Canada: Multi-criteria decision analysis as an innovative approach to managing zoonoses: results from a study on Lyme disease in Canada. Aenishaenslin C, Hongoh V, Cissé HD, Hoen AG, Samoura K, Michel P, Waaub JP, Bélanger D. BACKGROUND: Zoonoses are a growing international threat interacting at the human-animal-environment interface and call for transdisciplinary and multi-sectoral approaches in order to achieve effective disease management. The recent emergence of Lyme disease in Quebec, Canada is a good example of a complex health issue for which the public health sector must find protective interventions. Traditional preventive and control interventions can have important environmental, social and economic impacts and as a result, decision-making requires a systems approach capable of integrating these multiple aspects of interventions. This paper presents the results from a study of a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) approach for the management of Lyme disease in Quebec, Canada. MCDA methods allow a comparison of interventions or alternatives based on multiple criteria. FULL TEXT PDF: biomedcentral/content/pdf/1471-2458-13-897.pdf
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