Categories of health

1)Health as normality 2. Health as biological function 3. Health as homeostasis 4. Health as physical and
psychological well-being 5. Health as productivity including reproduction

Animal health should be maintained and enhanced through good preventative husbandry and
appropriate animal welfare, housing, and feeding systems,

Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in
specified populations, and the application of this study to the control of health problems,

Immunity is defined as resistance to disease, specifically infectious disease.

Immune system, collection of cells, tissues, and molecules that mediate resistance to infections.

Biosecurity, prevent the introduction of disease agents into the farm. Control the spread of disease
agents within the farm.

Immunology is the study of the immune system, including its responses to microbial pathogens and
damaged tissues and its role in disease,

Biohazard is a general term for any material of biological origin that may be hazardous to animals or
humans that contact the material.

Biocontainment to practices intended to minimize transmission of disease-causing agents that are

already present.

Morbidity is an illness due to a specific disease or health condition;

Mortality is death due to a specific disease or health condition

Immunology can be expressed as components that activate immune cells and initiate immune
responses

Determinants: are any factors that cause a change in a health condition or other defined characteristic

Distribution - implies that diseases and other health outcomes do not occur randomly in populations;

Frequency refers not only to the number of health events such as the number of cases diseases and
disorders in a population

Pattern refers to the occurrence of health-related events by time, place, and farm animals.

Time patterns may be annual, seasonal, weekly, daily, hour

Place patterns include geographic variation, urban/rural differences, and location

The coordinated reaction of these cells and molecules to infectious microbes comprises an immune
response.