3.7 Assessment of available animal health platforms or risk
analysis tools
The section regarding the assessment of the available animal health
platforms or risk analysis tools was answered by 147 respondents (there
were many missing values and data entry errors resulting in deletion of
some responses). When asked if they had encountered issues with using
different animal health platforms or risk analysis tools due to the fact
these were not adaptable to their country’s conditions, 45% said yes
and 55% no. Regarding the platforms they most used respondents had to
only indicate the ones they used, therefore the total number for the
categories most used, intermediate usage and least used differed as some
respondents only used one unique animal health/tool platform, and others
two or more. In total most used, intermediate usage and least used had
147, 128, and 94 responses respectively. When asked what three animal
health information systems they mostly used the WAHIS or WAHID (i.e. the
platform of the OIE) was the one mentioned the most (data not shown).
Sixty-two used this platform every day whilst 7 responded once a
semester (Table 3). The percentage of satisfaction was not
similar amongst the 3 groups having median of 75%, 70% and 63.5% for
most used, intermediate use and least used respectively (Kruskal-Wallis
equality-of-populations rank test; chi-square (2 d.f.; α = 0.05) =
11.54; p-value = 0.0031) ( Figure 12) .