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Informationen zum Autor Robert F. Kahrs is the author of Global Livestock Health Policy: Challenges, Opportunties and Strategies for Effective Action, published by Wiley. Klappentext Global Livestock Health Policy is designed to provide an understanding of the complexities of national and subnational animal and public health policies and how those policies impact domestic livestock industries. These policies shape domestic disease control programs, international trade, and food safety efforts. This book offers public policy makers and animal health officials in government and industry a foundation on which to institute scientifically sound national and subnational animal health programs; solidify infrastructures; enhance communication between legislators, regulators, and affected parties; and expedite international agreements for safe worldwide movement of animals and animal products in a global free market economy. Organized in eight free standing chapters which include case studies, a glossary and an epilogue, this arrangement leads readers progressively through the events and decisions underlying the present US and global animal health policy status, lays out challenges facing the US and other nations, describes the components of a credible and competitive animal health infrastructure, and puts forward strategies for achieving policies that are adaptable to global and domestic dynamics while addressing the multiple issues and interests bearing on animal health, animal welfare, and food safety. The case studies contain background information and questions for group discussions. The book is intended for use by animal health officials; agribusiness leaders; commodity groups; financial institutions; legislators and their staffs; importers and exporters of animals, animal products, biologics and pharmaceuticals; leadership of the regulatory, academic and diagnostic sectors of the agricultural and veterinary communities; consumers; or anyone else interested in protection, production, processing, and distribution of animals and related products. Zusammenfassung Helps understand the complexities of national and subnational animal and public health policies and how those policies impact domestic livestock industries. This book offers public policy makers and animal health officials in government and industry a foundation on which to institute scientifically sound animal health programs. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acronyms xi Preface xv 1. Livestock Health Policy: the Basics 3 Introduction 3 What Are Global Livestock Health Policies? 4 How Are Livestock Health Policies Developed? 4 Driving Forces and Framers of Livestock Health Policies 5 Elements of the Global Livestock Health Policy Hierarchy 9 International Livestock Health Policies 12 Administration of Livestock Health Policies 12 Communication of Livestock Health Policies 13 Broad-Based Constituencies and Complex Issues Create Challenges 13 Complex Interactions Among Science Politics and Culture 13 Livestock Health Information Sources 23 The Crucial Role of Communication in Livestock Health Polices 23 Bibliography 24 2. Twentieth Century Progress and Change in Livestock Health 25 Introduction 25 Changing Livestock Production and Management Systems 26 Advances in Livestock Breeding and Reproductive Efficiency 27 Advances in Diagnosis and Control of Metabolic Diseases 30 Advances in Diagnosis and Control of Toxicologic Diseases 31 Advances in Diagnosis and Control of Parasitic Diseases 32 Advances in Diagnosis and Control of Infectious Diseases 33 Emergence of Antimicrobials in Livestock Health 35 Advances in Immunology 40 Improved Vaccines for Livestock Diseases 41 Progress Toward Understandin...
