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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.
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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 | ||||
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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 | ||||
Official Date: | 7 July 2011 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.16 | ||||
Number: | No.27 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 24-25 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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