Prioritization tools for diseases and interventions targeting populations in Africa and Canada vulnerable to water-related health issues

In the second phase, an endemic vector-borne CSID was selected in each of the study regions and factors important to consider in managing these diseases were identified in the context of each of the study regions. [...] Additionally, driving forces such as global ecosystem change, the existence of suitable climate, the geopolitical stability of a region, the economic stability and related nutritional status and general health of a population, state of the underlying health infrastructure, the immunity of the local population, the existence of suitable vectors and reservoir hosts, changes in human behavior and oth. [...] In their study on adaptation policy in the Netherlands, de Bruin and colleagues (2009) used the following criteria: the importance of option in terms of expected gross benefits that can be obtained, the urgency of the option, the no-regret characteristics of the option (good to do irrespective of CC), the co-benefits to other sectors and domains, the effect on climate mitigation (e.g. [...] The goals of the FGDs were presented to the group at the start of the meeting and confidentiality of responses was assured. [...] A detailed list of the criteria used in the models, the direction of the desired effect and scale, is included in the appendix.