Multidisciplinary and Evidence-based Method for Prioritizing Diseases of Food-producing Animals and Zoonoses

[en] To prioritize 100 animal diseases and zoonoses in Europe, we used a multicriteria decision-making procedure based on opinions of experts and evidence-based data. Forty international experts performed intracategory and intercategory weighting of 57 prioritization criteria. Two methods (deterministic with mean of each weight and probabilistic with distribution functions of weights by using Monte Carlo simulation) were used to calculate a score for each disease. Consecutive ranking was established. Few differences were observed between each method. Compared with previous prioritization methods, our procedure is evidence based, includes a range of fields and criteria while considering uncertainty, and will be useful for analyzing diseases that affect public health

Research Center/Unit :

Unité de Recherche en Epidémiologie et Analyse de Risque

Disciplines :

Veterinary medicine & animal health

Author, co-author :

Humblet, Marie-France ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des maladies infectieuses et parasitaires > Epidémiologie et analyse des risques appl. aux sc. vétér.

Vandeputte, Sébastien ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des maladies infectieuses et parasitaires > Epidémiologie et analyse des risques appl. aux sc. vétér.

Albert, Adelin ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la santé publique > Informatique médicale et biostatistique

Gosset, Christiane ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la santé publique > Santé publique : aspects généraux

Kirschvink, Nathalie

Haubruge, Eric ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Services administratifs généraux > Vice-Recteur de Gembloux Agro Bio Tech

Fecher-Bourgeois, Fabienne ; Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC-Ecole de gestion : UER > Economie politique et économie de la santé

Pastoret, Paul-Pierre ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des maladies infectieuses et parasitaires (DMI) > Département des maladies infectieuses et parasitaires (DMI)

Saegerman, Claude ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des maladies infectieuses et parasitaires > Epidémiologie et analyse des risques appl. aux sc. vétér.

Language :

English

Title :

Multidisciplinary and Evidence-based Method for Prioritizing Diseases of Food-producing Animals and Zoonoses

Publication date :

April 2012

Journal title :

Emerging Infectious Diseases

ISSN :

1080-6040

eISSN :

1080-6059

Publisher :

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, United States - Georgia

Volume :

Issue :

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Additional URL :

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/4/11-1151_article.htm#suggestedcitation

Name of the research project :

Développement d’un outil générique de quantification des pertes économiques directes et indirectes subies par les éleveurs et la société civile dans le cadre des maladies émergentes en Région Wallonne

Funders :

DGA - Région wallonne. Direction générale de l'Agriculture

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