Senthilkumar, vTANUVAS2020-10-012020-10-012020-02https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810152208TNV_TM_17-26-Feb-2020_69-74Animal health economics is a discipline that aims to provide a framework of concepts, procedures and data to support the decision making process in optimizing animal health management. Improving animal health can play a major role in achieving efficient and economically rewarding production. Controlling the cost of production is becoming critically important in modern livestock farming. Current veterinary services are evolving to meet the need for service targeted tightly to the needs of farmers through planned disease prevention and control programmes and management for optimum health. Usually several programmes or measures are available, each of them offering a different degree of protection and requiring a different level of investment. Determining the optimum input level, therefore, is to a large extent a matter of economic decision making. The economic principles can be gainfully applied to guide resource allocation in the field of animal health management.EnglishVeterinary ScienceAnimal Husbandry EconomicsArticle