Tropical medicine

Tropical medicine

Tropical medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with health problems that occur uniquely, are more widespread, or prove more difficult to control in tropical and subtropical regions.

Many infections that are classified as "tropical diseases" used to be endemic in countries located in temperate or even cold areas. That was the case for leprosy, cholera, malaria, polio, measles, hookworm infestations, amoebiasis, among others. The disappearance of those diseases from developed countries was primarily caused by improvements in housing, diet, sanitation, and personal hygiene. Since climate is not the main reason why those infections remain endemic in tropical areas, there is a trend towards renaming this speciality as "Geographic Medicine".

Training

The training in Tropical Medicine is quite different between countries. Most of the Tropical doctors design their own training. The Dutch system is unique in the world. The training consists of two clinical years (O&G, Paediatrics or General Surgery) and a three months course at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam.

Literature

In the course of years, a lot of books are written about the life of tropical doctors. Here is a stubb of a literature list.

*Jonathan Kaplan. "The dressing station, a surgeon's oddysey". Picador, London, 2001.
*Anne Spoerry. "Mama Daktari". The house of books, Vianen, 2000.

ee also

* Travel medicine
* Tropical disease
* Disaster medicine
* Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine
* [http://www.Tropeninstitut.de/ Institute for tropical medicine Dr. Gontard - Germany]
* Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
* Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
* London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
* Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine
* Research Institute for Tropical Medicine - Philippines
* Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
* The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine

External links

Training

* [http://www.jcu.edu.au/school/sphtm/antonbreinl/index.shtml Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine - Australia]
* [http://www.kit.nl Royal Tropical Institute - The Netherlands]
* [http://www.itg.be Institute of Tropical Medicine - Belgium]
* [http://www.tm.mahidol.ac.th Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand]
* [http://sph.tulane.edu Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine]
* [http://apitmid.hawaii.edu/graduate_studies.htm Asia-Pacific Institute of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases]
* [http://www.tropmed.org The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine]

Mission

* [http://www.msf.org Doctors without borders]
*Doctors of the World [http://www.mdm-international.org/ French] / [http://www.mdm-international.org/index.php?id_rubrique=2 English]
* [http://www.medair.org Medair]

Weblogs of Tropical Doctors

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Other

* [http://www.astmh.org The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene]


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