Dog Health Programs in Indigenous Communities - an EHP Guide
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Dog Health Programs in Indigenous Communities - an Environmental Health Practitioners Guide
by Dr Samantha Phelan.
This comprehensive guide (339 pages) has been written as a reference for people wanting to make dogs healthier in their own communities or in communities they work in. There are many people who take part in Environmental Health Programs in communities, Indigenous Environmental Health Workers, Environmental Health Officers , Area Health Services and Health Boards, Departments of Local Government, State Government Environmental Health Units and Indigenous Land Councils, schools, community groups to name a few. It has been written to help each of those people to do a better job. The guide was written following focus group meetings with experienced Indigenous Environmental Health Practitioners working in the field in Queensland and the Northern Territory, as well as Environmental Health Worker students from Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education in the NT. The Guide is highly visual, colourful and contains drawn summaries of text information as well as photos of relevant diseases and signs of disease. It can be used for information and pictures for community or school education. (See the poster NT Central Region's Regional and Remote Aboriginal Children and Services Supoprt Unit created from manual inspiration here). See Chapter summaries at Left → All this for only $120.00 plus $10.00 postage and handling per copy!
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- Dogs, the Environmental Health Practitioner and dog programs o Why people have dogs o The role of the Environmental Health Practitioner in dog programs - Planning Your Program o Using this book to plan your dog program o Things to look at while planning o What medicines the EHP can give o Licences for giving medicines - Dogs, germs and immune systems o What are germs? o Where do the germs come from? o How germs get inside people and animals o Strong and weak immune systems o Zoonoses – germs that can move from dogs to people - Germs that cause diarrhoea o Germs that cause diarrhoea o Germs that dogs and people can share - Worms in dogs that can get into people o incl. Dog roundworm, hookworm, Flea tapeworm, Hydatid tapeworm, Dog heartworm, Strongyloides stercoralis - Common skin problems in dogs o incl. Mange: scabies and demodex mites, Ticks, Lice, Fleas, Ringworm - Other common dog sickness o incl. Transmissible Venereal Tumour, Parvovirus, Wounds, Leptospirosis - Top Watch programs and exotic diseases (incl. Rabies, Screw worm fly, Surra) - What we use to kill parasites – treating mange and worms o Incl. what to give, how much to give, and how to give it. o Ivermectin, Doramectin and Moxidectin - Dogs are not dingoes o Differences between feral dogs and dingoes, threats to dingoes from dogs, o How can communities help save dingoes? - Dog breeding o incl. the female dog breeding cycle, pregnancy and labour, and looking after pups - Stopping dogs breeding o Ways to stop animals breeding and Planning a desexing program o Reasons to stop female and male dogs breeding o Desexing operations, Covinan™, Suprelorin™ - Putting animals down (‘finish’): euthanasia o Reasons for putting dogs down o Giving the ‘green dream’ needle o Shooting animals - Dog by-laws - Dog bites, the law and the EHP o Reasons dogs bite o The law, and stopping dogs that bite (incl. education) o Choosing the right dogs for your community o Sedation for cheeky dogs - Animal Welfare o incl. issues, laws, and promoting animal welfare - Running a pound o Keeping a dog pound o What to think about before the community gets a pound - Record keeping and program evaluation o Keeping good records o Why do we keep records? o Types of records o Program evaluation - What the shop can stock o Animal health and pet care products the shop and EHP can stock (incl. examples and contacts) - Bibliography |
