Postgraduate Course: Livestock management impacts on disease risk & control (VESC11077)
Course Outline
| School | Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The students will gain an understanding of how different farm management practices influence disease risk, through the complex interplay between livestock behaviour, farm environment, wildlife reservoirs, and surveillance approaches. The course will consider these interactions at the farm scale (e.g. the interplay between grazing management practices and parasite risk) and at the industry scale (e.g. industry disease control schemes and between farm livestock trading patterns). |
| Course description |
Introduction to the concepts of:
Definitions of host roles in disease systems and the evidence required to identify a wildlife reservoir
Wildlife population monitoring and disease surveillance
Interplay between livestock behaviour and farm management practice and disease risk
Livestock movements (industry structure and trade) and disease risk
Principles of modelling disease dynamics and management scenarios for livestock and wildlife
Livestock disease surveillance
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand the role of host communities in maintaining disease risk to livestock
- Know the principles of modelling disease dynamics and management scenarios
- Understand how to predict disease risk consequences of grazing management strategies
- Discuss livestock trading patterns in terms of disease risk and national disease prevalence and control
- Undertake a critical review of mathematical modelling studies of livestock disease control
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | routes of transmission,livestock trade,farm management |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Mike Hutchings
Tel: (0131) 535 3200
Email: mike.hutchings@sruc.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Dr Spiridoula Athanasiadou
Tel: (0131 6)51 9355
Email: spiridoula.athanasiadou@sruc.ac.uk |
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