A standardized process for developing a national notifiable diseases list in a pacific island setting.
Asia Pac J Public Health
; 22(3): 279-88, 2010 Jul.
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ABSTRACT
The authors describe an adapted method, originally developed for infectious disease resource allocation, for prioritizing infectious diseases for inclusion in a Pacific island nation's National Notifiable Diseases List. Using a process that was systematic, transparent, objective, and addressed multiple criteria, a panel of stakeholders judged candidate diseases against 12 objective criteria and arrived at weighted scores for the diseases, which were then ranked. The result was the successful creation of a list of 22 urgently notifiable conditions. However, the process was only incrementally more useful than the use of consensus, and certain anomalies necessitated a reality check and adjustment of the final results. The process described herein may be more useful in settings where there is wide disagreement among stakeholders; it also appears more useful for its original purpose-prioritizing public health resource allocation for infectious disease control. The modifications discussed may make it more relevant to notifiable disease selection.
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Assunto principal:
Vigilância da População
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Doenças Transmissíveis
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Notificação de Doenças
Tipo de estudo:
Screening_studies
Limite:
Humans
País como assunto:
Oceania
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2010
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Article