Category Archives: Human Health

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 support. Whether it’s friends, family, community spaces, or therapy, building a support system can help. Set boundaries. Create a healthier relationship with technology by limiting your screen time. Develop skills. Invest some time figuring out the best coping skills to help you healthily manage your feeling.

Take a deep breath – establishing respiratory protection policies and performing fit testing is easier than it seems.

#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 providing effective feedback.

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 well as resources and information specific to the profession. During the six-week program, support groups of eight people meet online each week.

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 avian influenza in dairy cows in the U.S., the risk to people, a timeline of documented mammalian infections in the U.S. and globally, and a list of related links.

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 stakeholders who are preparing for, participating in, and recovering from animal depopulation. It is available in French, Spanish, and English.

#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 and worthy of evaluation?

#Wellness Wednesday – Financial Wellbeing Tip: Provide support for establishing and navigating retirement plans for your employees.

#WellnessWednesday – Emotional Wellbeing Tip: Provide positive reinforcement and encouragement when a team member prioritizes healthy boundary setting between home and work.

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 discuss. How about something from the latest issue of the Journal of Swine Health and Production, or a paper presented at the AASV Annual Meeting?