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31881 - Veterinary Public Health

Academic Year 2018/2019

                
                        Docente:
                        Antonietta Di Francesco
                    
                        Credits:
                        2
                    
                        SSD:
                        VET/05
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in
                            Veterinary Medicine (cod. 8617)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to give a good knowledge of veterinary public health topics, with a particular attention to the epidemiology and control of zoonoses. The student must also know the main veterinary public health activities, performed by the Veterinary Public Services.

Course contents

Veterinary public health concept. Man / animals / environment relationships. National and international institutions attending to veterinary public health. Topics of veterinary public health.

Zoonosis concept. Man and animals as hosts of zoonotic agents. Human lifestyles and activities that influence the epidemiology of zoonoses. The way of transmission of the zoonotic agents. Notifiable zoonoses. Epidemiological surveillance of zoonoses. Persons at risk. Occupational risks. Emerging and re-emerging zoonoses.Veterinary public health activities of public Veterinary Services. Professional veterinary skills in non-apidemic emergencies. Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies. West Nile Disease and leishmaniosis: Integrated Surveillance Plans.

Readings/Bibliography

-Battelli G., Baldelli R., Ostanello F., Prosperi S., Eds – Gli animali, l'uomo e l'ambiente. Ruolo sociale della Sanità Pubblica Veterinaria. Bononia University Press, Bologna, 2013.
Teaching materials from the teacher.

Teaching methods

The teaching consists of traditional lectures. In some of these lectures VPH experts are involved on specific topics.

Assessment methods

Oral examination. The exam is carried out or as a partial examination or with the contextual examination of the course "Infectious Diseases, Prophylaxis and Police Employed in Veterinary Health and Hygiene Surveillance”, within the integrated course "Infectious Diseases and Public Health". The final score of the integrated course represents the synthesis of the final evaluations of the two courses, taking into account the different weight of these. The evaluation obtained in each of the two courses keeps valid for six month

Teaching tools

PC projector, overhead projector, slide projector, network connected PC, VCR.

Office hours

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