Nordic dairy farmers' threshold for contacting a veterinarian and consequences for disease recording: Mild clinical mastitis as an example

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 108, Issue 2-3, 2013, Pages 114-124

  Espetvedt, Mari ^a   Lind, Ann Kristina ^b   Wolff, Cecilia ^c   Rintakoski, Simo ^d   Virtala, Anna Maija ^d   Lindberg, Ann ^e  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Dairy farming; Disease recording; Mastitis; Theory of Planned Behaviour

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BOVINE MASTITIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRYING; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; FINLAND; INFORMATION PROCESSING; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCANDINAVIA; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FINLAND; MASTITIS, BOVINE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCANDINAVIA; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

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EID: 84871774310     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.07.014     Document Type: Article

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