what are the Health Risks as a Vet?

[TheCatzFamily]

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dear all,

i'm a medical student in china, though i'm originally from thailand. i've enrolled in this class "occupation and health" and i decided to do a research about "veterinarians - the health risks and how to prevent them".

what are the health risks as a veterinarian - who works with small animals?

as well as those who work with big animals?

and how to prevent those risks?

if anybody have any useful links, books or magazine, please share me the info, and i'll try to search the information myself.

Thanks a lot!

 

[sumstorm]

Since the requests to do the research part of other's homework for them appear to be increasing, here is my suggestion:

How about YOU describe the research that you have completed and the resources you have already found, and we will add others to the list that you have created by doing your own homework first. That way, it is more of us confirming and supporting the work you are doing rather than doing the initial research step for you?

 

[TheCatzFamily]

i'm not trying to let others do my hw, i just need a head start then i'll continue the research myself. it's really hard to get books on this topic here. anyway, thanks for the suggestion.

 

[bunnity]

I think your best approach is to think about what a vet is involved with and then do a search for those risks. So for example, instead of searching specifically about vets and radiation from doing radiographs, just realize that vets do radiographs and then search for that.

There was a thread on here not too long ago about vet health risks; I forget what it was called but if you do an advanced search and search just pre vet and vet it should come up.

Some ideas to get you started:
radiation
inhaling stray anesthesia
animal bites -> infection, tetanus, etc
zoonotic disease - rabies, parasites, toxoplasmosis, salmonella... just wiki zoonoses and you'll get a lovely list

 

[svendenhowser]

The public health arena in vet is a huge area, this is a speciality in vet med and there should be heaps of information on it if you do a little research. It's very difficult to just jot down the risks and preventative measures on a forum, also it changes nationally, whats important in one country may not even be present in another (e.g. rabies). Does your school have a vet school? Just look for any vet public health textbook in the library to start off?

Maybe take a look at the CDC? http://www.cdc.gov/nczved/

 

[TheCatzFamily]

thanks a lot for your help!!

 

[giles]

dear all,

i'm a medical student in china, though i'm originally from thailand. i've enrolled in this class "occupation and health" and i decided to do a research about "veterinarians - the health risks and how to prevent them".

what are the health risks as a veterinarian - who works with small animals?

as well as those who work with big animals?

and how to prevent those risks?

if anybody have any useful links, books or magazine, please share me the info, and i'll try to search the information myself.

Thanks a lot!

suicide and mental illness
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4310596.stm
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...tress-it-shouldnt-happen-to-a-vet-510076.html
http://www.corralonline.com/articles/article080310152649.htm
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/105081.php
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119388035/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/114080255/abstract
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16751842

 

[aretoo]

More to add:
Kicks (from large animals...lol)
Zoonotic diseases (i.e. rabies, West Nile, giardia, crypto, salmonella, E. coli, etc.)

 

[LeVeterinair]

dear all,

i'm a medical student in china, though i'm originally from thailand. i've enrolled in this class "occupation and health" and i decided to do a research about "veterinarians - the health risks and how to prevent them".

what are the health risks as a veterinarian - who works with small animals?

as well as those who work with big animals?

and how to prevent those risks?

if anybody have any useful links, books or magazine, please share me the info, and i'll try to search the information myself.

Thanks a lot!

Come on guys ! Don't be bad!
There's Health gains in being a vet more than risks...
It's living with animals, living in nature, being far of people (not savage but it enables you to be more patient, to think better, to evaluate others, to understand the life...)
Taking responsability...
Respecting the precious Human life by understanding and feeling animals...
More much other things and good changes that we can't understand, only others around us can feel good difference....🙄