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La Salud en Costa Rica en 1978: Ciencia y Tecnología en un Marco de Prioridades
(Acta Médica Costarricense 22(2): 209-215, 1979)
A principios de 1978, el Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICIT) nombró una Comisión para re-dactar un documento sobre ciencia y tecno-logía en el Sector Salud de Costa Rica. Dicho documento ...
Breast-feeding, weaning and the diarrhoeal syndrome in a Guatemalan Indian village
(Ciba Foundation Symposium 42 (new series) published July 1976 by Elsevier/Excerpta Medica/North-Holland. pp.311-338., 1976)
Prospective studies in Mayan Indian children living in their natural setting were carried out from 1964 through 1974; observations began at birth and extended at least throughout the first three years of life. Adequate ...
Facind AIDS in Costa Rica
(1988-03)
The 1st AIDS case was diagnosed in Costa Rica in 1985. By January 1988, 47 cases were recorded. Most cases are in hemophiliacs and homosexuals; one is in the heterosexual partner of a hemophiliac. 55% of hemophiliacs in ...
Systems Analysis in Nutrition and Health Planning: Approximate Model Relating Birth Weight and Age to Risk of Deficient Growth
Análisis de sistemas en la planificación de salud y nutrición: un modelo aproximado que relaciona peso al nacer y edad, con riesgo de crecimiento deficiente
(1976)
This paper summarizes the initial phase of an effort to develop semiquantitative methods for nutrition and health planning. The general approach is to utilize the methods of systems analysis and operations research where ...
Criptosporidiosis en niños de Costa Rica: estudio transveral y longitudinal
(Revista de Biología Tropical 32(1) p.129-135, 1984-01-04)
Se estudió una población de niños lactantes y preescolares, con y sin diarrea, de las áreas urbano y rural de los altiplanos de Costa Rica, observados respectivamente en un servicio de emergencia de un hospital metropolitano ...
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 ...
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 ...
Conocimientos sobre el SIDA en un tugurio y un campamento de refugiados de Costa Rica
(1988)
Se realizó una encuesta a mediados de 1988 en
dos localidades con población marginada: un
campamento de refugiados nicaragüenses y un
tugurio periurbano. En ambas localidades se
seleccionó una muestra representativa ...
Tratamientos bactericidas poscosecha contra Vibrio cholerae en lechuga (Lactuca sativa)
(1994)
Se evaluó el efecto de diferentes dosis y
tiempos de inmersión de soluciones de cloro y de
Kilol sobre la calidad poscosecha de lechuga americana,
y ademáis, la acci6n bactericida de estas soluciones
sobre el Vibrio ...
Hair zinc levels in rural Costa Rican infants and preschool children
(The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: 33; p. 2194-2197, 1980-10)
Correlations between hair zinc and age, sex, weight, and length were determined on 138 boys and girls aged 6 months to 4 years from a low socioeconomic region of rural Costa Rica. Zinc deficiency, as assessed by hair zinc ...