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Letter to the editor : prioritisation of infectious diseases in public health : feedback on the prioritisation methodology, 15 July 2008 to 15 January 2009
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Vilas, V. J. D., Montibeller, Gilberto and Franco, A. (Alberto) (2011) Letter to the editor : prioritisation of infectious diseases in public health : feedback on the prioritisation methodology, 15 July 2008 to 15 January 2009. Eurosurveillance, Vol.16 (No.27). pp. 24-25. ISSN 1560-7917
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To the editor: We read with great interest the results presented by Gilsdorf and Krause (2011) [1] of a survey to experts on the methodology used by Krause et al. (2008) [2] to prioritise 85 pathogens of public health importance. Their work deals with a very relevant subject, given current pressure on health budgets: the allocation of finite disease surveillance and control resources among competing alternatives, infectious diseases in this case. The authors correctly identify the evaluation as being multi-dimensional and compensatory. Unfortunately, they appear to have overlooked findings and principles of well-established methodologies for assessing the impact of multiple effects on non-tradable goods, such as multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) [5]. It is within this perspective that we make our comments. [...]
| Item Type: | Journal Item |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Communicable diseases, Public health surveillance |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Eurosurveillance |
| Publisher: | Centre European pour la Surveillance Epidemiologique du SIDA |
| ISSN: | 1560-7917 |
| Date: | 7 July 2011 |
| Volume: | Vol.16 |
| Number: | No.27 |
| Page Range: | pp. 24-25 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| References: | 1. Gilsdorf A, Krause G. Prioritisation of infectious diseases in public health: feedback on the prioritisation methodology, 15 July 2008 to 15 January 2009. Euro Surveill. 2011; 16(18):pii=19861. Available from: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19861 2. Krause G; Working group on prioritisation at the Robert Koch Institute. Prioritisation of infectious disease in public health – call for comments. Euro Surveill. 2008; 13(40):pii=18996. Available from: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=18996 3. Montibeller G, Franco LA, Del Rio Vilas VJ. Prioritising emerging threats with multi-criteria decision analysis. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Multi-Criteria Decision Making; 2011 Jun 13-17, Jyvaskyla, Finland. Forthcoming. 4. Keeney RL. Common mistakes in making value trade-offs. Operations Research 2002;50(6):935-45. 5. Keeney RL, Raiffa H. Decisions with multiple objectives: preferences and value tradeoffs, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1993. |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/38764 |
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