[Tropical medicine and international health: MTSI clarifies its editorial line].

Abstract

Tropical medicine, initially associated with colonial medicine and exotic pathology, focused on infectious diseases of warm regions and on environmental and socioeconomic imbalances. Global upheavals such as globalization, urbanization and climate change have broadened the scope of diseases, with the emergence of tropical pathologies in temperate regions and an increase in non-communicable diseases (traumatic, metabolic, psychiatric, etc.) in southern countries.Médecine Tropicale et Santé Internationale (MTSI) accompanies this paradigm shift by integrating noncommunicable diseases and contextualizing the local conditions in which pathologies occur, are diagnosed and treated. It favors analyses based on local specificities, including cultural, socioeconomic and environmental aspects, as well as health system constraints.MTSI therefore insists on contextualization in submitted articles, especially for original studies and clinical cases, emphasizing the impact of local conditions, diagnostic and therapeutic barriers, and the consideration of traditional medicines. It invites authors to demonstrate the relevance and novelty of their observations, while respecting the formal recommendations for publication.