Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics

This course is a basic course on veterinary epidemiology and economics. Specific diseases and their symptoms, prevention, therapy and economic effects will be used as an illustration of the following aspects:

• health and disease, how to diagnose, and which organisations involved;
• types of disease, pathogen transmission, available preventive measures;
• types and design of epidemiological studies, analysis and interpretation;
• basic economic principles and methods used in decision making regarding animal health problems;
• design of disease eradication and/or prevention programmes.

• Describe several aspects of animal health and disease

• Give examples of eradication, control and prevention of animal diseases

• Design basic epidemiological studies

• Calculate epidemiological parameters and interpret the outcomes

• Understand and apply basic economic methods for decision making regarding animal health problems

• Understand eradication and/or prevention based on epidemiological and economic criteria

• Written test with open and closed questions (100%) The book is an open book exam, i.e. the student is allowed to use the paper book, printed handouts, own summary (handwritten or printed), a simple scientific hardware calculator. The exam is usually based on (parts of) scientific papers. There is one final grade; there are no partial grades..

Basic and advanced statistics courses

• Course guide and schedule are available on first lecture. Course book: Veterinary Epidemiology (4th, 2018, Thrusfield with Christley) ISBN 9781118280287