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Showing only stories from the Hum.H. category: Human health -- show all categories
July 3, 2024 —
Burnout is a significant issue in veterinary medicine, affecting both veterinarians and veterinary technicians. The following tips to help reduce burnout come from MentorVet. Seek Professional Help:...
June 19, 2024 —
The Senate unanimously approved U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) and Michael Bennet's (D-Colo.), bipartisan resolution designating May 29 as "Mental Health Awareness in Agriculture Day."...
May 23, 2024 —
With a mission of supporting mental health, the Veterinary Hope Foundation offers small group sessions for veterinary professionals. These groups provide a community to share common experiences as...
May 22, 2024 —
Wellness Wednesday - Mental Health Month: Four Ways to Improve your Mental Health: Take action. Try advocating for causes that are important to you - this can be therapeutic in its own way! Find...
May 14, 2024 —
Take a deep breath - establishing respiratory protection policies and performing fit testing is easier than it seems. Some parts of normal agricultural work can create respiratory health risks to...
April 17, 2024 —
#WellnessWednesday - Occupational Wellbeing Tip: Give team members the opportunity to provide feedback of their own in a respectful, perhaps anonymous, way. Train team members on the basics of...
April 16, 2024 —
With a mission of supporting mental health, the Veterinary Hope Foundation offers small group sessions for veterinary professionals. These groups provide a community to share common experiences as...
April 16, 2024 —
The CDC website now features a new page dedicated to the current situation on highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) virus in mammals. The page includes information on the outbreak of H5N1...
April 11, 2024 —
A short video describing how to use the the Animal Depopulation Resiliency Check-in Tool (ADRCT) is now available in English and Spanish. The ADRCT is a 5-question public health protocol for...
April 10, 2024 —
#WellnessWednesday - Intellectual Wellbeing Tip: Increase your self-awareness and intention around the opinions you hold. Do you have all the facts? Are you ignoring information or data that is valid...
April 3, 2024 —
#Wellness Wednesday - Financial Wellbeing Tip: Provide support for establishing and navigating retirement plans for your employees....
March 27, 2024 —
#WellnessWednesday - Emotional Wellbeing Tip: Provide positive reinforcement and encouragement when a team member prioritizes healthy boundary setting between home and work....
February 28, 2024 —
Wellness Wednesday - Intellectual Wellbeing Tip: Institute a weekly journal club with your colleagues, where you rotate choosing a recent scientific article for everyone to read and come together to...
February 21, 2024 —
Wellness Wednesday - Physical Wellbeing Tip: Get your hearing tested for FREE at the AASV Annual Meeting! Thanks to efforts by the AASV Human Health, Safety, and Well-being Committee, basic hearing...
February 7, 2024 —
Wellness Wednesday - Emotional Wellbeing Tip: Allow for time off to see mental health professionals and make medical appointments....
January 31, 2024 —
Wellness Wednesday - Environmental Wellbeing Tip: Incorporate live plants into the workplace - being cognizant of toxicities if animals are around....
January 24, 2024 —
Wellness Wednesday - Occupational Wellbeing Tip: Include allocations for continuing education for all the members of your practice in your organization's budget, and be supportive when time-off is...
January 10, 2024 —
Wellness Wednesday - Creative Wellbeing Tip: Put a keyboard or guitar in the break room....
January 3, 2024 —
Wellness Wednesday: Financial Wellbeing Tip - To the extent that you are able, put some money away in a savings and/or retirement account....
December 27, 2023 —
Wellness Wednesday: Environmental Wellbeing Tip - Use environmentally responsible practices in the workplace and at home, like limiting paper use, recycling, and composting....
December 20, 2023 —
Wellness Wednesday: Emotional Wellbeing Tip - Actively seek out laughter. Surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Try not to take yourself too seriously. Allow yourself to play. Read the...
December 13, 2023 — AASV Staff
Wellness Wednesday - Creative Wellbeing Tip: Change mediums: if you typically paint, try poetry. If you like crossword puzzles, try Sudoku. If you typically color with pencils, try markers or...
December 6, 2023 —
Wellness Wednesday - Physical Wellbeing Tip: Get your influenza vaccine this week during National Influenza Vaccination Week (NIVW), December 4-8, 2023. NIVW is an annual observance in December to...
December 5, 2023 —
The Animal Depopulation Resiliency Check-in Tool, a 5-question public health protocol for stakeholders who are preparing for, participating in, and recovering from animal-depopulation, created by...
November 29, 2023 —
Flu viruses can spread from pigs to people and from people to pigs - how do you prevent the spread on your farm? Work with your veterinarian to develop a herd management and vaccination strategy to...
November 22, 2023 — AASV Staff
Wellness Wednesday - Spiritual Wellbeing Tip: Hold ethics discussions that give people the opportunity to talk about difficult scenarios they've encountered and how they chose to deal with them....
November 15, 2023 —
Wellness Wednesday - Social Wellbeing Tip: When eating lunch with members of the team, refrain from talking "shop" and instead encourage everyone to share fun facts about themselves....
November 8, 2023 —
Wellness Wednesday - Physical Wellbeing Tip: Drink AT LEAST half your bodyweight in ounces of water every day (cups of coffee do not count towards this total). The goal is to urinate often and clear....
November 1, 2023 —
Wellness Wednesday - Occupational Wellbeing Tip: Determine the Myers-Briggs, DiSC, or Insights classifications or Strengths Profiles for everyone on your team. This will create a better understanding...
October 25, 2023 —
Wellness Wednesday - Intellectual Wellbeing Tip: Foster a communal growth mindset in your workplace. This will include grace for learning and making mistakes, and modeling vulnerability in...
The complete archive, including older stories, is here
Category abbreviations: AASV=Membership information, announcements, and other information from the American Association of Swine Veterinarians; Abs.=Abstracts from journal articles of general interest to swine veterinarians.; ALERT=Used to create email alerts; An.H.=Animal Health; Conf.=Conference announcements and other continuing education opportunities; FAD="Foreign" Animal Disease and other news most significant to regions outside of North America.; Food=Food Safety; Gov.=Information about legislation, regulations, and rulemaking that may affect the swine industry or swine veterinarians.; Hum.H.=Human health; Ind.=News from the pork industry, including NPPC and Pork Board activities.; International=Information regarding swine health and production internationally.; Jobs=Position announcements, primarily seeking swine veterinarians.; Meet=Provides a short synopsis of meetings of importance to swine veterinarians.; News=Agriculture related news events.; Nutr.=Swine nutrition; OP-ED=Opinion or editorial articles expressing the thoughts of individual Association members.; Pharm.=Pharmaceuticals and biologicals; PRRS=Articles from the AASV PRRS Task Force; Practice=Information associated with practice management or development.; Research=Research topics of interest to swine veterinarians.; Students=Information of interest to AASV student members.; USDA=US Dept. of Agriculture activities of interest to swine veterinarians.; Welfare=Animal welfare issues