Monitoring the One Health approach

The “One Health” approach recognises that human, animal and plant health are interdependent and bound to the health of the ecosystems they inhabit. The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH, founded as OIE) promotes this concept through its own work and initiatives with other international organisations. Monitoring the One Health approach can bring valuable insights for both WOAH and WOAH Members.

Monitoring the One Health approach

Through its Annual Report, the Observatory presents a global overview of the level of uptake of WOAH standards that relate to One Health.  

How can you access our One Health analysis? 

The One Health dashboard presents the results of the analysis in an interactive way. 

To discover the results of our One Health analysis, access the full report as well as the one-page executive summary.  

  • Implementation of WOAH standards: the Observatory Annual Report
    Observatory Annual Report |
    First Edition, 2022
  • Monitoring the One Health approach
    Observatory Annual Report 2022 |
    Executive summary
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How did we monitor the implementation of One Health standards? 

Monitoring the implementation of standards related to One Health requires building and analysing indicators using various data sources.  

What One Health indicators did we use to monitor the implementation of these standards?  

Several indicators made it possible to monitor the implementation of standards related to One Health, among them:  

One Health contextual indicators:  

Percentage of WOAH-listed diseases that are zoonoses  
Number and percentage of immediate notifications for WOAH-listed diseases related to zoonoses 
Number and percentage of immediate notifications for emerging diseases that were reported as having a public health impact 

One Health implementation indicators:  

Performance of Veterinary Services regarding external coordination capability of the Veterinary Services (including the One Health approach), as assessed by the PVS Tool: Percentage of Members that have been assessed with a Level of Advancement of 3 or more for the Critical Competency I-6.B 
Number and percentage of Members that hosted an IHR-PVS National Bridging Workshop  

What data sources did we use to build One Health indicators?  

Four main data sources made it possible to build the monitoring indicators:  

WOAH-listed diseases that are zoonoses: dataset provided by the WOAH World Animal Health Information and Analysis Department (2021) 
Data related to immediate notifications: data extracted from WAHIS immediate notifications (2005-2021) 
IHR-PVS National Bridging Workshop: PVS dataset, as compiled and provided by the WOAH Capacity Building Department (2014-2021) 
Performance of Veterinary Services on One Health: PVS dataset, as compiled and provided by the WOAH Capacity Building Department (2016-2021)    

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