TM 5501:03 Final: Tropical Medicine Final Exam Study Guide Notes
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Section a: introduction: introduction to tropical medicine. Deals mainly with populations in transition the medicine of developing countries. Appreciate that there are classification systems for infectious and parasitic diseases and understand the main categories. Icd-10: international statistical classification of diseases and related health. Problems (icd), a medical classification list by the who. It codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. Have knowledge of the relative importance of various diseases in relation to the. Global burden of diseases traditionally the major burden of ill health in tropical countries has been due to communicable diseases, but this has been changing. Greater disease burden in low income countries with non- communicable diseases compromising a number of categories in the top 25 causes of dalys. Understand some of the mechanisms that the global community has in place to address these concerns, especially through the millennium development goals.
