Giving Meaning to Action and Research: Notes on the ‘One Health’ Approach from a Sociological Perspective

The One Health (OH) approach emphasizes the need to tackle the challenges of human, animal and ecosystem health using a more integrated approach. Since the mid-2000s and even more since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health scholars and policymakers have been paying an increasing atte...

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Veröffentlicht in:Development (Society for International Development) Jg. 66; H. 3-4; S. 226 - 232
Hauptverfasser: Balduzzi, Giacomo, Favretto, Anna Rosa
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 01.12.2023
Palgrave Macmillan
Schlagworte:
Animal husbandry
Beck, Ulrich (1944-2015)
Bourdieu, Pierre (1930-2002)
Case studies
COVID-19
Dairy cattle
Development and Social Change
Development Economics
Development Policy
Development Studies
Division of labor
Habitus
Health education
Health promotion
Integrated approach
Integrative approach
Livestock
Meaning
Pandemics
Policy making
Public health
Social Sciences
Sociology
Thematic Section
Risk Society
Utopia
Animal Health and Welfare
Dairy cattle farms
Bourdieu’s field theory
ISSN:1011-6370, 1461-7072
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Zusammenfassung:The One Health (OH) approach emphasizes the need to tackle the challenges of human, animal and ecosystem health using a more integrated approach. Since the mid-2000s and even more since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health scholars and policymakers have been paying an increasing attention to the One Health approach. The authors retrace the different reconstructions on the origins and meanings of the One Health approach also by referring to a case study jointly conducted by sociologists and veterinary epidemiologists in the context of dairy cattle farms located in the provinces of Turin and Cuneo. According to Beck (1992), in risk societies, the division of labour between science, politics and economics breaks apart and must be renegotiated. Moreover, according to Pierre Bourdieu, One Health is understandable, in sociological terms, as a social field, that is arenas where actors’ relations stem from the different positions in the field and from their different dispositions ( habitus ). Dominant groups are also recognizable. In this perspective OH takes shape as a peculiar form of real (or possible) utopia: that of using the network of connections by which we grasp the risks to formulate an integrated strategy able at promoting health from a global and systemic standpoint and preventing the potential for irreversible destruction.
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ISSN:1011-6370
1461-7072
DOI:10.1057/s41301-023-00383-2