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Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology publish special issue on Global Health Concerns

Leeds, UK, 3 August 2006

An important special issue has just been published in the Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology to mark the centennial year of its publication. The contents of the issue are commissioned reviews on Global Health Concerns. Everyone with an interest in the future health of the human race will find these reviews fascinating, informative and provocative. Many of the leading experts in their field have contributed. 

In this issue is to be found up-to-date discussions of the Millennium Development Goals; chronic non-communicable diseases; the link between illness and poverty, and how health systems can be so detrimental to the poor; the latest estimates of the global burdens of many diseases; and the mixed effects of the ever-spreading ‘epidemiological transition’. 

The candid and often controversial articles on the links between health and tobacco use, globalisation, urbanisation, exploitation, and humanitarian emergencies, on the often depressing histories of tuberculosis and HIV control, and the more encouraging news coming from the polio eradication programmes, will stimulate fruitful debate. Many of the reviews demand an urgent response. As ex-President Jimmy Carter says in the foreword to this collection, the reviews “are a mix of good news and bad, of hope and despair, of light and dark, of warnings and predictions. If they encourage us not only to take stock but also to make changes that have significant impacts on global health, then they will have been well worth the authors’ efforts”. 

To view the table of contents please click here

For further information about Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology, including details of the international editorial board, subscriptions information, and submission instructions, please visit: www.maney.co.uk/journals/atmp