One Health Practices: methodological proposal for evaluating organic social farming

Shifting the focus in the One Health perspective from risk management to health promotion, this study investigates organic social farming in Italy as a practical application of health promotion in the One Health approach, suggesting a specific methodological proposal. While One Health is often linked to global threats, this research adopts a “reconstructive social theory” to highlight ordinary practices that generate wellbeing through human-animal-ecosystem synergy. Using a mixed-methods approach and the Dors 2020 tool, 16 organizations were analyzed. Results show that while explicit knowledge of One Health is limited, its principles of integration and empowerment are deeply rooted in the principles of their daily activities. The study confirms that organic social farms are effective “good practices” for public health promotion in the One Health perspective. It emphasizes the need for further promoting scientific tools to validate these shadowed experiences within national health agendas from a public sociology perspective.