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Economic Principles and Concepts for the Veterinary Sciences

Economic issues play an important role in the often risky decisions that need to be made about disease control. The aim of this introductory course, which is intended for participants with an interest in the field of animal health economics, is to provide you with the basic economic principles and concepts that underlie decision-making about animal health problems.

Diseases have a significant influence on animal production and the animal trade. The economic consequences of diseases on an animal, herd and national level can be considerable and need to be investigated to successfully implement and evaluate animal health programs and policies. Many economic tools have been developed and are currently being applied to support decisions concerning animal health. This course will enable you to gain a basic knowledge of economic concepts and theory, thereby enabling you to better understand animal health economics and to apply economic tools more effectively.

By the end of the course, you should be able to:

  • Have a basic overview and understanding of the broad subject of economics
  • Discuss the role that economics play in the field of animal production

In particular, you should be able to:

  • Understand the economic decisions made by consumers by learning about the forces that influence consumer behavior, the concept of market demand and the concept of elasticity of demand
  • Understand the supply side of the market, as reflected in resource use and the production response of businesses (production function theory) and their reflection in the market supply curve
  • Understand the mechanisms behind clearing market prices as they are determined under perfect and imperfect competition conditions
  • Understand some of the background of the governmental role in food production and the ways in which the government can be involved in food production
  • Have some understanding of the principles underlying the growth and instability of international trade
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Our Professors

Wilma Steenveld PhD

Dr. ir. Steeneveld is Assistant Professor on Veterinary Economics at Utrecht University.

She teaches the online courses Applied Economic Modeling for the Veterinary Sciences and Economic Principles and Concepts for the Veterinary Sciences.

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The quality and the content of this distance learning course was excellent. I like the combination of self-reading, video lectures followed by assignments to reinforce the learning. First and foremost, the quality and the content of this distance learning course was excellent and it was run by a reputable institution. The teachers and moderator were experienced and competent. So the teachers were not teaching us from ivory towers but have had real life experiences to share. I like the combination of self-reading, video lectures followed by assignments to reinforce the learning.

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Quick overview

Start date: 26 Sep 2022

2.5 ECTS

Web lectures, exercises, group discussions

Duration: 6 weeks

Academic Certificate

English

Workload: 12 hrs-per-week

Online learning, with guidance and support

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How would you like to study Epidemiology?

Single courses

One of the unique aspects of our learning approach is that you can choose to take an individual course rather than the whole MSc program. Experience one course from the MSc, having the same faculty and classmates with the convenience of self-enrollment.
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Online

In the full part-time MSc Program, you gain extensive knowledge and practical skills in patient-oriented research design, quantitative analysis and its application to human or veterinary medicine. The MSc Epidemiology Online starts in February and September.
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Face-to-Face

If your prefer to study in a face-to-face setting, you might want to consider applying for the identical fulltime face-to-face 1,5 year program in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

This program also starts in September, with the same course offerings.

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Questions? Contact us

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For questions about online learning info@elevatehealth.eu
For program information, admission & content msc-epidemiology@umcutrecht.nl

By phone
For questions about online learning +31 (0)85 4885381
For program information, admission & content +31 (0)88 7569710

Master Structure

  • 8 core courses
  • 3 specialization tracks
  • Research project

Specializations

  • Clinical Epidemiology
  • Veterinary Epidemiology
  • General Epidemiology

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The study of Epidemiology

Epidemiology has grown to be an indispensable asset for researchers, clinicians and practitioners. Far reaching in its impact. It is the foundation of evidence-based medicine for the individual patient and the cornerstone of public health policy for societies.

Epidemiology as a scientific discipline is an excellent option; for the doctor, who wishes to be armed with both biomedical knowledge and statistical wisdom when looking for the right patient care of their individual patient. Also for the public health professional, who faced with global health questions does not wish to lose sight of the impact for the individual. And for the veterinarian who is faced with challenges that play a national role yet must look at the impact on individual cases.
 
 

A Master of Epidemiology at Utrecht University

Epidemiology at Utrecht University is uniquely placed to offer you the broad context of epidemiology across human pharmaceutical and veterinarian branches. Not least through having the only faculty of veterinary medicine in the Netherlands, its content has been assembled across an impressive faculty from the Health sciences; Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS) and the interfaculty Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS). In addition, Utrecht Science Park accommodates Utrecht Life Sciences, a strategic alliance between academia, public institutions private organizations and government in order to drive innovations in human and veterinary health care.

 
 

Online Education

It goes beyond the obvious advantages of online education, in the flexibility of allowing students to study at their institute of choice wherever their research or practice is. Online education at Utrecht University is where every student counts, each opinion being valued. It specifically helps students to develop skills on how to give and get the best out of feedback on assignments or research projects.

The MSc Epidemiology from Utrecht University has a unique history. The learning platform was custom built for this program. It was built with a global classroom in mind. Taking into account how to incorporate individual experiences and allow each unique perspective to make the learning experience the best possible and truly global. The content was meticulously converted to an online variant to take advantage of this.

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