Main description:

This book outlines essential elements of the evaluation of health surveillance within the One Health concept. It provides an introduction to basic theoretical notions of evaluation and vividly discusses related challenges. Expert authors cover the entire spectrum of available, innovative methods, from those for system process evaluations to methods for the economic evaluation of the surveillance strategies. Each chapter provides a detailed description of the methodology required and the tools available as illustrated by practical examples of animal health or One Health surveillance evaluations in both developed and developing countries.

Targeting not only scientists, including epidemiologists, but also technical advisers of decision-makers, the present work is suitable for the evaluation of any type of health surveillance system - animal, human or combined - regardless of the socio-economic context. The volume is richly equipped with practical tools and examples, which enables the reader to apply the methods described. Increasing importance of health surveillance, and threats from disease outbreaks such as the coronavirus pandemic, underline the practical relevance of this work, which will fill an important gap in the literature.

Contents:

Why do we need to evaluate surveillance?.- The different types and level of evaluation.- Framework for Evaluating Animal Disease surveillance systems.- The Eva Survtool : an integrated framework for evaluation of health surveillance .- The economics of surveillance: ead author - Keith Howe - max 15 pages.- Economic evaluation methods From principles to practice:.- Quantitative Methods to Evaluate Health Surveillance Systems.- The use of participatory methods in evaluation of health surveillance systems.- Evaluation of collaboration in a multisectoral surveillance system: the ECoSur tool..- Quantitative methods to evaluate surveillance effectiveness.- Network analysis for animal health surveillance design and evaluation.- Animal health surveillance evaluation in the policy cycle.- Animal disease surveillance: compliance and real governance.- Integrating surveillance evaluation outputs in the policy cycle.- Added value and impact of the evaluation process.- Synthesis and further needs for innovation in health surveillance evaluation approaches.