Prioritisation of infectious diseases from a public health perspective: a multi-criteria decision analysis study, France, 2024
Background Within the International Health Regulations framework, the French High Council for Public Health was mandated in 2022 by health authorities to establish a list of priority infectious diseases for public health, surveillance and research in mainland and overseas France. Aim Our objective w...
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| description | Background Within the International Health Regulations framework, the French High Council for Public Health was mandated in 2022 by health authorities to establish a list of priority infectious diseases for public health, surveillance and research in mainland and overseas France. Aim Our objective was to establish this list. Methods A multi-criteria decision analysis was used, as recommended by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. A list of 95 entities (infectious diseases or groups of these, including the World Health Organization (WHO)-labelled ‘Disease X’) was established by 17 infectious disease experts. Ten criteria were defined to score entities: incidence rate, case fatality rate, potential for emergence and spread, impact on the individual, on society, on socially vulnerable groups, on the healthcare system, and need for new preventive tools, new curative therapies, and surveillance. Each criterion was assigned a relative weight by 77 multidisciplinary experts. For each entity, 98 physicians from various specialties rated each criterion against the entity, using a four-class Likert-type scale; the ratings were converted into numeric values with a nonlinear scale and respectively weighted to calculate the entity score. Results Fifteen entities were ranked as high-priorities, including Disease X and 14 known pathologies (e.g. haemorrhagic fevers, various respiratory viral infections, arboviral infections, multidrug-resistant bacterial infections, invasive meningococcal and pneumococcal diseases, prion diseases, rabies, and tuberculosis). Conclusion The priority entities agreed with those of the WHO in 2023; almost all were currently covered by the French surveillance and alert system. Repeating this analysis periodically would keep the list updated. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a533982bd0cd40c089acb149d2f47c642025-08-20T01:55:57ZengEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and ControlEurosurveillance1560-79172024-12-01295010.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.50.2400074http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/eurosurveillance/29/50Prioritisation of infectious diseases from a public health perspective: a multi-criteria decision analysis study, France, 2024Bruno Hoen0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3070-3017These authors contributed equally to this work and share last authorship.Background Within the International Health Regulations framework, the French High Council for Public Health was mandated in 2022 by health authorities to establish a list of priority infectious diseases for public health, surveillance and research in mainland and overseas France. Aim Our objective was to establish this list. Methods A multi-criteria decision analysis was used, as recommended by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. A list of 95 entities (infectious diseases or groups of these, including the World Health Organization (WHO)-labelled ‘Disease X’) was established by 17 infectious disease experts. Ten criteria were defined to score entities: incidence rate, case fatality rate, potential for emergence and spread, impact on the individual, on society, on socially vulnerable groups, on the healthcare system, and need for new preventive tools, new curative therapies, and surveillance. Each criterion was assigned a relative weight by 77 multidisciplinary experts. For each entity, 98 physicians from various specialties rated each criterion against the entity, using a four-class Likert-type scale; the ratings were converted into numeric values with a nonlinear scale and respectively weighted to calculate the entity score. Results Fifteen entities were ranked as high-priorities, including Disease X and 14 known pathologies (e.g. haemorrhagic fevers, various respiratory viral infections, arboviral infections, multidrug-resistant bacterial infections, invasive meningococcal and pneumococcal diseases, prion diseases, rabies, and tuberculosis). Conclusion The priority entities agreed with those of the WHO in 2023; almost all were currently covered by the French surveillance and alert system. Repeating this analysis periodically would keep the list updated.https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.50.2400074epidemiologyDecision Support TechniquesFrancePublic HealthSurveys and QuestionnairesCommunicable Diseases |
| spellingShingle | Bruno Hoen Prioritisation of infectious diseases from a public health perspective: a multi-criteria decision analysis study, France, 2024 Eurosurveillance epidemiology Decision Support Techniques France Public Health Surveys and Questionnaires Communicable Diseases |
| title | Prioritisation of infectious diseases from a public health perspective: a multi-criteria decision analysis study, France, 2024 |
| title_full | Prioritisation of infectious diseases from a public health perspective: a multi-criteria decision analysis study, France, 2024 |
| title_fullStr | Prioritisation of infectious diseases from a public health perspective: a multi-criteria decision analysis study, France, 2024 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prioritisation of infectious diseases from a public health perspective: a multi-criteria decision analysis study, France, 2024 |
| title_short | Prioritisation of infectious diseases from a public health perspective: a multi-criteria decision analysis study, France, 2024 |
| title_sort | prioritisation of infectious diseases from a public health perspective a multi criteria decision analysis study france 2024 |
| topic | epidemiology Decision Support Techniques France Public Health Surveys and Questionnaires Communicable Diseases |
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