Professionals throughout the world have been working to assess the interdisciplinary interaction and interdependence between health and wellbeing in a constantly changing environment. The One Health concept was developed to encourage sustainable collaborative partnerships and to promote optimal health for people, animals, plants, the environment, and the whole planet. The dissemination of scientific discoveries and policies, by working directly with diverse communities, has been one of the main goals for Global One Health. The One Health concept has also been referred or related to as “One Medicine, One Medicine-One Health, One World-One Health, EcoHealth,” and Planetary Health,” depending on each fundamental view and approach. In Latin America, despite the concept still being discussed among health professionals and educators, several One Health initiatives have been used daily for more than decades. One Health action has been applied especially in rural and underserved urban areas where low socioeconomic status, lack of health professionals, and scarcity of medical resources may require professionals to work together. Local communities from diverse social and economic statuses, including indigenous populations have been working with institutions and social organizations for many years, accomplishing results through grassroots movements. These “bottom-up” socio-community approaches have also been tools for the prevention and control of diseases, such practice has preceded the One Health concepts in Latin American countries. It is strongly believed that collaborative, multidisciplinary, political, and economic initiatives with prosocial focus may become investments toward obtaining significant results in the face of global, economic and health challenges; working for a healthier world with inclusivity, equity, and equality. In this study, it is briefly presented how the One Health approach has been initiated and developed in Latin America, highlighting the events and actions taken in Brazil, Chile, and Colombia.

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The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are ambitious global targets proposed by 2030 Agenda. The private sector should contribute to these goals, and the non‐financial disclosure reports is the primary means to inform stakeholders about the impacts of corporate activities on the environment and society, as well as their contributions to sustainable development. Therefore, measuring the quality of these reports is an essential task in order to propose improvements and identify the level of transparency. This article analyses 11 non‐financial reports of the largest banks operating in Brazil, using a methodological approach divided into two stages: the sustainability disclosure matrix and the measurement system. The first stage is based on the analysis of the material topics provided for in the reports under the Global Reporting Initiative standard and their relationship with the SDGs. The second stage quantitatively measures the different degrees of quality of the information disclosed for each disclosure topic, generating the disclosure quality performance indicator. This indicator allows indicating how pro sustainability a corporation is. The work contributes by proposing a quality classification of the non‐financial report, besides revealing the direct relationship existing between the number of material topics reported and the quality indicator. The main result of the empirical analysis is that Brazilian banks' reports are of low quality. Some practical implications: it was found that the more information disclosed, the better the quality of reporting; and the use of integrated reporting as a tool for disclosure of non‐financial results is suggested.