Systems approaches to animal disease surveillance and resource allocation: methodological frameworks for behavioral analysis

While demands for animal disease surveillance systems are growing, there has been little applied research that has examined the interactions between resource allocation, cost-effectiveness, and behavioral considerations of actors throughout the livestock supply chain in a surveillance system context...

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Published in:PloS one 2013-11, Vol.8 (11), p.e82019-e82019
Main Authors: Rich, Karl M, Denwood, Matthew J, Stott, Alistair W, Mellor, Dominic J, Reid, Stuart W J, Gunn, George J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal Diseases
Animal health
Animal populations
Animals
Decision Making
Decisions
Diarrhea
Disease control
Epidemiology
Health risks
Health surveillance
Infectious diseases
Influence
Life sciences
Linear programming
Livestock
Objectives
Public health
Resource Allocation
Risk factors
Supply chains
Surveillance systems
Traffic surveillance
Veterinary colleges
Veterinary medicine
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Summary:While demands for animal disease surveillance systems are growing, there has been little applied research that has examined the interactions between resource allocation, cost-effectiveness, and behavioral considerations of actors throughout the livestock supply chain in a surveillance system context. These interactions are important as feedbacks between surveillance decisions and disease evolution may be modulated by their contextual drivers, influencing the cost-effectiveness of a given surveillance system. This paper identifies a number of key behavioral aspects involved in animal health surveillance systems and reviews some novel methodologies for their analysis. A generic framework for analysis is discussed, with exemplar results provided to demonstrate the utility of such an approach in guiding better disease control and surveillance decisions.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0082019