Description

Overview:

The principles of veterinary epidemiology are identical to those of human epidemiology, with the exception that they are applied to animal populations rather than human populations. As such, veterinary and human epidemiology can be viewed as forms of the same overarching discipline of epidemiology. Epidemiology is principally concerned with the investigation of disease within populations (although the same principles are also applicable to investigation of other characteristics, such as animal welfare or productivity), and is based on the concept that disease often does not occur in a random fashion. That is, various characteristics of the animal, the pathogenic agent (or agents) and the environment interact in order to alter the probability of disease occurrence. Epidemiology aims to identify these factors and to describe disease in the population.

Subject:

Natural Science

Level:

Graduate / Professional, Career / Technical

Material Type:

Diagram/Illustration, Reading

Provider:

WikiVet

Provider Set:

Veterinary Epidemiology

Date Added:

12/27/2018