Diarrheal disease is a main cause of weight loss and growth faltering and stunting in rural children living under low socioeconomic conditions, and diarrhea is one of the most important events precipitating severe ...

A prospective study on growth and development of children is underway since 1979 in Puriscal, a rural region in the mountainous South of Costa Rica. Beginning with gestation and following through infancy and preschool age, ...

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, ...

There is no evidence of malnutrition in the Canton of Puriscal as revealed by careful prospective study of all children born from September 19 of 1979 onwards. Several factors may account for this remarkable situation. ...

Most authorities agree that the decline in the rate and duration of breast feeding in urban areas in many developing countries has been the result of urbanization and influences of Western culture. Two sequalae have been ...

This paper presents the findings of a prospective study of the infectious morbidity of a cohort of 114 rural infants throughout their first year of life. Results indicate that upper respiratory infections were the most ...

Between September 1979 and September 1981 a field study was conducted on the etiology of diarrhea' disease in the area of Puriscal, Costa Rica. The presence of enteric pathogens was investigated in the stools of 267 ...

La presente investigación tuvo por objeto desarrollar una metodología que permitiese adaptar el método de rehidratación oral a las condiciones del hogar, ya que la diarrea deshidratante en lugares alejados de los recursos ...

El Estudio de Puriscal gira alrededor del estudio longitudinal del crecimiento y desarrollo del niño desde su vida intrauterino. Para tal propósito es preciso establecer un contacto periódico con las familiares de los ...