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Agile policies for antimicrobial resistance : A contextual approach to sustainable health challenges

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  • Author(s): Mickelsson, Martin; Oljans, Emma
  • Document Type:
    Electronic Resource
  • Online Access:
    http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-563370
    Global Public Health, 1744-1692, 2025, 20:1
  • Additional Information
    • Publisher Information:
      Uppsala universitet, Centrum för hälsa och hållbarhet Univ Gothenburg, Dept Earth Sci, Box 460, S-40530 Gothenburg, Sweden Univ Gothenburg, Dept Earth Sci, Box 460, S-40530 Gothenburg, Sweden.;Swedish Sch Sport & Hlth Sci, Dept Movement Culture & Soc, Stockholm, Sweden. 2025
    • Abstract:
      This paper examines contextual conditions for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) policy implementation in Zimbabwe. As an emerging global sustainability challenge, AMR constitutes risks for human, animal and environmental health as well as the long-term viability of livestock and farming with implications for communities' economic stability and food security. The study uses participatory research workshops as a data generation method, engaging with interdisciplinary groups of students and lecturers at two universities in Zimbabwe. Utilising a combination of One Health approaches and theories of policy integration and coherence as our analytical framework, we outline the concept of agile policies, adapting policy content to contextual conditions. Results illustrate the interplay between social, economic and institutional contexts for AMR policy implementation and how especially economic pressures and social tensions represent obstacles to contextually relevant implementation. Limited resources and infrastructural support as part of monitoring and enforcement efforts related to antimicrobial use pose further challenges. This paper calls for AMR policy to be aligned with economic, agricultural and educational policies. Through such policy coherence and integration, One Health cross-sector collaborations could be developed, resulting in more policies while lessening the compliance costs for communities in implementing AMR policy in their practices.
    • Subject Terms:
      Sustainable development; higher education; global health; one health; policy implementation; Public Health, Global Health and Social Medicine; Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa och socialmedicin; Article in journal; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; text
    • Accession Number:
      10.1080.17441692.2025.2522913
    • Availability:
      Open access content. Open access content
      info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
    • Note:
      application/pdf
      English
    • Other Numbers:
      UPE oai:DiVA.org:uu-563370
      0000-0003-0410-5654
      doi:10.1080/17441692.2025.2522913
      PMID 40552562
      ISI:001515274600001
      Scopus 2-s2.0-105009303826
      1533965200
    • Contributing Source:
      UPPSALA UNIV LIBR
      From OAIster®, provided by the OCLC Cooperative.
    • Accession Number:
      edsoai.on1533965200
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