as ‘loose’ or overlapping defi-
nitions of OH/EH, cultural barriers, silo thinking, lack of qualitative research skills.
While the use of integrated research has been successfully demonstrated in case studies
(e.g. for Brucellosis in Yunnan) donor dependency, limited impact assessments
of the added value of used integrated approaches and coordination gaps among the
various initiatives remain a challenges and need more attention in the future.
 
Date 2015-09-30
2015-12-30T11:28:33Z
2015-12-30T11:28:33Z
 
Type Poster
 
Identifier Unger, F., Gilbert, J., Hung Nguyen-Viet and Grace, D. 2015. A decade of One Health and Ecohealth in Southeast Asia: Inventory and perspectives. Poster prepared for the Tropentag 2015, Berlin, Germany, 16-18 September 2015. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/69427
https://www.slideshare.net/ILRI/decade-of-one-health-ecohealth-in-se-asia
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher International Livestock Research Institute