Commentary: How useful is ‘burden of disease’ to set public health priorities for infectious diseases?

For many infectious diseases, a low burden of disease does not equate to reduced potential public health importance. Many zoonotic infectious diseases have the potential for human-to-human transmission with potentially devastating consequences as currently seen with Ebola. Policymakers should not be...

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Autores principales: Berkelman, Ruth, LeDuc, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Palgrave Macmillan UK 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7099251/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25925086
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/jphp.2015.15
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spelling pubmed-70992512020-03-27 Commentary: How useful is ‘burden of disease’ to set public health priorities for infectious diseases? Berkelman, Ruth LeDuc, James J Public Health Policy Commentary For many infectious diseases, a low burden of disease does not equate to reduced potential public health importance. Many zoonotic infectious diseases have the potential for human-to-human transmission with potentially devastating consequences as currently seen with Ebola. Policymakers should not be lulled into thinking that the best use of resources is to allocate them only to the most obvious current problems. Palgrave Macmillan UK 2015-04-30 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC7099251/ /pubmed/25925086 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/jphp.2015.15 Text en © Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2015 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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