Deforestation in tropical regions causes 15% of global anthropogenic carbon emissions and reduces the mitigation potential of carbon sequestration services. A global market failure occurs as the value of many ecosystem services provided by forests is not recognised by the markets. Identifying the contribution of individual countries to tropical carbon stocks and sequestration might help identif...

Editor—Despite research in tropical medicine being undertaken in countries from low human development index, authorship and editorial opinion remain with countries from higher development index. This unfair trend observed by Keiser et al demands to be addressed and overturned. This observed bias may arise because countries of high human development index fund the bulk of research in tropical me...

OBJECTIVE To assess the current international representation of members of editorial and advisory boards and authors in the leading peer reviewed literature on tropical medicine. DESIGN Systematic review. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Country affiliations, as classified by the human development index, of editorial and advisory board members of all tropical medicine journals referenced by the Instit...

vascular diseases of the brain are the second reason of the death and the first cause of morbidity and disability worldwide. in tropical areas stroke has some particular features related to the nature of torrid zones. there are some special causes of the stroke, mainly infectious, although some of them are non-infectious. the most important etiologies are malaria, tuberculosis, cysticercosis, s...

This paper uses a framework developed for gender and tropical diseases for the analysis of non-communicable diseases and conditions in developing and industrialized countries. The framework illustrates that gender interacts with the social, economic and biological determinants and consequences of tropical diseases to create different health outcomes for males and females. Whereas the framework ...

Perspectives Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa – the countries known as BRICS – are transitioning from emerging economies to leaders in geopolitical affairs. While BRICS face increasing prevalence of noncom-municable disease and injury, they also continue to be burdened by many infectious diseases, including neglected tropical diseases. Neglected tropical diseases ar...

The diseases that occur solely or principally, in the tropical and subtropical regions are called as Tropical diseases. These diseases are less or not prevalent in temperate climates because of the occurrence of a cold season that controls the insect population by forcing hibernation. Public health is the art and science of preventing disease, promoting health and prolonging life through organi...

Dung beetle communities have been compared across north temperate latitudes. Tropical dung beetle communities appear to be more diverse based on studies using different methodologies. Here, we present results from a standardized sampling protocol used to compare dung beetle communities across five neotropical forests in Brazil and Ecuador and two warm, north temperate forests in Mississippi and...