Public Health

Code:

MV425

Acronym:

SP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Food Hygiene

Instance: 2022/2023 - 2S (of 13-02-2023 to 09-06-2023)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Population Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Masters Degree in Veterinary Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIMV	48	Official Study Plan	4	-	4,5	56	121,5

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The purpose it to equip students with the concepts and fundamentals of Veterinary Public Health (SPV) as it is understood at present. The teaching includes knowledge of the political, economic and social framework needed to understand the SPV. The students, at the end of the course, shall have the interpretive keys to enable them to understand and meet the expectations of society towards the performance of veterinarians in the exercise of their profession. The contents of the discipline addresses the scientific, technical and legal relevant issues as well as the methodologies adopted to ensure food safety, animal health and welfare of the animals thus contributing to the high levels of public health that European citizens rightly expect from the systems of food production and the food chain as a whole.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students get to know the scope, duties and skills required of Veterinary Public Health. Begin to master the principles of Food safety and methods to achieve them including the instruments for control and monitoring applicable from the primary production-to consumption of foodstuffs, through all stages of the chain. They begin to know the applicable law and are to understand the relevant issues relating to animal welfare and public health problem of the emergence of antimicrobial resistance.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Explanation of the program. Each topic coincides with one hour of lecture or two hours of classroom seminar. The sequence of lessons and topics may be subject to change.

1. Presentation of the Course 2. Introduction to Veterinary Public Health - One World One Health 3. Food safety - Fundamentals, principles, objectives and framework 4. International organizations and SPV 5. Epidemiology of foodborne diseases; 6. Factors influencing the metabolism of microorganisms in foods 7. Food Law (LA): Reg 178/2002 8. Fundamentals of prevention of changes in food 9. LA: Legislation operator 10. Risk Analysis in Food and Animal Health; 11.Sistemas Quality companies; 12. Objectives of food safety and microbiological criteria; 13.Prevenção and control of safety and quality of food I - HACCP; 14.Prevention and control of safety and quality of food II - GOOD PRACTICE; 15.Acreditação and certification, international organizations and European brands ; 16.Rastreabilidade, 17 and 18. LA: Legislation of official controls; 19.Well animal welfare: concepts and fundamental laws.

Presentations in the form of seminars; 1. Organization and functions of veterinary services in Portugal 2. Control performed by TRACES and PIF 3. Veterinary medicinal product legislation and associated resistances to antibiotics 4. ISO 9000 system and process organization.

Examples of topics to be discussed in the form of monographs: 1. West Nile Virus 2. Control Salmonella in livestock species 3. International Organizations and Veterinary Public Health, 4. A World A Health - Food safety (food security); 5. Training and lifelong education; 6. Q fever 7. Tularaemia; Anger 8.

Mandatory literature

S.F. Altekruse, M.L. Cohen, and D.L. Swerdlow; Emerging Foodborne Diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1997
Paul S. Mead, Laurence Slutsker, Vance Dietz, Linda F. McCaig, Joseph S. Bresee, Craig Shapiro, Patricia M. Griffin, and Robert V. Tauxe; Food-Related Illness and Death in the United States, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1999
Robert V. Tauxe; Emerging Foodborne Diseases: An Evolving Public Health Challenge, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1997
J. Rocourt, G. Moy, K. Vierk and J. Schlundt; The present state of foodborne disease in OECD countries, WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data, 2003. ISBN: 92 4 159109 9
Mossel D. A. A.; Microbiologia de los alimentos. ISBN: 84-200-0561-4
Diane Benford; PRINCIPLES OF RISK ASSESSMENT OF FOOD AND DRINKING WATER RELATED TO HUMAN HEALTH, ILSI Europe, 2001. ISBN: 1-57881-124-4
The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) Annual Report 2008, European Communities, 2009. ISBN: 978-92-79-11202-7
THE COMMUNITY SUMMARY REPORT ON TRENDS AND SOURCES OF ZOONOSES AND ZOONOTIC AGENTS AND FOOD-BORNE OUTBREAKS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION IN 2008, The EFSA Journal (2010), 1496, 2010
Regulamento (CE) nº183/2005, 2005
Regulamento (CE) nº2073/2005, 2005
Regulamento (CE) nº1441/2007, 2007
Regulamento (CE) nº854/2004, 2004
Regulamento (CE) nº853/2004, 2004
Regulamento (CE) nº852/2004, 2004
Regulamento (CE) nº882/2004, 2004
Regulamento (CE) nº178/2002, 2002

Complementary Bibliography

Jean-Louis Cordier; Microbiological criteria – Purpose and limitations, Mitt. Lebensm. Hyg. 95, 28–31, 2004
Martin Cole; Food safety objectives – Concept and current status, Mitt. Lebensm. Hyg. 95, 13–20, 2004
Leon Gorris; Performance objectives and performance criteria – Two sides of the food chain, Mitt. Lebensm. Hyg. 95, 21–27, 2004

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures: oral presentation of topics. Practical classes: document analysis and discussion of the case law. Monographs: performing work on the themes proposed monoigrafia advance. Seminary classes presented by invited speakers.

keywords

Health sciences > Medical sciences > Veterinary medicine > Animal hygiene
Health sciences > Medical sciences > Veterinary medicine > Zoonesis
Health sciences > Medical sciences > Veterinary medicine > Animal health

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Participação presencial	10,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	40,00
Frequência das aulas	56,00
Trabalho de investigação	25,50
Total:	121,50

Eligibility for exams

1. Teoritical examination 50%.
2. Group monography 40%.
3. Pratical classes 10%

Calculation formula of final grade

Final Rating = (0.5 * Note the final exam) + (0.4 * Note of the Monograph) + (0.1 * Note from the participation in the discussions in practical classes  and written reports of thepractical work)

Prerequisites for final approval:
1. Required minimum score of 10 (9.5) on the written examination and in the monography. 2 Attendance is compulsory at least 75% of theoretical and practical classes and delivery of their respective reports. 3.  Attendance is compulsory at seminar classes.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Monographs: Control of Salmonella in pigs; West Nile Virus; international organizations and Veterinary Public Health; Concept of One World One Health and implications for teh Veterinary Profession.

Observations

The bibliography and abstracts of the course are available in PDF on the site.