SYSTEMS FOR ANIMAL HEALTH MONITORING IN S WITZERLAND

Due to the changing conditions of animal production in Switzerland the demand for scientificly based animal health information has increased during the last years. It has become a central element in animal heal th policy making. National animal health surveillance systems include methods for data collection, analyses, interpretation and information distribution. The current Swiss surveillance systems are presented. In the future, these systems should be more integrated in order to make better use of the available data. The project ''Systems for the record ing of animal health in Switzerland'' (SysET) is a proposal how a comp rehensive animal data base could be developed.