| Department of Large Animal Sciences | |||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | Post experience Master´s Programme | ||||||||||||
| Duration | Outside schedule | ||||||||||||
| Credits | 8 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
| Course Level | Post experience masters programme Module 4, Master Programme in Veterinary Public Health | ||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination written examination and oral examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: Each participant must submit a project report. The report is defended at an oral exam with 15 minutes presentation and 15 minutes for questions from the examiners. Weight: Weight Project report counts 70% and the oral exam counts 30% 7-point scale, external examiner | ||||||||||||
| Requirement For Attending Exam | Participation in the whole course | ||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Lectures and exercises (1:1) take place in the class room. | ||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Outside schedule Week Structure: Outside schedule, The course lasts two separate weeks with approximately 4 weeks between. | ||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||
| Mandatory Prerequisites | The participant is required to have completed a basic education e.g. DVM. | ||||||||||||
| Restrictions | 20 | ||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||
| Lectures and exercises during Part 1 (week 1): This part focus on basic economic principles. - Introduction - What is economics about? - Animal health economics and veterinary epidemiology - Conceptualising disease as an economic problem - The concept of elasticity for supply and demand - Who gains, and who loses from animal disease control? - Sense and nonsense in measuring the costs of disease. - Further dimensions to animal health economics. - Writing and appraising economics reports. - Class exercise and reporting back,and summing up Lectures and exercises during Part 2 (week 2): This part focus on applications of economic principles. - Decision analysis. - Benefit cost analysis. - Microeconomics and decision support systems - with examples of case studies. - Reed Frost models and summing up | |||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||
| Participants are provided with introductory texts to read before the course. During the course lectures and exercises are given in alternating order with a ratio of 1:1. Participants work individually and in groups at the theoretical and at the practical exercises, and with emphasis on the understanding of basic principles during part 1, and emphasis on practical applicaiton of basic principles during part 2. After the course master students must select a topic for the individual project report relevant for the daily job or for the competences the participant wants to achive. The course lasts 2 weeks (75 hours), and the project, report writing and exam is expected to last ca. 145 hours. | |||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||
| At the end of the course, it is expected that the participant can do the following: Knowledge: - define, identify and describe links between economics and disease outbreaks in farm animals - handle basic economic principles relevant for quantifying costs of disease control - from an economic view critically select among alternative control strategies Skills: - participate in the analysis of links between economics and disease impact on production and society - from an economic view point argue for specific disease control decisions to farmers, the veterinary practitioner and the official veterinarian and to the public. Comptences: - collaborate scientifically and administratively with economists in evaluations of the economic impact of a disease outbreak - participate in the development,planning and decision of economic approaches to disease control - take responsibility and participate in choosing among alternative disease control strategies from an economic point of view. | |||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||
| Jens Frederik Gramstrup Agger, jfa@life.ku.dk, Department of Large Animal Sciences/Populationsbiology, Phone: 35333013 | |||||||||||||
| Attendance Fee | |||||||||||||
| DKK 14000 | |||||||||||||
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