Table of Contents

Preface — Editors’ Notes — Introduction — The Physical and Socioeconomic Environment, the Population, Nutrition, and Disasters — Movement Toward Modernization: A Century of Progress — The Physical and Biotic Environment — Population — The Economy, with Particular Reference to the Agricultural Sector — Food, Diet, and Nutrition — Famine and Malnutrition — Health Impacts of War — Health Services and Sexually Transmitted and Other Nonvectored Diseases — Modern Health Services — Traditional Medicine — Water Supply and Sanitation — Childhood Diseases and Immunization — Acute Childhood Diarrhea — Viral Hepatitis — Intestinal Parasitism — Eye Diseases and Blindness — Leprosy — Tuberculosis — Meningococcal Meningitis — Sexually Transmitted Diseases — Social Aspects of Obstetrics and Gynecology — AIDS — Vector-Borne Diseases — Malaria — Trypanosomiasis — Onchocerciasis — Leishmaniasis — Yellow Fever and Other Arboviral Diseases — Relapsing Fever — Typhus and Other Rickettsial Diseases — Schistosomiasis — Chronic Noninfectious Diseases, Injuries, Mental Health, and Other Health Problems — Chronic Noninfectious Diseases of Adults — Diabetes Mellitus — Podoconiosis (Nonfilarial Elephantiasis) — Fluorosis — Dental Health — Unintentional and Intentional Injuries — Neurological Disorders — Mental Illness — Other Diseases — Conclusion: Prospects of the Future