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Infectious diseases in a Nicaraguan refugee camp in Costa Rica
(1989-01)
Some Nicaraguans living in Costa Rica are in refugee camps. The types and rates of infectious diseases in the Pueblo Nuevo refugee camp were measured by examining medical records for 1985 and performing stool and blood ...
Breast Cancer: A Public Health Issue that is also Subject of Social Construction
(2020)
Breast cancer claims thousands of lives all over the world every year. A historical perspective on the social construction of breast cancer policy is presented. This mini review examines breast cancer through a historical ...
Cryptosporidium and other protozoa in diarrheal disease in less developed countries
(1986)
At least 18 species of intestinal protozoa in 14 different genera have been identified in the feces or intestinal juices of man (Table 1). Of these ten species are regarded as potential pathogens and can induce diarrheal ...
Seroepidemiology of Chlamydia in Costa Rica
(1990)
A population-based study of the sero-epidemiology of chlamydia was performed among a nationally representative sample of 760 Costa Rican women aged 25 to 59 years. Interviews and sera collection were completed between ...
Giardiasis: Impact on child growth
(1986)
Chronic disorders of the gastrointestinal tract may impair physical growth during infancy and childhood. Growth retardation has been particularly well documented in children with Crohn's disease and coeliac disease in which ...
Diarrhea and its effect on growth
(1986-12)
The predominant etiology of diarrhea in the general population of underdeveloped countries is infection by viruses and bacteria. Studies in rural areas clearly suggest an infectious cause. For example, diarrhea initially ...
Reproductive history and breast cancer in a population of high fertility, Costa Rica, 1984-85
(1987)
The relationship between breast cancer and women's reproductive history in Costa Rica was analyzed using logistic regression methods on data from 171 breast cancer cases and 826 population-based controls aged 25–58 years. ...
Problems in implementing newborn screening in Costa Rica
(1987)
In Costa Rica, concern for public education early in this century, together with specific public health actions in the early 1970's, have resulted in fairly good control of infectious and nutritional diseases. As a ...
Acute diarrhoea with Cryptosporidium sp. in Belém, Brazil (preliminary report)
(1986-03)
Cryptosporidium sp was detected in faeces from three children suffering from acute diarrhoea. In two cases no other concomitant agents were detected and in a 3rd. this agent was associated with Entamoeba histolytic, Entamoeba ...
Disentangling the respective roles of the early environment and parental BMI on BMI change across childhood: A counterfactual analysis using the Millennium Cohort Study
(2016)
This study has two objectives. First, to analyse the respective roles of parental BMI and the wider environment on children's BMI across childhood, using a counterfactual analysis. Second, to determine if the correlations ...