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Euro Surveill. 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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Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 27, 07 July 2011
Letters
Letter to the editor: Prioritisation of infectious diseases in public health: feedback on the prioritisation methodology, 15 July 2008 to 15 January 2009
V J Del Rio Vilas (
)<SUP>1</SUP>, G Montibeller<SUP>2</SUP>, L A Franco<SUP>3</SUP>
Citation style for this article: Del Rio Vilas VJ, Montibeller G, Franco LA. Letter to the editor: Prioritisation of infectious diseases in public health: feedback on the prioritisation methodology, 15 July 2008 to 15 January 2009. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(27):pii=19911. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=19911
Date of submission: 29 June 2011 <HR>
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.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 27, 07 July 2011
Letters
Letter to the editor: Prioritisation of infectious diseases in public health: feedback on the prioritisation methodology, 15 July 2008 to 15 January 2009
V J Del Rio Vilas (
- Bechtel International Systems Inc. Tashkent, Uzbekistan
- Department of Management, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom
- Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Citation style for this article: Del Rio Vilas VJ, Montibeller G, Franco LA. Letter to the editor: Prioritisation of infectious diseases in public health: feedback on the prioritisation methodology, 15 July 2008 to 15 January 2009. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(27):pii=19911. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=19911
Date of submission: 29 June 2011 <HR>
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.
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