Part 4: Indicators, Thresholds, and Setting Priorities

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Part 4Indicators, Thresholds, and Setting
Priorities
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Priorities

• When setting priorities
• Keep in mind dependencies

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Priority Pyramida simple way to prioritize
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Setting Priorities
Or Here?
Intervene here?
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Thresholds
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Critical Thresholds

• Inadequate available levels of supplies result in
  decreasing functional levels that result in
  increasing Crude Mortality Rates (CMR)
• All functions and subfunctions do not have
  critical thresholds

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Functional Thresholds

• Minimum amount of available supplies of
  goods/services required to maintain the
  functional state of a BSF
• Available levels of supplies of goods/services
  above the functional threshold are LUXURIES

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Setting prioritieswater as an example
Critical threshold
Functional threshold
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Setting prioritieswater as an example
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Setting Priorities
Or Here?
Intervene here?
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Indicators

• Quantitative or qualitative criteria used to
  correlate or predict the value or measure of a
  program, system, or organization

Spiegel, et al Prehosp Disast Med
200116(4)281-285.
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Indicators

• Must be appropriate to assess effects
• Used for primary and secondary endpoints
• Types
• Damage-(quantitative or qualitative)
• Function-(quantitative or qualitative)
• Available supplies (goods/services)-(quantitative)
  
• Efficiency
• Effectiveness
• Cost
• Benefit

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Current Disaster Indicators

• Research/evaluations depend on selection of
  appropriate indicators
• Conceived by consensus and modified as value
  demonstrated
• Few available
• Need International Conference on Indicators and
  Measures of Effectiveness

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Generic and Hard-Endpoint Indicators
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Checchi and Roberts 2005
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Task 2

• Get back into your groups
• Work on Exercise 2 and be prepared to present and
  discuss