Epidemiology and Public Health

Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Almost every health issues are specific to certain parts of the world based on geography, socioeconomic and other factors.  A branch of international medicine which is tropical medicine is involved in knowing the issues related to health which mainly includes communicable diseases which are common in the tropical and subtropical regions.

In the last few decades there has been increase in the awareness about various tropical diseases and several initiatives have been taken by various national and international agencies to fight against the diseases that come under the subject of tropical medicine.

The importance of tropical medicine is to fully understand the biology of the disease-causing agents like bacteria and viruses discover the treatments to control the disease, setup proper guidelines for prevention and reduce the number of disease cases globally.