cost benefit analysis

A number of empirical and theoretical contributions for analyzing costs and benefits of control and prevention of animal diseases in the developed and developing countries from the literature are reviewed. The purpose of this literature review is to assess the various ways that have been used to quantify costs and benefits of different control and prevention measures associated with diseases with the aim of identifying an appropriate methodology for analyzing the mitigations measures used to control/prevent Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in the study countries.

This report discusses a) the role of the synthesis analysis and the steps that will take place under this work stream, b) a modeling approaches that will be used for the cost benefit analysis (CBA), cost effective analysis (CEA), building of decision/event trees, and simulation of a bio-economic model, c) data needs for conducting the CBA and CEA, d) the types of policy scenarios for which simulations are proposed, and e) a methodological framework depicting how the outputs of each of the work streams are linked.

The overall goal of the synthesis analysis is to help national governmen