• Child malnutrition and deprivation - observations in Guatemala and Costa Rica 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo (Food and Nutrition, 6(2), 7-14, 1980)
      Traditional populations consisting of small tribal groups living in close contact with nature may be virtually free from endemic malnutrition owing to the relative absence of infectious diseases. Transition toward ...
    • Consumo de leche por lactantes del área rural de Puriscal, Costa Rica, 1978 

      Novotny, Rachel; Mata Jiménez, Leonardo; Brenes, Haydée (Revista Médica del Hospital Nacional de Niños Dr. Carlos Sáenz Herrera, Costa Rica 15(1): 45-58, 1980)
      Se determinó el volumen (peso) de leche humana consumida por niños lactantes, mediante la pesada del niño antes y después de cada mamada. Los niños residían en 7 localidades de tipo rural disperso del Cantón de Puriscal. ...
    • Program development for interventions in the nutrition-infection complex 

      Keusch, Gerald T.; Katz, Michael; Koster, Frederick T.; Mata Jiménez, Leonardo; Rosenberg, Irwin H.; Solomons, Noel W. (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 ...