Identifying future disease hot spots : infectious disease vulnerability index / Melinda Moore, Bill Gelfeld, Adeyemi Okunogbe, Christopher Paul.
Material type: TextSeries: Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-1605-OSD.Publisher: Santa Monica, California : RAND, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 81 pages) : color mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780833096111
- 0833096117
- Emerging infectious diseases -- Prevention
- Communicable diseases -- Prevention
- Diseases -- Risk factors
- Epidemics -- Political aspects
- Public health
- Communicable diseases
- World health
- Communicable Diseases
- Communicable Disease Control
- Global Health
- Risk Factors
- Public Health
- Maladies infectieuses -- Prévention
- Maladies -- Facteurs de risque
- Santé publique
- Maladies infectieuses
- Santé mondiale
- public health
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare
- Epidemics -- Political aspects
- Emerging infectious diseases -- Prevention
- Communicable diseases -- Prevention
- Diseases -- Risk factors
- Public health
- 362.1969 23
- RA643 .M66 2016
- 2017 D-973
- WA 110
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Includes bibliographical references.
Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Methods -- Chapter 3. Developing a Framework to Assess Vulnerability: Framework Foundation: Seven Domains and Associated Factors -- Assembling the Framework and Assigning Weights -- Chapter 4. Results: Initial Results -- Results from the Sensitivity Analysis -- Implications of the Findings -- Chapter 5. Conclusions and Next Steps -- APPENDIXES -- Abbreviations -- Data Sources -- Bibliography.
"Recent high-profile outbreaks, such as Ebola and Zika, have illustrated the transnational nature of infectious diseases. Countries that are most vulnerable to such outbreaks might be higher priorities for technical support. RAND created the Infectious Disease Vulnerability Index to help U.S. government and international agencies identify these countries and thereby inform programming to preemptively help mitigate the spread and effects of potential transnational outbreaks. The authors employed a rigorous methodology to identify the countries most vulnerable to disease outbreaks. They conducted a comprehensive review of relevant literature to identify factors influencing infectious disease vulnerability. Using widely available data, the authors created an index for identifying potentially vulnerable countries and then ranked countries by overall vulnerability score. Policymakers should focus on the 25 most-vulnerable countries with an eye toward a potential "disease belt" in the Sahel region of Africa. The infectious disease vulnerability scores for several countries were better than what would have been predicted on the basis of economic status alone. This suggests that low-income countries can overcome economic challenges and become more resilient to public health challenges, such as infectious disease outbreaks"--Publisher's description.
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