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Prioritization of livestock transboundary diseases in Belgium using a multicriteria decision analysis tool based on drivers of emergence
Author(s) -
Bianchini Juana,
Humblet MarieFrance,
Cargnel Mickaël,
Van der Stede Yves,
Koenen Frank,
Clercq Kris,
Saegerman Claude
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
transboundary and emerging diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.392
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1865-1682
pISSN - 1865-1674
DOI - 10.1111/tbed.13356
Subject(s) - prioritization , influenza a virus subtype h5n1 , livestock , ranking (information retrieval) , multiple criteria decision analysis , foot and mouth disease , equine influenza , highly pathogenic , decision analysis , business , environmental resource management , operations research , computer science , medicine , biology , ecology , vaccination , virology , outbreak , engineering , statistics , process management , virus , mathematics , environmental science , machine learning
During the past decade, livestock diseases have (re‐)emerged in areas where they had been previously eradicated or never been recorded before. Drivers (i.e. factors of (re‐)emergence) have been identified. Livestock diseases spread irrespective of borders, and therefore, reliable methods are required to help decision‐makers to identify potential threats and try stopping their (re‐)emergence. Ranking methods and multicriteria approaches are cost‐effective tools for such purpose and were applied to prioritize a list of selected diseases ( N = 29 including 6 zoonoses) based on the opinion of 62 experts in accordance with 50 drivers‐related criteria. Diseases appearing in the upper ranking were porcine epidemic diarrhoea, foot‐and‐mouth disease, low pathogenic avian influenza, African horse sickness and highly pathogenic avian influenza. The tool proposed uses a multicriteria decision analysis approach to prioritize pathogens according to drivers and can be applied to other countries or diseases.