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Epidemiology of acute diarrhea in Childhood: an overview
(Raven Press p 3-22, 1983)
Much has been learned about the epidemiology of acute diarrheal disease since the folk conceptualization of a syndrome caused by "food indigestion." Despite early recognition of shigellosis, salmonellosis, giardiasis, and ...
The fight against diarrhoeal diseases: The case of Costa Rica
(1985)
Like most developing nations, Costa Rica exhibited a very high morbidity and mortality attributable to diarrhoeal diseases during the first half of this century. Relatively good data on total population and on diarrhoea ...
Nutritional status of the elderly in Palmares, Costa Rica
(Arch Latinoam nutr 33 (2) 409-422, 1983-04-01)
The nutritional status of aged persons living in a small Costa Rican community was evaluated using anthropometric measurements, clinical findings and dietary surveys. Eighteen per cent of the aged were overweight, a condition ...
How harmful is diarrhoea?
(1986-04)
Apart from the physical suffering and deaths that they
cause at the individual and family level, diarrhoeal diseases
also play a negative role in national development
Public health implications of low birth weight
(1977)
The present paper interpets the significance of anthropometric data of newborns
from a typical Indian village of Guatemala and from the general population of Costa
Rica. A good correlation exists between a deficient fetal ...
Estudio de Puriscal VI: Transferencia de la tecnología de rehidratación oral del hospital al hogar rural
(Revista del Hospital Nacional de Niños 17(1y2) 71-86 p, 1982)
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 ...
Mezclas vegetales nutritivas y simples para el niño costarricense
(Revista Medica Hospital Nacional de Niños Dr. Carlos Sáenz Herrera, Costa Rica 15(1): 71-90, 1980)
Con el fin de contribuir a mejorar la alimentación del niño costarricense, se
elaboraron mezclas vegetales teóricas de alto valor nutritivo. Esas mezclas consisten
en la combinación de una leguminosa con un cereal o ...
HIV/AIDS in Costa Rica: epidemiological and sociological features,1993
(1995)
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was first detected in Costa Rica in 1983. For four years most known cases were in hemophiliac men. Thereafter, AIDS in homosexual and bisexual men predominated. By December 31 of ...
Bioética en la experimentación en seres humanos en Costa Rica
(2000)
Uno de los mayores avances de la civilización ha sido la discusión filosófica sobre las intervenciones que el Homo sapiens ha hecho en su propia especie, ya motivado por el afán de mejorarla, ya estimulado por el poder, ...
Relación del bajo peso al nacer con el desarrollo psicomotor del niño de Puriscal
(1985)
This is a study of psycho-motor development of 84 eighteen months old
children, living in the districts of Barbacoas, Grifo Alto and Candelarita in the
canton of Puriscal. Gesell and Casati-Lezine tests were employed to ...