Veterinary medicine - a cornestone of public health
2012
Lunden, J., University of Helsinki (Finland). Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Dept. of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health
Public health achievements are the result of the knowledge, actions and efforts of several disciplines and professions. Veterinary medicine and the work of veterinarians contribute to public health in many sectors in a significant manner. The role of the veterinarians in public health has been important from 18th century to this date and it has increased substantially during the last decades. The primary reasons in a modern society to educate veterinarians are to protect human health and national economy. The role of veterinarians in small animal health is of course important, but the main tasks are still in food safety and environmental health control. The aim of food safety and environmental health control is to ensure a healthy living environment for people, which includes food and drinking water, swimming water, indoor-air quality and product safety control, animal welfare and prevention of communicable animal diseases and zoonotic agents. E.g. diseases transmitted from animals to humans via food and water is one of the most important issues in human health worldwide, because they cause death and huge economic losses for governments. It is therefore not an overstatement to say, that the understanding of food and water safety are a basis for human health.
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