Toward “One Health” Promotion

Rock, Melanie; Degeling, Chris

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“…The concept of ‘One Health’; the integration of human and other animal health and medicine, as well as the environment and social contexts in which they exist appears to be starting to break down the somewhat artificial disciplinary boundaries and promoting multidisciplinary thinking and working [121,122]. Even more recently, the concept of ‘One Welfare’ [123] developed the approach of working together to enhance animal welfare and human wellbeing.…”

Section: Is Owner Education the Solution To The Challenge?mentioning

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Improving the Welfare of Companion Dogs—Is Owner Education the Solution?

Philpotts

Dillon

Rooney

2019

Animals

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Simple SummaryThe welfare of most dogs living in homes is largely unknown. However, national surveys carried out by animal welfare charities and findings by animal welfare researchers have shown significant deterioration in some key aspects of dog welfare. For example, more dogs presenting to vets with behavioural problems, obesity, and ill-health due to poor breeding practices. This means that some dogs are suffering due to their owners’ behaviours or ownership practices. Educating dog owners as to how best to look after their dogs is, and has been seen by many, as key to improving the welfare of dogs living in homes. However, the concept of education, the context in which it occurs, and the lack of systematic evaluation of the effectiveness of education interventions means that nobody really knows if this approach works. This paper explores these concepts and draws together a wide range of sources of information to highlight some of the complexities of improving dog welfare by educating owners.AbstractVets, animal welfare charities, and researchers have frequently cited educating owners as a necessity for improving the welfare of companion dogs. The assumption that improving an owner’s knowledge through an education intervention subsequently results in improvements in the welfare of the dog appears reasonable. However, the complexity of dog welfare and dog ownership and the context in which these relationships occur is rapidly changing. Psychology has demonstrated that humans are complex, with values, attitudes, and beliefs influencing our behaviours as much as knowledge and understanding. Equally, the context in which we individuals and our dogs live is rapidly changing and responding to evolving societal and cultural norms. Therefore, we seek to understand education’s effectiveness as an approach to improving welfare through exploring and understanding these complexities, in conjunction with the relevant research from the disciplines of science education and communication. We argue that well designed and rigorously evaluated education interventions can play a part in the challenge of improving welfare, but that these may have limited scope, and welfare scientists could further consider extending cross-disciplinary, cross-boundary working, and research in order to improve the welfare of companion dogs.

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Section: Is Owner Education the Solution To The Challenge?mentioning

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Improving the Welfare of Companion Dogs—Is Owner Education the Solution?

Philpotts

Dillon

Rooney

2019

Animals

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“…Despite criticisms from critical epidemiology to the WHO proposal for being in practice more complicit with the status quo structuring inequities ( 1 , 125 , 126 ), both positions point to the need to transcend biologism and individualism in health, but they also reduce the social to the human domain. However, some approaches to One Health show that reducing social relations to humans is misleading ( 23 , 52 , 127 ), whereas biopolitics and sociology set background to think a more-than-human social determination of health ( 9 – 11 , 30 , 128 – 130 ).…”

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One Health of Peripheries: Biopolitics, Social Determination, and Field of Praxis

Baquero

2021

Front. Public Health

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Amid the urgency to solve countless and severe health problems, asking what is health or who can and must have it may seem like a waste of time. However, some responses can reveal prevailing practices that divert attention from fundamental problems, thus maintaining privileges and deepening health inequities. One Health of Peripheries arises from these questions and takes three interdependent senses. The first refers to attributes determining the well-being and suffering of peripheral multispecies collectives: a state, a process, the realization of capacities. The second problematizes marginalizing apparatuses that define health and who can and should have it. The third encompasses practices in more-than-human social spaces in which, and through which, One Health is experienced, understood, and transformed. The qualification of health as “one” does not refer to the lack of plurality, nor to the simple aggregation of health fragments (human + animal + environmental), but to the complexity of health in a field with peripheral places, ensuing from margins to privilege those who are inside and legitimize the exploitation of those who are outside. The interaction among margins creates degrees and kinds of privilege and vulnerability that materialize epidemiologic profiles while articulating different peripheral strengths and needs supports a collective resistance to break margins. Social determination, a key concept in the (Latin American) collective health movement, underlies such profiles. However, this movement overlooks the more-than-human dimension of social determination; that is to say, One Health of Peripheries is a blind spot of collective health. The cartography of One Health of Peripheries has unique needs regarding participation, research, and inclusive policies for the decolonial promotion of healthy lifestyles.

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“…‘More‐than‐human solidarity’ takes place whenever human efforts to care for each other extend to caring for non‐human animals, or whenever humans take practical steps to care for non‐human animals (Rock and Degeling ). Conceptually, more‐than‐human solidarity aligns with posthumanist approaches to health promotion (Cohn and Lynch , , Friese and Nuyts , Rock , Rock , Rock and Degeling , Rock and Degeling , Rock et al . , ).…”

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“…Among qualitative scholars who work with researchers and practitioners in health promotion (Mykhalovskiy et al . ), recognition is growing of the extent to which efforts to care for non‐human ‘others’ can enhance human health (Brown and Nading , Rock and Degeling , Rock et al . ).…”

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From more‐than‐human solidarity to multi‐species biographical value: insights from a veterinary school about ethical dilemmas in One Health promotion

Rock

Degeling

Adams

2020

Sociology Health & Illness

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This article features a partnership between a veterinary school and a charity that aims to enhance the wellbeing of low-income people. Through this partnership, the charity periodically hosts veterinary clinics for clients and their pets. Even as the veterinarians and veterinary students duly examine people's pets, these pop-up clinics aim to help people and their pets. Hence our analysis revolves around the ethics of 'more-than-human solidarity'. By 'more-than-human solidarity', we mean efforts to help others that either center on or that implicate non-human beings. To delve into the ethical and sociological implications of subsidised veterinary services, and to assist with program planning, we conducted several in-depth interviews with veterinarians. Most substantively, we found that the veterinary school's outreach clinics give rise to multi-species biographical value, which is prized as a pedagogical resource for veterinary students. The veterinarians whom we interviewed felt troubled by the extent to which the pop-up clinics ultimately benefited the veterinary school, but also by the shortage of subsidised veterinary services in the vicinity. Based on these interviews and our own reflections, we invite more scholarship on cultural, economic and political influences that shape the lives of human beings and non-human animals alike.

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Toward “One Health” Promotion

Cited by 7 publications

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Improving the Welfare of Companion Dogs—Is Owner Education the Solution?

Improving the Welfare of Companion Dogs—Is Owner Education the Solution?

One Health of Peripheries: Biopolitics, Social Determination, and Field of Praxis

From more‐than‐human solidarity to multi‐species biographical value: insights from a veterinary school about ethical dilemmas in One Health promotion

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