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
Examples of criterion referencing ?
- Industry-standard
- Farm assurance
- Milk buyer requirements
Examples of Norm-referencing?
- National or international average
- Similar/ local farms
- Ranking or quartiles
How do we go about norm-referencing?
- Identify and tagret KPIs (current herd health, future performance, external demands)
- Compare like for like
- Use same definitions
- Set appropriate targets
When does benchmarking come into play?
Between the monitoring and Problem solving phase
When does target setting come into play?
Between problem solving and Action
What is the ‘cercle’ of health planning?
Evaluate -> Monitor -> Problem solve -> Act ->
