Unit name | One Health |
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Unit code | VETS30034 |
Credit points | 40 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Professor. Tarlton |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
All 1st, 2nd and 3rd Year units |
Co-requisites |
All other 4th year Units |
School/department | Bristol Veterinary School |
Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
The One Health unit is aimed at improving the understanding of animal and human health and disease and the impact on and interactions with the environment.
Aims of the Unit
2. To provide competency in critical analysis and management of data and study outcomes
Lectures and Seminars and data handling assignment
Students will undertake a 3 hr unseen written paper (100%) (Learning outcome 1), and also a data handling question (Learning outcome 2).
Students will undertake a MUST ENGAGE exercise in data handling which will receive formative feedback (Learning outcome 1)
Resit – as above
These will mostly be journal articles relevant to the teaching which are current at the time of delivery of the lectures.
Veterinary Epidemiology: An Introduction By Dirk Pfeiffer ISBN 1405176946, 9781405176941
http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/ One Health Initiative
http://www.one-health.eu/ee/index.php/en Animals + Humans = One Health
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/one-health/ One World, One Health, One Medicine and One Health Journals and Special Issues sections on the links page.
Veterinary Epidemiology, Third Edition, Michael Thrusfield ISBN-10: 0632063971; ISBN-13: 978-0632063970
Veterinary Epidemiologic Research - 2nd Edition, Ian Dohoo, Wayne Martin and Henrik Stryhn, featuring our very own Prof Bill Bowne in the chapter on Bayesian Stats. http://www.upei.ca/ver/
Handbook of Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine, Peter Cockcroft & Mark Holmes, ISBN-10: 1405108908 | ISBN-13: 978-1405108904
Statistics for Veterinary and Animal Science, Aviva Petrie & Paul Watson, ISBN-10: 063205025X | ISBN-13: 978-0632050253