Flowers, P. (2018) Antimicrobial resistance: a biopsychosocial problem requiring innovative interdisciplinary and imaginative interventions. Journal of Infection Prevention, 19(4), pp. 195-199. (doi: 10.1177/1757177418755308) (PMID:30013625)
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Abstract
To date, antimicrobials have been understood through largely biomedical perspectives. There has been a tendency to focus upon the effectiveness of pharmaceuticals within individual bodies. However, the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance demands we reconsider how we think about antimicrobials and their effects. Rather than understanding them primarily within bodies, it is increasingly important to consider their effects between bodies, between species and across environments. We need to reduce the drivers of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) at a global level, focusing on the connections between prescribing in one country and resistance mechanisms in another. We need to engage with the ways antimicrobials within the food chain will impact upon human healthcare. Moreover, we need to realise what happens within the ward will impact upon the environment (through waste water). In the future, imaginative interventions will be required that must make the most of biomedicine but draw equally across a wider range of disciplines (e.g. engineering, ecologists) and include an ever-increasing set of professionals (e.g. nurses, veterinarians and farmers). Such collective action demands a shift to working in new interdisciplinary, inter-professional ways. Mutual respect and understanding is required to enable each perspective to be combined to yield synergistic effects.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Flowers, Professor Paul |
| Authors: | Flowers, P. |
| College/School: | College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Health & Wellbeing > MRC/CSO SPHSU |
| Journal Name: | Journal of Infection Prevention |
| Publisher: | SAGE |
| ISSN: | 1757-1774 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1757-1782 |
| Published Online: | 16 February 2018 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2018 The Author |
| First Published: | First published in Journal of Infection Prevention 19(4):195-199 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher |
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