A New Short Textbook of Preventive Medicine for the Tropics

This concise and practical book deals with the basic principles of the prevention and control of disease in the tropics. It emphasizes individual and community strategies for control, and covers all the important communicable and parasitic diseases. For this third edition, the text has been thoroughly updated and more diagrams have been incorporated. The chapter on nutrition has been rewritten with an emphasis on community nutrition. Because of the increasing tendency towards urbanization and industrialization in developing countries, a chapter has been included on the diseases of occupation and their prevention. There is also a new section of HIV infection. The new edition remains an invaluable textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate medical students, and a useful source of reference for practising members of the health professions.