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Development and Application of a Prioritization Tool for Animal Health Surveillance Activities in Ireland
Date Issued
2020-12-23
Date Available
2021-06-25T14:32:12Z
Abstract
Decisions around animal health management by stakeholders are often subject to resource limitation, therefore prioritization processes are required to evaluate whether effort is attributed appropriately. The objectives of this study were to develop and apply a surveillance prioritization process for animal health surveillance activities in Ireland. An exploratory sequential mixed research methods design was utilized. A prioritization tool was developed for surveillance activities and implemented over two phases. During the first phase, a survey was conducted which asked stakeholders to prioritize diseases/conditions by importance for Irish agriculture. In the second phase, experts identified the most important surveillance objectives, and allocated resources to the activities that they considered would best meet the surveillance objectives, for each disease/condition. This study developed a process and an accompanying user-friendly practical tool for animal disease surveillance prioritization which could be utilized by other competent authorities/governments. Antimicrobial resistance and bovine tuberculosis were ranked top of the endemic diseases/conditions in the Irish context, while African swine fever and foot and mouth disease were ranked top of the exotic diseases/conditions by the stakeholders. The study showed that for most of the diseases/conditions examined in the prioritization exercise, the respondents indicated a preference for a combination of active and passive surveillance activities. Future extensions of the tool could include prioritization on a per species basis.
Sponsorship
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Frontiers Media
Journal
Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Volume
7
Copyright (Published Version)
2020 the Authors
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2297-1769
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