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Interactions of malnutrition and infection
(Arab World Printing House. In: Practical approaches to combat malnutrition with special reference to mothers and children. Cairo, Egypt. May 25-29, 1977. N.S. Scrimshaw y M. Gabr (editors). Ministry of Health, Cairo, Egypt, Arab World Printing House, Egypt, p.134-144, 1979., 1979-05)
It is impossible and impracticable to separate health problems from their environmental causes. Thus, a quick glance at the present world distribution of famine and of severe and chronic malnutrition reveals a concentration ...
The nature of the nutrition problem
(1978)
This paper attempts to conceptualize malnutrition
from an ecological point of view. One definition of
malnutrition, a term that in Spanish can be rendered
by either 'desnutricion' or 'malnutricion', is:
a pathologic ...
Criterios para evaluar el estado nutricional del niño
(Revista de la Sociedad Venezolana de Gastroenterología 37(1y2):107-123, 1983)
El establecer criterios para evaluar el estado nutricional de una población general se ha tornado muy importante dada que la desnutrición energético-proteínica (DEP) constituye un grave problema de salud en países en vía ...
Breast-feeding, infections and infant outcomes: an international perspective
(1990)
Most rural mothers from Puriscal, a typical transitional population in Costa Rica, breastfeed their infants; more than one half breast-feed beyond 6 months. This situation was brought about by commencement of rooming-in ...
Diarrhea and Malnutrition: Breastfeeding Intervention in a Transitional Population
(Holme, T., Marcus Wallenberg Foundation for International Cooperation in Science., & World Health Organization. (1981). Acute enteric infections in children: New prospects for treatment and prevention : proceedings of the third Nobel conference. Amsterdam: Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press., 1981)
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 ...
Mucosal infection and malnutrition
(Neonatal infection. Grune y Stratton p. 299- 213, 1984)
The mucosal infections that result in acute diarrheal diseases (ADD) and
acute respiratory infections (ARI) account for more than one half of all
the morbidity of infants and young children throughout the less ...
Oral rehydration of neonates with dehydrating diarrhoeas
(The Lancet Vol 314(8154): 1209-1210. Dec 08, 1979., 1979-12-08)
Thirty-nine of forty neonates with mean
dehydration equivalent to 6.7% of bodyweight
were orally rehydrated with a glucose/electrolyte
solution. Only one patient required any intravenous
fluids for rehydration. ...
Program development for interventions in the nutrition-infection complex
Food and Nutrition Board National Research Council
(National Academy of Sciences, noviembre 1978, 1978)
The magnitude of malnutrition in the world is staggering. In addition to its major causative factors, which relate specifically to food availability at the household level, infectious diseases are an omnipresent and important ...
El ambiente biológico y el estado nutricional
El ambiente biológico y el estado nutricional
(Análisis de la situación alimentania-nutricional en Costa Rica. Secretaría de la Política Nacional de Alimentación y Nutrición. L. Sánz, editor. p.113-129, 1981., 1981)
Los estados de buena o mala nutrición -y sus grados intermedios- son el resultado de la interacción del huésped (el hombre) con su ambiente. Se entiende por ambiente todo aquello que rodea al ser humano y que es capaz de ...
Child feedings in less developed countries: induced breast feeding in a transitional society
(Pediatric Nutrition. Infant Feeding- Deficiencies - Diseases. F. Lifshitz, ed., Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York (1982) p. 35-53, 1982)
Breast feeding is the best promoter of growth and health of infants in traditional
and transitional societies. Supplementation with semisolid and solid foods is
generally required after 3-6 months in most developing ...