PMID- 20633939
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20101123
LR  - 20100827
IS  - 1873-1716 (Electronic)
IS  - 0167-5877 (Linking)
VI  - 96
IP  - 3-4
DP  - 2010 Sep 1
TI  - Multi Criteria Decision Making to evaluate control strategies of contagious 
      animal diseases.
PG  - 201-10
LID - 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2010.06.010 [doi]
AB  - The decision on which strategy to use in the control of contagious animal 
      diseases involves complex trade-offs between multiple objectives. This paper 
      describes a Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) application to illustrate its 
      potential support to policy makers in choosing the control strategy that best 
      meets all of the conflicting interests. The presented application focused on the 
      evaluation of alternative strategies to control Classical Swine Fever (CSF) 
      epidemics within the European Union (EU) according to the preferences of the 
      European Chief Veterinary Officers (CVO). The performed analysis was centred on 
      the three high-level objectives of epidemiology, economics and social ethics. The 
      appraised control alternatives consisted of the EU compulsory control strategy, a 
      pre-emptive slaughter strategy, a protective vaccination strategy and a 
      suppressive vaccination strategy. Using averaged preference weights of the 
      elicited CVOs, the preference ranking of the control alternatives was determined 
      for six EU regions. The obtained results emphasized the need for EU 
      region-specific control. Individual CVOs differed in their views on the relative 
      importance of the various (sub)criteria by which the performance of the 
      alternatives were judged. Nevertheless, the individual rankings of the control 
      alternatives within a region appeared surprisingly similar. Based on the results 
      of the described application it was concluded that the structuring feature of the 
      MCDM technique provides a suitable tool in assisting the complex decision making 
      process of controlling contagious animal diseases.
CI  - 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Mourits, M C M
AU  - Mourits MC
AD  - Department of Social Sciences, Business Economics, Wageningen University, 
      Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, The Netherlands. Monique.Mourits@wur.nl
FAU - van Asseldonk, M A P M
AU  - van Asseldonk MA
FAU - Huirne, R B M
AU  - Huirne RB
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20100714
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Prev Vet Med
JT  - Preventive veterinary medicine
JID - 8217463
SB  - IM
MH  - Animal Husbandry/*methods
MH  - Animals
MH  - Classical Swine Fever/*prevention & control
MH  - *Decision Making
MH  - Disease Outbreaks/prevention & control/veterinary
MH  - Disease Transmission, Infectious/prevention & control/*veterinary
MH  - European Union
MH  - Euthanasia, Animal
MH  - Swine
EDAT- 2010/07/17 06:00
MHDA- 2010/12/14 06:00
CRDT- 2010/07/17 06:00
PHST- 2007/11/19 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2010/06/12 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2010/06/15 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2010/07/17 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/07/17 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/12/14 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0167-5877(10)00176-5 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2010.06.010 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Prev Vet Med. 2010 Sep 1;96(3-4):201-10. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2010.06.010. 
      Epub 2010 Jul 14.