Policy evaluation: a One health Approach

Issue/problem Robust and efficient health policies are critical in an increasingly connected context where humans, animals and the environment have complex relationship. Adequate evaluation tools are needed to capture policy effects occurring in different environmental and socio-economic domains. Existing tools assess effects in a mono-disciplinary perspective, but evaluation of complex systems seeks systemic and interdisciplinary perspectives. Since November 2014 the EU Cost Action “Network for the Evaluation of One Health” (NEOH) is bringing together people from various disciplines to elaborate a One Health evaluation framework.