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Child Mortality and the Fertility Transition: Aggregated and Multilevel Evidence from Costa Rica
(1998)
The author explores whether reduced child mortality is needed in order to realize fertility transition by examining empirical evidence from Costa Rica, a developing country which decreased both child mortality and birth ...
Efectos locales en el envenenamiento ofídico en América Latina
(2003)
Los envenenamientos por mordedura de serpiente constituyen un importante problema de salud pública en América Latina. La gran mayoría de estos envenenamientos son causados por mordeduras de serpientes de la familia Viperidae, ...
Cryptosporidium diarrhea in costarican children
(1986)
Coccidian parasites of the genus Cryptosporidium cause acute diarrhea in many vertebrates, including man. Recent reviews on the subject [1-5] were stimulated by demonstration of a chronic, debilitating and generally fatal ...
Aging and Mental Health in a Longitudinal Study of Elderly Costa Ricans
(2015-04)
Geriatric depression and cognition impairment, including memory loss, are common neuropsychiatric
disorders at old age. Diagnosing these conditions in the context of a general population-based survey
conducted by nonmental ...
Promotion of breast-feeding, health, and growth among hospital-born neonates, and among infants of a rural area of Costa Rica
(Diarrhea and Malnutrition. Interactions, Mechanisms, and Interventions.Editors: Lincoln C. Chen, Nevin S. Scrimshaw, 1983,177-202, 1983)
decline in the incidence of breast-feeding in many developing nations
\--as been recorded in recent years, often in conjunction with (a) rapid
changes in way of life, (b) migration from rural to urban,- centers, ...
Spatial dimensions of family planning in Costa Rica: the value of geocoding demographic surveys
(1997)
The article illustrates the value of geocoding demographic surveys and conducting spatial analyses to understand the service supply environment and contraceptive behavior. Three Costa Rican data sets are geocoded and pooled ...
Influence on the growth parameters of children
(Raven Press p 85-94, 1983)
The close interactions between toxin-producing bacterial agents and the host in cases of diarrhea are reflected in several significant physiologic and nutritional alterations. The negative nutritional effects of diarrhea ...
Mortalidad por infección respiratoria aguda en Costa Rica
(1985)
La infección respiratoria es de importancia mundial por la alta morbilidad y mortalidad que causa. Se ha estimado que anualmente mueren 2,2 millones par infección respiratoria aguda. Este problema, importante en los países ...
Environmental factors affecting nutrition and growth
(1985)
Epidemiologic studies in tropical and subtropical regions highlighted the interaction between malnutrition and infectious disease and its contribution to determining morbidity and mortality in developing countries. There ...
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 ...