Abstract

The aim of this study was to formally evaluate, qualitatively, the ability of existing recording systems to generate accurate and reliable estimates of the frequency of selected health conditions in...

Highlights

  • Animal health surveillance has become a keystone of veterinary disease control (Doherr and Audige 2001; O’Neill and others 2014)

  • We used an adaptation of the SERVAL system, which was originally proposed for the evaluation of animal health surveillance to ascertain whether a surveillance system is meeting its objectives

  • In our evaluation we prioritised attributes in order to identify recording systems that can produce reliable and accurate estimates of important health conditions at national level and the same attributes were assessed for all the systems as opposed to the attribute selection based on the objectives of the individual recording systems as it is described in the SERVAL framework (Drewe and others 2015)

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Introduction

Animal health surveillance has become a keystone of veterinary disease control (Doherr and Audige 2001; O’Neill and others 2014). It can be defined as “the systematic, continuous or repeated measurement, collection, collation, analysis, interpretation and timely dissemination of animal health and welfare related data from defined populations” (Hoinville and others 2013; Drewe and others 2015). To protect animal and human health, good surveillance needs to be in place to allow appropriate actions to be taken to control any potential risks quickly and effectively (Drewe and others 2015). Good quality data at national level are needed to support and inform continuous improvements in dairy cattle health and production.

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