Herd / Flock Health Planning Flashcards
What are Assurance Schemes?
- Mark the quality of product for the consumer
- Food safety
- accreditation of farm to meet certain standard
- ‘best practice’ for animals
- Animal welfare
- Food traceability
What does Herd Health management take into account?
- Population Medicine
- Health of the Herd
- Greatest good to greatest n°
- Individual animal medicine?
- Optimisation of productivity
- Treatment protocols
- SOPs
What do vets do for Herd health management?
Collate, Analyse & Problem solve
&
Motivate
Detail Data for vets
-Assurance scheme forms
- Farm production data
- On farm evidence (observation & scoring)
- On farm treatment records
Detail Vet’s Analysis
- KPI & Benchmarking
Detail Vet’s Problem solving
- Aims and objectives of the client
- Concerns/ constraints
- Output results
How do vets motivate?
- Actioning ideas
- Inspiring change
- Instilling confidence
WHat are Intrinsic factors that motivate change?
- BEleif systems
- Need recognition
- Attitude to risk
- Insufficient knowledge
- Lack of time
- Health / wellbeing
What extrinsic factors to motivate change?
- Money
- TIme
- COmpeting demands
- Social norms
- Weather
what are the phases of change?
recontemplation -> Contemplation -> Preparation -> Action -> Maintenance
Define Incidence
- Rate over time
- Defined population and time frame
- Usually considers cow years at risk
- Cases per cow or 100 cows per year
Define Prevalence
- Proportion of the population affected at a fixed point in time
- Typically clinical scoring data (lameness scoring)
Population at risk?
Population exposed to an event
What Questions to consider with data analysis ?
- How reliabel is the data ?
- What are the patterns?
- Are the patterns real and relevant ?
- what do the patterns tell us about farm risks ?
- What needs to change?
How do we go about benchmarking and target setting?
Criteion-referencing & Norm-referencing
