Tropical Diseases Bulletin is the leading bibliographic and abstracts database for research on infectious diseases and public health in developing countries and the tropics. 

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Chronic diseases

– epidemiology of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, mental health, obesity
– prevention and management in low resource settings
– risk factors including effects of diet or lifestyle

Environmental health

– epidemiological studies of environmentally-caused disease in the general population
– health consequences of environmental accidents or natural disasters
– health effects of environmental factors
– studies documenting exposure of the general population

Health services

– health care including costs

– health policy
– health promotion inc mHealth
– health service provision, training and access

Infectious diseases and parasitoses

– viral and prion diseases
– bacterial diseases including mycobacteria
– fungal diseases
– parasitoses including malaria, leishmaniases, schistosomiasis and filariasis

Aspects included are: nosocomial infections, opportunistic infections, food-, water- and vector-borne diseases, zoonoses, emerging infectious diseases, classic tropical diseases, and vaccination programs. 

Patient-related aspects emphasised are: diagnosis, disease course, pathology, pathogenesis, drug and non-drug therapy, epidemiology and disease transmission including transmission by vectors or risk behaviours, prevention programmes & public health campaigns , infection control, immunization, screening, case finding and clinical microbiology.

Nutrition

– feeding programmes
– interaction between nutrition and other diseases
– malnutrition and deficiency diseases

Public and community health

– general demography, rates of birth, death, fertility
– global burden of disease including DALYS
– health of indigenous or marginalised populations
– health of children under 5 years
– health promotion and disease prevention. Risk behaviours
– health systems
– OneHealth

Public health and medical zoology/entomology

– disease vectors in relation to disease transmission
– diseases caused by arthropods, including their bites and stings
– plant and animal toxins
– public health in relation to nuisance pests
– snake bites, including clinical studies and biochemistry of venoms

Occupational health

– accidents and injury rates and reduction
– disease prevention & screening
– health and safety including exposure monitoring
– occupational diseases

Reproductive health

– family planning
– maternal and infant mortality
– maternal and infant health and antenatal care
– sexual health and sexually transmitted infections

Traditional medicine

– indigenous knowledge
– medicinal plants
– traditional health care and health care workers

Travel medicine

– health of travellers
– immunization
– imported infections and illness during travel
– refugee and immigrant health in developed and developing countries
– travel advice & disease prevention in travellers

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