Integrating socio-ecosystemic factors in One Health approaches: a scoping review in zoonotic disease research

It is widely accepted that zoonoses pose an ever-growing threat which should be tackled using a One Health approach. Like One Health, the socio-ecosystemic framework is a powerful concept that has been used to study complex systems. The aim of this work is to identify the socio-ecosystemic factors i...

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Main Authors: Anthony Giacomini, Agnès Waret-Szkuta, Tephanie Sieng, Didier Raboisson, Guillaume Lhermie, Marisa Peyre, Hélène Guis
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Tephanie Sieng
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Guillaume Lhermie
Marisa Peyre
Hélène Guis
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description It is widely accepted that zoonoses pose an ever-growing threat which should be tackled using a One Health approach. Like One Health, the socio-ecosystemic framework is a powerful concept that has been used to study complex systems. The aim of this work is to identify the socio-ecosystemic factors influencing zoonotic risk, while assessing and highlighting the importance of using this framework from a One Health perspective. To do so, we conducted a scoping review following the PRISMA-ScR guidelines on articles written in English, published between 1986 and 2023, and extracted from three scientific databases (PubMed®, Scopus® and Web of Science™) in January 2023 or identified by snowball sampling. Eligibility criteria were applied to select relevant scientific articles from various disciplines, related to the epidemiology of zoonotic agents in a context of epidemic risk. Among the 1661 articles extracted from the databases, to which must be added articles identified by snowball sampling, a total of 195 articles that underwent full-text analyses were included in our work. We identified 47 socio-ecosystemic factors influencing the risk of zoonotic emergence: 15 were categorized as ecological, 15 as economic, and 17 as social. The social factor “hunting, poaching and wildlife trafficking” was the most referenced, with 24 citations. Only 15 % of the studies were considered truly “interdisciplinary” because they integrated all three dimensions of the socio-ecosystem, and their publication dates show that the issue has only recently been taken up. These results provide a relevant synthesis of knowledge on the subject, in an original way that underlines the equal importance of these three dimensions. The corpus of articles is covered with a good saturation of references, ensuring the representativeness of the results. This work could contribute to a more holistic and effective consideration of the risk of zoonotic emergence, by emphasising the importance of interdisciplinarity.
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spelling doaj-art-4b5bc614c40e42d1b4559c8eb2f3088d2025-08-20T03:47:20ZengElsevierOne Health2352-77142025-06-012010108610.1016/j.onehlt.2025.101086Integrating socio-ecosystemic factors in One Health approaches: a scoping review in zoonotic disease researchAnthony Giacomini0Agnès Waret-Szkuta1Tephanie Sieng2Didier Raboisson3Guillaume Lhermie4Marisa Peyre5Hélène Guis6UMR ASTRE, Université de Toulouse, ENVT, Toulouse, France; Corresponding author.UMR ASTRE, Université de Toulouse, ENVT, Toulouse, FranceEpidemiology & Public Health Unit, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, CambodiaUMR ASTRE, Université de Toulouse, ENVT, Toulouse, FranceUMR ASTRE, Université de Toulouse, ENVT, Toulouse, FranceUMR ASTRE, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Montpellier, FranceEpidemiology & Public Health Unit, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, Cambodia; UMR ASTRE, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Montpellier, FranceIt is widely accepted that zoonoses pose an ever-growing threat which should be tackled using a One Health approach. Like One Health, the socio-ecosystemic framework is a powerful concept that has been used to study complex systems. The aim of this work is to identify the socio-ecosystemic factors influencing zoonotic risk, while assessing and highlighting the importance of using this framework from a One Health perspective. To do so, we conducted a scoping review following the PRISMA-ScR guidelines on articles written in English, published between 1986 and 2023, and extracted from three scientific databases (PubMed®, Scopus® and Web of Science™) in January 2023 or identified by snowball sampling. Eligibility criteria were applied to select relevant scientific articles from various disciplines, related to the epidemiology of zoonotic agents in a context of epidemic risk. Among the 1661 articles extracted from the databases, to which must be added articles identified by snowball sampling, a total of 195 articles that underwent full-text analyses were included in our work. We identified 47 socio-ecosystemic factors influencing the risk of zoonotic emergence: 15 were categorized as ecological, 15 as economic, and 17 as social. The social factor “hunting, poaching and wildlife trafficking” was the most referenced, with 24 citations. Only 15 % of the studies were considered truly “interdisciplinary” because they integrated all three dimensions of the socio-ecosystem, and their publication dates show that the issue has only recently been taken up. These results provide a relevant synthesis of knowledge on the subject, in an original way that underlines the equal importance of these three dimensions. The corpus of articles is covered with a good saturation of references, ensuring the representativeness of the results. This work could contribute to a more holistic and effective consideration of the risk of zoonotic emergence, by emphasising the importance of interdisciplinarity.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352771425001223One HealthSocio-ecosystemicFactorsZoonosesEmergence
spellingShingle Anthony Giacomini
Agnès Waret-Szkuta
Tephanie Sieng
Didier Raboisson
Guillaume Lhermie
Marisa Peyre
Hélène Guis
Integrating socio-ecosystemic factors in One Health approaches: a scoping review in zoonotic disease research
One Health
One Health
Socio-ecosystemic
Factors
Zoonoses
Emergence
title Integrating socio-ecosystemic factors in One Health approaches: a scoping review in zoonotic disease research
title_full Integrating socio-ecosystemic factors in One Health approaches: a scoping review in zoonotic disease research
title_fullStr Integrating socio-ecosystemic factors in One Health approaches: a scoping review in zoonotic disease research
title_full_unstemmed Integrating socio-ecosystemic factors in One Health approaches: a scoping review in zoonotic disease research
title_short Integrating socio-ecosystemic factors in One Health approaches: a scoping review in zoonotic disease research
title_sort integrating socio ecosystemic factors in one health approaches a scoping review in zoonotic disease research
topic One Health
Socio-ecosystemic
Factors
Zoonoses
Emergence
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352771425001223
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