Joint meeting VEE-VEEC-AESA

Description

Medicines are essential to safeguard the health of animals and humans. On the other hand, overreliance on medicines can lead to important side-effects such as direct health impacts for the animal or humans, undesired residues in the environment or food products or the development of resistance to antimicrobial and anthelmintic drugs. Responsible use of medicines requires a holistic approach of minimising disease and optimizing animal productivity through a range of tools including biosecurity, appropriate housing conditions and nutrition, breeding for resilience and use of diagnostics. Different approaches, driven by social and cultural differences, are used to enhance the responsible use of medicines. The final goal is to change human behaviour in how medicines
are used, but is human behaviour most effectively changed by rules or by working on internal motivators? Rules of which the relevance is not understood may be ignored, whereas internal motivators may not be strong enough to change the behaviour of a whole sector. This highlights the need to use social epidemiology and socio-psychological models to incorporate the influences of intrinsic motivations on people’s decision-making processes, whilst still
considering the external circumstances.
During this study day, we want to enhance the collaboration among the different
stakeholders of animal health, assisted by social scientists and communication
specialists to provide a context that facilitates a sustainable use of medicines by petowners, veterinarians and farmers.
Three renowned speakers in the field will share their experiences to achieve responsible and sustainable use of medicines in different areas across Europe.

Period	2-Oct-2017
Event type	Conference
Location	Liege, BelgiumShow on map