Communicable Diseases Prioritized According to Their Public Health Relevance, Sweden, 2013.

ABSTRACT: To establish strategic priorities for the Public Health Agency of Sweden we prioritized pathogens according to their public health relevance in Sweden in order to guide resource allocation. We then compared the outcome to ongoing surveillance. We used a modified prioritization method developed at the Robert Koch Institute in Germany. In a Delphi process experts scored pathogens according to ten variables. We ranked the pathogens according to the total score and divided them into four priority groups. We then compared the priority groups to self-reported time spent on surveillance by epidemiologists and ongoing programmes for surveillance through mandatory and/or voluntary notifications and for surveillance of typing results. 106 pathogens were scored. The result of the prioritization proce

SUBMITTER: Dahl V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4580468 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature