Project

Expert and user validation of One Health policy screening tool

From a democratic public policy perspective, One Health is aimed at weighing the values, interests, issues and partial solutions of interdependent components of a complex adaptive ecosystem, and seeking a balance in trade-offs between them. The One Health policy screening tool provides an overview as input to the political designation of balanced policy priorities.

The aims of the tool are:

(1) to inform a reconsideration of the government’s weighing of One Health aspects, as well as
(2) to assess the policy proposal’s integrative capacity for One Health.

The tool supports the identification of potential policy impacts or lacking consideration of a range of One Health core aspects, and a rapid appraisal of the current integrative level of One Health aimed policies. The purpose is a desktop screening by policy advisors based on existing information to be completed within a few days. Following the OHHLEP 2022 definition, the tool offers a relative quick, non-exhaustive overview of the broad One Health spectrum, and references to existing open access impact assessment frameworks, global or EU databases of core aspect composite country indicators, and policy guidance resources.