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- Title
One Health Risk and Disease (OHRAD): a tool to prioritise the risks for epidemic-prone diseases from One Health perspective.
- Authors
Yasobant, Sandul; Bhavsar, Priya; Lekha, K. Shruti; Patil, Shailee; Falkenberg, Timo; Bruchhausen, Walter; Saxena, Deepak
- Abstract
Background: The rise in epidemic-prone diseases daily poses a serious concern globally. Evidence suggests that many of these diseases are of animal origin and contribute to economic loss. Considering the limited time and other resources available for the animal and human health sectors, selecting the most urgent and significant risk factors and diseases is vital, even though all epidemic-prone diseases and associated risk factors should be addressed. The main aim of developing this tool is to provide a readily accessible instrument for prioritising risk factors and diseases that could lead to disease emergence, outbreak or epidemic. Methods: This tool uses a quantitative and semi-quantitative multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) method that involves five steps: Identifying risk factors and diseases, Weighting the criteria, Risk and disease scoring, Calculating risk impact and disease burden score, and Ranking risks and diseases. It is intended to be implemented through a co-creation workshop and involves individual and group activities. The last two steps are automated in the MS Excel score sheet. Results: This One Health Risk and Disease (OHRAD) prioritisation tool starts with an individual activity of identifying the risks and diseases from the more extensive list. This, then, leads to a group activity of weighing the criteria and providing scores for each risk and disease. Finally, the individual risk and disease scores with the rankings are generated in this tool. Conclusions: The outcome of this OHRAD prioritisation tool is that the top risks and diseases are prioritised for the particular context from One Health perspective. This prioritised list will help experts and officials decide which epidemic-prone diseases to focus on and for which to develop and design prevention and control measures.
- Subjects
PREVENTION of epidemics; DECISION support systems; RISK assessment; PUBLIC health surveillance; MANAGEMENT information systems; RISK management in business; QUANTITATIVE research; DECISION making; SEVERITY of illness index; EPIDEMICS; HEALTH promotion; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
Global Health Research & Policy, 2024, Vol 9, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2397-0642
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s41256-024-00359-w