A user-friendly decision support tool to assist one-health risk assessors.

ABSTRACT: One-Health risk assessments are integral to developing efficient responses to disease threats, including global pandemics. However, short timeframes, inadequate disease-specific information and an insufficient skill-base make it hard for inexperienced assessors to distinguish between a large portfolio of approaches. The wrong choice can detract from the disease response. Here, we present an interactive decision support tool to help with this choice. A workshop with participants from diverse professional backgrounds provided six themes that should be considered when deciding on the best approach. Questions based on these themes were then developed to populate a decision tree which guides users to their most appropriate approach. One-Health risk assessment tools and literature were used as e

SUBMITTER: Dewar R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8141943 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature