Veterinary public health
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (November 2013) |
Veterinary public health (VPH) is a component of
Conventionally veterinary public health as a topic covers the following areas:
Food production and safety
It is desirable to consider food production as a chain, with animals reared on the
Veterinary public health concerns all aspects of food production chain from controlling epidemic diseases that may impact on agriculture, to ensuring slaughter is conducted safely and humanely, to informing the public on safe ways to store and cook hamburgers.
Zoonosis control
A zoonosis may be defined as any disease and/or infection which is naturally transmissible between animals and man.[2]
They are a major public concern. Headlines on issues like avian influenza, BSE (mad cow disease) and salmonella of eggs have dominated the UK newspaper headlines for the last thirty years.
The picture in developed and developing countries may be quite different as far as
Veterinary public health concerns the surveillance and control of zoonoses at many different levels be it via disease control programmes at farm level or
Environmental contamination
In addition, practising vets will also produce potential environmental
All of these materials have to be dealt with in a safe and controlled way. (See the section Environmental Contamination on WikiVet.)
Role of animals in society
This aspect of veterinary public health deals with a number of ethical issues. Welfare of animals is an ever present issue regardless of the setting, whether it concerns pet animals, production animals or wild animals.
Where the line that defines acceptable and unacceptable welfare conditions lies is different for different individuals from different countries and cultures; however, it is common for minimum welfare standards to be defined in legislation.[4]
Other issues may concern the use of animals in
References
- ^ "Future Trends in Veterinary Public Health", World Health Organ Tech Rep Ser. 2002;907:i-vii, 1-85, back cover.
- ^ WHO-Zoonoses
- ^ "Main conclusions on the Community Summary Report on Zoonoses 2006", The EFSA Journal (2007) 130
- ^ Legislation
- ^ Antimicrobial Resistance
- As of this edit, this article uses content from "Introduction to VPH", which is licensed in a way that permits reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, but not under the GFDL. All relevant terms must be followed.
- WikiVet
| Authority control databases: National |
|---|
