Vet Med - Czech, 2005, 50(10):451-460 | DOI: 10.17221/5649-VETMED

Financial impact of foot-and-mouth disease inTurkey: acquisition of required data viaDelphiexpert opinion survey

B. Senturk1, C. Yalcin2
1 Department of Animal Health Research, General Directorate of Agricultural Researches, Ministry of Agriculture, Yenimahalle, Ankara, Turkey
2 Department of Animal Health Economics and Management, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ankara University, Diskapi, Ankara, Turkey

The main obstacle in assessing the financial impact of foot-and-mouth disease inTurkeyis unavailability of reliable data. Considering this issue, this study aimed at using a Delphi Expert Opinion Survey (DEOS) method to obtain data required for economic analysis of FMD inTurkey. This study concluded that although there were problems in obtaining some information from the experts, in general theDelphitechnique is a promising way of obtaining animal health data, which is otherwise missing and/or not regularly recorded in developing countries.

Keywords: foot-and-mouth disease; Delphi; economic analysis; Turkey

Published: October 31, 2005  Show citation

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Senturk B, Yalcin C. Financial impact of foot-and-mouth disease inTurkey: acquisition of required data viaDelphiexpert opinion survey. Vet Med - Czech. 2005;50(10):451-460. doi: 10.17221/5649-VETMED.
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