Development of guidelines on the organization of animal health visits and implementation of a pilot project to evaluate the effectiveness of the developed guidelines Project leader Laima Liepa Team of project Aija MÄlniece Linda Valkovska Ruta Medne Duration 2023 - 2024 Research focus 1. Implementation of the "One Health" concept and species interaction studies in the context of climate change Source of funding Ministry of Agriculture projects Description of project The aim of research Create Guidelines for Animal Health Visits for Cows, Sheep, Goats, Pigs, Poultry and Fish. The tasks of project: Prepare uniform animal health visit guidelines for visits by practicing veterinarians to terrestrial animal and aquaculture holdingsTo compile and evaluate various risk factors that need to be taken into account to define the optimal number of veterinary visits to different animal facilitiesPrepare a list of animal keeping facilities that should be included in the list of facilities where, depending on the risk factors created, animal health visits must be mandatoryDevelop an animal health visit formImplement a pilot project to evaluate the effectiveness of the prepared guidelines Results The first version of the Guidelines for visits to livestock and fisheries of terrestrial productive animals has been developed; Development and completion of DZAV questionnaires in animal herds, analysis of results;The frequency of DZVA and the objects where they must be carried out were determined, assessing the risks
