Table 4. Fifty-nine unique criteria identified collectively by six focus groups for prioritizing zoonotic diseases in Canada (Part 1).
| Criteria | Theme | Human, animal, pathogen or disease | Public Groups | Professional Groups | Mean Score∧ | Frequency# | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | AH+ | HH+ | A/H+ | ||||||
| 1 | Mortality characteristics in humans | Burden of illness | Human | 2‡ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8.6 | 4 | ||
| 2 | Severity of illness in humans | Burden of illness | Human | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7.6 | 6 |
| 3 | Duration of illness in humans | Burden of illness | Human | 2 | 6.0 | 1 | |||||
| 4 | Co-infection in humans | Burden of illness | Human | 1 | 5.1 | 1 | |||||
| 5 | Reproductive consequences in humans | Burden of illness | Human | 1 | 4.4 | 1 | |||||
| 6 | Severity of illness in animals | Burden of illness | Animal | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6.8 | 4 | ||
| 7 | Combination of disease risk and probability of infection | Disease epidemiology | Human | 1 | 8.6 | 1 | |||||
| 8 | Potential for animal-to-human transmission | Disease epidemiology | Human | 1 | 1 | 8.2 | 2 | ||||
| 9 | Speed of transmission between humans | Disease epidemiology | Human | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8.0 | 3 | |||
| 10 | Incidence or prevalence in humans | Disease epidemiology | Human | 1 | 1 | 7.5 | 2 | ||||
| 11 | Potential for human-to-human transmission | Disease epidemiology | Human | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7.9 | 4 | ||
| 12 | Risk of transmission in humans | Disease epidemiology | Human | 1 | 7.6 | 1 | |||||
| 13 | Speed of disease spread in individuals (incubation period) | Disease epidemiology | Human | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7.0 | 3 | |||
| 14 | High-risk groups in humans | Disease epidemiology | Human | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6.5 | 6 |
| 15 | Immunogenicity in humans | Disease epidemiology | Human | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5.0 | 3 | |||
| 16 | Risk of endemicity in humans | Disease epidemiology | Human | 1 | 5.0 | 1 | |||||
| 17 | Impact of climate change on vectors and animal hosts | Disease epidemiology | Animal | 2 | 7.0 | 1 | |||||
| 18 | Incidence or prevalence in animals | Disease epidemiology | Animal | 1 | 1 | 5.5 | 2 | ||||
| 19 | Specific types of animals involved | Disease epidemiology | Animal | 1 | 1 | 6.3 | 2 | ||||
| 20 | Size of the reservoir host (animal and environment) | Disease epidemiology | Animal | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6.2 | 3 | |||
| 21 | Potential for animal-to-animal transmission | Disease epidemiology | Animal | 1 | 2 | 6.1 | 2 | ||||
| 22 | Potential for human-to-animal transmission | Disease epidemiology | Animal | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5.5 | 3 | |||
| 23 | Risk of endemicity in animals | Disease epidemiology | Animal | 1 | 5.1 | 1 | |||||
| 24 | High-risk groups in animals | Disease epidemiology | Animal | 1 | 4.5 | 1 | |||||
+
AH = animal health professional group, HH = human health professional group and A/H = mixed animal and human health professional group.
∧
Mean score on a scale of 1 being the least important to 9 being the most important.
#
The number of focus groups that identified the unique criterion; 1 indicates only one focus group listed the criterion while 6 indicates all focus groups listed the criterion.
‡
The number of times the unique criterion was identified by each focus group; 2 or more indicates the criterion was listed more than once but expressed in different terms by the focus group.