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Introduction to the Program
Si tu objetivo es reorientar tu capacidad hacia nuevos caminos de éxito y desarrollo, este es tu sitio: una especialización que aspira a la excelencia”
Esta Postgraduate diploma en Epidemiología en Salud Animal es una propuesta para los profesionales con el fin de identificar las epidemias en el campo animal. El programa busca brindar información actualizada y reciente sobre los principales virus del reino animal, así como su propagación entre especies y posibles curas.
La primera parte del programa analiza las diferentes implicaciones de la ecología en la sanidad animal desde el análisis de la ecología en poblaciones, el impacto ambiental y el uso de los recursos naturales en el desarrollo sostenible en las diferentes especies animales de importancia económica y especies silvestres.
De esta forma, el programa es un compendio de información actualizada para los profesionales veterinarios. De forma que mediante un completo formato digital el profesional tendrá acceso a un material audiovisual, con ejercicios prácticos y lecturas complementarias.
Es por ello que, con este programa los profesionales tendrán una oportunidad única en el sector epidemiológico. No obstante, perfeccionará sus conocimientos y ampliará sus aptitudes de cara al sector profesional de los siguientes años.
Con un diseño metodológico que se apoya en técnicas de enseñanza contrastadas por su eficacia, este novedoso te llevará a través de diferentes abordajes docentes para permitirte aprender de forma dinámica y eficaz”
Esta Postgraduate diploma en Epidemiology in Animal Health contiene el programa científico más completo y actualizado del mercado. Sus características más destacadas son:
- Última tecnología en software de enseñanza online
- Sistema docente intensamente visual, apoyado en contenidos gráficos y esquemáticos de fácil asimilación y comprensión
- Desarrollo de casos prácticos presentados por expertos en activo
- Sistemas de vídeo interactivo de última generación
- Enseñanza apoyada en la telepráctica
- Sistemas de actualización y reciclaje permanente
- Aprendizaje autorregulable: total compatibilidad con otras ocupaciones
- Ejercicios prácticos de autoevaluación y constatación de aprendizaje
- Grupos de apoyo y sinergias educativas: preguntas al experto, foros de discusión y conocimiento
- Comunicación con el docente y trabajos de reflexión individual
- Disponibilidad de los contenidos desde cualquier dispositivo fijo o portátil con conexión a internet
- Bancos de documentación complementaria disponible permanentemente, incluso después de finalizar la capacitación
Desarrollarás herramientas y competencias cognitivas, comunicativas y profesionales específicas, para la evaluación, valoración, medición y solución de problemas relacionados con el Bienestar Animal”
Nuestro personal docente está integrado por profesionales de diferentes ámbitos relacionados con esta especialidad. De esta manera nos aseguramos de ofrecerte el objetivo de actualización educativa que pretendemos. Un cuadro multidisciplinar de profesionales preparados y experimentados en diferentes entornos que desarrollarán los conocimientos teóricos de manera eficiente, pero, sobre todo, pondrán a tu servicio los conocimientos prácticos derivados de su propia experiencia: una de las cualidades diferenciales de esta especialización.
Este dominio de la materia se complementa con la eficacia del diseño metodológico. Elaborado por un equipo multidisciplinario de expertos en e-learning integra los últimos avances en tecnología educativa. De esta manera, podrás estudiar con un elenco de herramientas multimedia cómodas y versátiles que te darán la operatividad que necesitas en tu capacitación.
El diseño de este programa está basado en el Aprendizaje Basado en Problemas: un planteamiento que concibe el aprendizaje como un proceso eminentemente práctico. Para conseguirlo de forma remota, usaremos la telepráctica: con la ayuda de un novedoso sistema de vídeo interactivo, y el learning from an expert podrás adquirir los conocimientos como si estuvieses enfrentándote al supuesto que estás aprendiendo en ese momento. Un concepto que te permitirá integrar y fijar el aprendizaje de una manera más realista y permanente.
Con la experiencia de profesionales en activo y el análisis de casos reales de éxito, en un planteamiento educativo de alto impacto"
Incorpórate a la élite, con esta especialización de alta eficacia educativa y abre nuevos caminos a tu progreso profesional"
Syllabus
The contents have been developed by different specialists in the area, with a clear purpose: to ensure that our students acquire each and every one of the skills necessary to become true experts in this field.
A complete and well-structured program that will take you to the highest standards of quality and success.
A comprehensive teaching program, structured in well-developed teaching units, oriented towards learning that is compatible with your personal and professional life"
Module 1. Important Animal Production and Health Aspects
1.1. Animal Production
1.1.1. Introduction
1.1.2. Current Situation of the Sector
1.1.3. Role of the Veterinarian
1.2. Animal Production Systems
1.2.1. Intensive
1.2.2. Alternative Systems
1.2.2.1. Extensive Production
1.2.2.2. Ecological Production
1.3. Livestock Production
1.3.1. Biosecurity Measures
1.3.2. Vaccination and Treatment Plans
1.4. Animal Welfare
1.4.1. Current Situation
1.4.2. Animal Welfare Measures
1.5. Impacts of Livestock Production on Public Health
1.5.1. Concept of One Health
1.5.2. Zoonotic Diseases
1.5.2.1. Main Zoonotic Diseases
1.5.2.2. Declaration to the Competent Authority
1.7.3. Resistance to Antibiotics
1.7.3.1. Importance of Antibiotic Resistance
1.7.3.2. Categorization of Antibiotics from the Point of View of their Use in Animals
1.8. Impact of Animal Production on Food Safety
1.8.1. Food Safety
1.8.2. Major Foodborne Diseases
1.8.3. Declaration
1.9. Notifiable Diseases of Livestock
1.9.1. Introduction
1.9.2. Main Diseases
1.9.3. Notification
1.10. Competent Veterinary Medicine and Animal Health Authorities
1.10.1. Introduction
1.10.2. National Veterinary Corps
1.10.3. Regional Offices and Veterinary Units
1.11. Reference Laboratories
1.11.1. Introduction
1.11.2. Sensitivity and Specificity
1.11.3. Sample Collection Tables
Module 2. Ecology and Animal Welfare
2.1. Introduction to Ecology
2.1.1. Ecology Definition
2.1.2. Abiotic Factors
2.1.3. Biotic Factors
2.1.4. City
2.1.5. Community
2.2. Population Ecology
2.2.1. Reproductive Patterns
2.2.2. Extinction
2.2.3. Biogeography
2.2.4. Interspecific Competition
2.3. Environmental Impact
2.3.1. Definition
2.3.2. Causes of Environmental Deterioration
2.3.3. Population Growth
2.3.4. Consumerism
2.4. Natural Resources
2.4.1. Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources
2.4.2. Alternative energy sources
2.4.3. Protected Areas
2.4.4. Sustainable Development
2.5. General Aspects of Animal Welfare
2.5.1. Concept of Animal Welfare
2.5.1.1. Introduction
2.5.1.2. History
2.5.2. Definitions of Animal Welfare
2.5.2.1. Historical Definitions of Animal Welfare
2.5.3. Impact of the Environment on Animal Welfare
2.5.4. Health Alert Plans
2.5.5. Physiology and Biochemistry
2.5.5.1. Introduction
2.5.6. Physiology
2.5.7. Biochemistry
2.5.8. The Five Animal Needs
2.5.8.1. Suitable Environment
2.5.8.2. Adequate Diet
2.5.8.3. Normal Behavior
2.5.8.4. Adequate Housing
2.5.8.5. Pain, Suffering, Injury and Illness
2.5.9. Stress and Animal Welfare
2.5.9.1. Relationship between Stress and Animal Welfare
2.5.10. Social Aspects of Animal Welfare
2.5.11. Principles of Animal Welfare
2.5.11.1. What are the Basic Principles of Animal Welfare?
2.5.12. Assessment of Animal Welfare
2.5.12.1. Important Aspects to evaluate Animal Welfare
2.6. Animal Behavior
2.6.1. Applied Ethology
2.6.1.1. What is Ethology?
2.6.1.2. Application of Ethology
2.6.2. Learning and Social Behavior
2.6.2.1. Types of Behavior
2.6.2.2. Social Behavior
2.6.3. Biology of Animal Suffering
2.6.4. Feeding
2.6.5. Normal and Abnormal Behavior Patterns
2.6.5.1. Normal Behavior
2.6.5.2. Abnormal Behaviors
2.6.6. Interactions Between Groups of Animals
2.6.6.1. Types of interactions
2.6.7. Causes of Stress
2.6.7.1. Types of Interactions
2.6.7.2. Stressors
2.6.7.3. Physiological Responses to Stress
2.6.8. General Adaptation Syndrome
2.6.9. Animal Sense Organs in Relation to Stress and Injury
2.6.9.1. Introduction
2.6.9.2. Sensory Organs
2.6.10. Animal Welfare and Ethology
2.6.10.1. Introduction
2.6.10.2. Relationship of Sciences in Animal Welfare
2.7. One Health
2.7.1. One Welfare, One Health
2.7.1.1. Introduction One Health
2.7.1.2. Economic and Environmental Benefits
2.7.1.3. Health Benefits
2.7.2. International Animal Welfare Standards
2.7.3. World Organization for Animal Health (OIE)
2.7.4. OIE International Standards
2.7.5. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
2.7.6. World Animals Protection (WAP)
2.7.7. Animal Welfare Standards on the Farm
2.7.8. International Consumers
2.7.9. Welfare Quality Project
2.7.9.1. Introduction
2.7.9.2. Types of Valuations
2.7.10. Animal Welfare Labeling
2.8. Animal Welfare Indicators
2.8.1. Types of Indicators
2.8.2. Biomarkers of Stress as Indicators of Animal Welfare
2.8.2.1. Types of Indicators
2.8.3. Welfare Assessment Protocols
2.8.4. Criteria for Animal Welfare Assessment
2.8.5. Animal Welfare Problems and Their Effects on Animal Health and Production
2.8.6. Health
2.8.7. Diseases
2.8.8. Physiology and Biochemistry
2.8.9. Productivity
2.8.10. Stressors
2.8.10.1. Introduction
2.8.10.2. Types of Stressors
Module 3. Epidemiology in Animal Health
3.1. Concepts and Basis of Epidemiology
3.1.1. Basic Concepts in Epidemiology
3.1.2. The Individual and the Population
3.1.3. Basic concepts of Population Monitoring
3.1.4. Causality and Association
3.1.5. Basic Pathology Concepts
3.1.6. Epidemiology and Demography
3.1.7. Disease and Infection Patterns
3.1.8. Uncertainty in Epidemiology
3.2. Experimental Design in Epidemiology
3.2.1. Data Collection in Epidemiology
3.2.2. Sampling Design
3.2.3. Stratification, Representativeness, Balance
3.2.4. Types of Epidemiological Sampling
3.2.5. Sample Size Estimates
3.2.6. Sampling Biases
3.3. Descriptive Epidemiology I. Theoretical Bases
3.3.1. Epidemiological Research
3.3.2. Types of Observational Epidemiological Studies
3.3.3. Types of Epidemiological Variables
3.3.4. Descriptive Parameters
3.3.5. Measures of Dispersion
3.3.6. Probability Distributions
3.3.7. Epidemic Curves, Cycles, and Trends
3.3.8. Development of Hypotheses
3.4. Descriptive Epidemiology II. Data Analysis
3.4.1. Open-Access Epidemiological Software
3.4.2. Sample Size Estimates
3.4.3. Probability Distribution Analysis
3.4.4. Descriptive Analysis
3.4.5. Association Analysis
3.4.6. Applications to Diagnostic Tests
3.4.7. Analysis of Absence of Disease/Infection
3.5. Analytical Epidemiology I. Theoretical Basis
3.5.1. Basis of Analytical Epidemiology
3.5.2. Hypothesis Analysis
3.5.3. Epidemiological Parameters
3.5.4. Independence of Observations
3.5.5. Case-control Studies
3.5.6. Cohort Studies
3.5.7. Experimental Studies
3.5.8. Basis of Multivariate Analysis
3.6. Analytical Epidemiology II. Data Analysis
3.6.1. Estimates of Association in Case-Control Studies
3.6.2. Estimates of Association in Cohort Studies
3.6.3. Inference in Experimental Studies
3.6.4. Biases and Limitations in Analytical Epidemiology
3.6.5. Multivariate Analysis
3.7. Analysis of Risk Factors
3.7.1. Definition of Risk Factor
3.7.2. Multidisciplinary Approach to Risk Factor Analysis
3.7.3. Qualitative Risk Analysis
3.7.4. Quantitative Risk Analysis
3.7.5. Applications of Mathematical Modeling in Risk Analysis 4.7.6
3.8. Spatial Epidemiology
3.8.1. Basis of Spatial Epidemiology
3.8.2. Contagiousness, Transmission, and Basic Reproductive Rate
3.8.3. Spatial Connectivity
3.8.4. Spatial Dispersal Patterns
3.8.5. Molecular Epidemiology
3.8.6. Disease/Infection Maps
3.8.7. Spatial Correlation Studies
3.8.8. Cluster Analysis
3.8.9. Network Analysis
3.9. Applications of Epidemiology for Prevention and Control
3.9.1. Design of Risk-Based Prevention Strategies
3.9.2. Design of Biosecurity Measures
3.9.3. Control of Risk Factors
3.9.4. Mathematical Models applied to Prevention and Control
3.10. Veterinary Health Management
3.10.1. Epidemiological Surveillance Concepts and Systems
3.10.2. Concepts in Veterinary Health Management
3.10.3. Hygiene and Prevention
3.10.4. Zoning
A unique, key and decisive training experience to boost your professional development"
Postgraduate Diploma in Epidemiology in Animal Health
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Epidemiology in animal health is the branch of epidemiology dedicated to the study of diseases affecting animals and their relationship with the environment in which they live and reproduce. This discipline is responsible for the analysis and investigation of the distribution, risk factors and causes of animal diseases, in order to prevent and control them.
Epidemiology in animal health covers several areas, such as disease identification and monitoring, implementation of vaccination and control programs, and epidemiological surveillance to detect outbreaks and epidemics. It is also concerned with assessing the effects of environmental factors, such as climate and geography, on the spread of disease.
Professionals working in animal health epidemiology include veterinarians, biologists, microbiologists, epidemiologists and public health experts. These specialists cooperate with health authorities and other professionals involved in animal care, from diagnosing and treating diseases to implementing preventive measures and controlling their spread.
This online academic program seeks to provide students with a comprehensive training in animal health epidemiology. Students will learn about basic concepts in animal epidemiology, its history and evolution, and the importance of its application in animal health. In addition, they will be taught about the design and analysis of epidemiological studies in animals, from population selection to applied statistical methods. The program will also focus on pathologies and diseases in animal health, including diagnostic tests, zoonotic diseases and prevention and control techniques being available in the animal population. Finally, research and practical applications of epidemiology in animal health will be discussed, as well as ethics and responsibility in animal epidemiology research. Learning will take place through theoretical and practical modules, which will include exercises, teamwork, discussions and case studies.