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    • Anemia hipocrómica en niños preescolares de una comunidad urbano marginal, San José, Costa Rica 

      Quintana Guzmán, Eugenia María; Achí Araya, María Rosario (Bol Med Hosp Infant Mex 59 (1) 85-88, 2002-01)
      La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) define anemia en niños menores de cinco años de edad como aquellos valores inferiores de hemoglobina (Hb) a 11 g/dL y de hematócrito (Hto) a 0.33 L/L (33%). Sin embargo, diversos ...

    • Breast milk consumption in rural Costa Rica 

      Novotny, Rachel; Mata Jiménez, Leonardo (Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición p. 337 - 386, 1983)
      Breast milk consumption was measured in 20 breast-feeding infants, aged two days to six months. This was achieved by test-weighing infants before and after every feeding over a 24-hour period. Infant length, weight, number ...

    • Breast-feeding, infections and infant outcomes: an international perspective 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo (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 ...

    • Breast-feeding: helping to reduce the severity of diarrhoea. Protection, energy and nutrients 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo (Diarrhoea Dialogue ;17:p. 4-5, 1984-05)
      Leonardo Mats considers the unique role of breastfeeding in child health and survival, and possible interventions to promote it in areas where bottle-feeding is common. The exceptional properties of human milk are the: ...

    • Child feedings in less developed countries: induced breast feeding in a transitional society 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo; Murillo González, Sandra; Jiménez, Patricia; Allen, María de los Ángeles; García, Bertha (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 ...

    • Comparison of Tropical and Temperate Zone Diarrheal Problems 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo (1978)
      In the past. we thought there were differences hetween tropica! and temperate zones in the etiology of intestinal diseases. Recent observations indicate that such differences do not exist. Infectious agents are ubiquitous. ...

    • Consumo de algunos alimentos y preparaciones en niños preescolares y adultos de un área rural y una comunidad urbana del Valle Central de Costa Rica 

      Chinnock Mc'Neil, Anne Eliza (1993)
      En este trabajo se presentan datos sobre tamaños de porciones de 13 diferentes alimentos y preparaciones en un área, rural y en una comunidad urbana. Los resultados se analizaron para; hombres, mujeres y niños preescolares ...

    • Criterios para evaluar el estado nutricional del niño 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo (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 ...

    • Desnutrición y privación en el niño. Observaciones en Guatemala y Costa Rica. 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo (Alimentación y Nutrición (FAO) 6:8-16, 1980)
      Las poblaciones.tradicionales formadas de grupos tribales pequeñitos, que viven en estrecho contacto con la naturaleza, pueden encontrarse virtualmente exentas de desnutrición endémica gracias a la ausencia relativa ...

    • Diarrhea and Malnutrition: Breastfeeding Intervention in a Transitional Population 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo; Jiménez, Patricia; Allen, María de los Ángeles; Vargas, William; García, María Eugenia; Urrutia, Juan José; Wyatt, Richard G. (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 ...

    • Malnutrition and concurrent infections. Comparison of two populations with different infection rates 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo (Viral Diseasses in South-East Asia and the Wester Pacific, 1982)
      Repetitive infections induce malnutrition and growth retardation in children living in impoverished environments, even if food is available. Infection precipitates severe malnutrition in individuals already undernourished. ...

    • La nutrición en Costa Rica 

      de Céspedes Montealegre, Carlos (1991)
      El nuevo Hospital Nacional de Niños se había inaugurado cinco años atrás; sus flamantes instalaciones contrastaban con la incómoda construcción de madera del Hospital San Juan de Dios, nuestro Hospital General. No obstante ...

    • Promotion of Breast Feeding, Health, and Survival of Infants Through Hospital and Field Interventions 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo; Carvajal, Juan J.; García, María Eugenia; Sáenz, Patricia; Allen, María de los Ángeles; Araya, José R.; Rodríguez, María E. (Malnutrition: Determinants and consequences.New York: Liss, Inc 123-138, 1984)
      Most authorities agree that the decline in the rate and duration of breast feeding in urban areas in many developing countries has been the result of urbanization and influences of Western culture. Two sequalae have been ...

    • 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, ...

    • ¿Sobrepeso o "achicamiento" en escolares de sexto grado de un área metropolitana? 

      Serrú Díaz, Lisseth; Laclé Murray, Adriana; Coto, Carolina (Revista Costarricense de Salud Pública 22(22) ; p 55-65, 2003)
      Title: Overweight or "stunting" in sixth grade scholars from an urban marginal metropolitan area?. Introduction: Obesity is the most prevalent nutritional disorder in Costa Rican children and adolescents. The last Nutritional ...

    • The evolution of diarrhoeal diseases and malnutrition in Costa Rica: The role of interventions 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo (Assignment Child (61-62) p.195-224, 1983)
      Costa Rica has an infant mortality rate of 17.7%, one of the lowest for developing countries. While it is noted that it is difficult to demonstrate the contributions of specific interventions in accounting for the drastic ...