• Estudio de Puriscal IX. Estado nutricional y supervivencia del niño lactante 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo; Castro, Bernardo; Vives Blanco, Marcela; García, María Eugenia; Jiménez, Patricia; Jiménez, Sandra; Sánchez, Francisco (Revista Médica del Hospital Nacional de Niños, 17(1 y 2): 117-139, 1982)
      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. ...
    • Promotion of breast-feeding, health, and growth among hospital-born neonates, and among infants of a rural area of Costa Rica 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo; Allen, María de los Ángeles; Jiménez, Patricia; García, María Eugenia; Vargas, William; Rodríguez, María E.; Valerín, Carlos (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, ...