Some factors impeding public health progress in tropical countries.

Abstract

THE decrease in mortality and morbidity which have resulted from the use of modern i public health techniques in the tropics have been surprising in their speed and degree. In many places malaria is being eradicated or controlled, trypanosomiasis no longer ravages the populations of Africa, and the chronic ill-health and disability associated with yaws and syphilis are being eliminated. Turning from the endemic to the