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Women’s participation in pap smear screening in a developing country: evidence for improving health systems
(2021-06-15)
Introduction: Every year about 83,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer in the Americas. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has one of the highest incidence and mortality rates from cervical cancer in the world. ...
Social gradient in cancer incidence in Costa Rica: Findings from a national population-based cancer registry
(2020)
Background: The main evidence regarding social inequalities in cancer risk comes from industrialized countries. The aim of this manuscript was to analyze the association between cancer incidence and socioeconomic position ...
Violencia obstétrica y su relación con determinantes sociales de la salud a partir de evidencia estadística en Costa Rica (2009-2011 y 2016-2018)
(2020-07)
La violencia obstétrica, como categoría que atenta contra los derechos de las mujeres, la salud y la no discriminación, ha estado ausente tanto de las discusiones epistemológicas como en las estadísticas oficiales. En Costa ...
Retiro de medicamentos antineoplásicos en un hospital nacional en Costa Rica
Antineoplastic medication pick-up rates in a Costa Rican national hospital
(2019)
Objetivo: Analizar los porcentajes de dosis retiradas de medicamentos
oncológicos no incluidos en la Lista Oficial de
Medicamentos según el servicio médico prescriptor y la vía
de administración del fármaco, en un ...
Breast Cancer: A Public Health Issue that is also Subject of Social Construction
(2020)
Breast cancer claims thousands of lives all over the world every year. A historical perspective on the social construction of breast cancer policy is presented. This mini review examines breast cancer through a historical ...
Consumo de embutidos en mujeres costarricenses: efecto del nivel socioeconómico
Intake of processed meats by Costa Rican women: effect of socioeconomic status
(2021)
Introducción: El consumo de embutidos se ha asociado con serios problemas de salud que son comunes entre la población femenina. En el 2015 la Agencia Internacional para la Investigación en Cáncer clasificó los
embutidos, ...
Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) clinical subtypes and CTCF site methylation status flanking the CTG expansion are mutant allele length-dependent
(2021)
Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is a complex disease with a wide spectrum of symptoms. The exact relationship between
mutant CTG repeat expansion size and clinical outcome remains unclear. DM1 congenital patients (CDM) ...
A somatic coliphage threshold approach to improve the management of activated sludge wastewater treatment plant effluents in resource-limited regions
(2020-06)
Effective wastewater management is crucial to ensure the safety of water reuse projects and
29 effluent discharge into surface waters. Multiple studies have demonstrated that municipal
30 wastewater treatment with ...
Diabetes epidemics: inequalities increase the burden on the healthcare system
(2019)
Diabetes is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and represents a source of demands on already constrained healthcare systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. We estimate inequalities in diabetes incidence, prevalence ...
Social inequalities in cancer survival: A population-based study using the Costa Rican Cancer Registry
(2020)
Background: Social inequalities in survival after cancer diagnosis have been described in several high-income
countries, all cancer sites combined and for several specific cancer sites. The objective of this study was ...