title: A conceptual framework for economic optimization of an animal health surveillance portfolio.
abstract: Decision making on hazard surveillance in livestock product chains is a multi-hazard, multi-stakeholder, and multi-criteria process that includes a variety of decision alternatives. The multi-hazard aspect means that the allocation of the scarce resource for surveillance should be optimized from the point of view of a surveillance portfolio (SP) rather than a single hazard. In this paper, we present a novel conceptual approach for economic optimization of a SP to address the resource allocation problem for a surveillance organization from a theoretical perspective. This approach uses multi-criteria techniques to evaluate the performances of different settings of a SP, taking cost-benefit aspects of surveillance and stakeholders' preferences into account. The credibility of the approach has also been checked for conceptual validity, data needs and operational validity; the application potentials of the approach are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Business Economics Group,Department of Social Sciences,Wageningen University,Wageningen,The Netherlands.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: Operational Research and Logistics Group,Department of Social Sciences,Wageningen University,Wageningen,The Netherlands.
authors.forename: G D H
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Claassen
authors.affiliation: Business Economics Group,Department of Social Sciences,Wageningen University,Wageningen,The Netherlands.
authors.forename: A G J M
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Oude Lansink
authors.affiliation: Business Economics Group,Department of Social Sciences,Wageningen University,Wageningen,The Netherlands.
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Saatkamp
mesh_terms: D000820:Animal Diseases / Q000191:economics* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000818:Animals; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D058751:Livestock; D018803:Models, Economic; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D040841:Resource Allocation; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000191:economics
keywords: Conceptual framework; economic analysis; hazard surveillance; surveillance portfolio optimization