ABSTRACT
When this textbook was first published in 1973, it was designed to fill a gap in the medical literature. It directed attention to the special problems of disease prevention in the tropics and it emphasized major health problems peculiar to the tropics with particular reference to parasitic infections and other communicable diseases that are prevalent in warm climates. However, it was not a textbook of parasitology or microbiology in that it provided epidemiological approaches to disease control. In effect it approached public health from the viewpoint of tropical countries.
