PROHEALTH Objectives
- Identify the risk factors for production diseases and establish associations between disease
- Explore the role of genetic and environmental factors on neonatal survival and in exerting longer-term developmental influences on health
- Evaluate the effects of genetic selection for productive traits on susceptibility and identify strategies to prevent these
- Determine the role of farm environment variation on the expression of production diseases over time
- Characterize microbiological and immunological changes and identify pathological changes at the molecular level which take place during production diseases in order to develop diagnostic tools
- Implement reduction strategies for production diseases on a farm and assess the efficacy reducing disease prevalence or severity
- Identify economically viable and socially acceptable control strategies ways to control pathologies, with emphasis on animal welfare implications
Key Facts
| Acronym | PROHEALTH |
| Title | Sustainable pig and poultry production: an integrated and multi-factorial approach |
| Start Date | 01 December 2013 |
| End Date | 30 November 2018 |
| Duration | 60 months |
| Budget | € 11.9 million |
| Funding | FP7-KBBE |