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 ...

The importance of infectious disease and its role in the shaping of the history of mankind has been recognized since Biblical times. Pestilences were recorded in many classical books, while most religions developed ...

Many factors contribute independently or jointly to the cause and pathogenesis of low birth weight. Attempts to identify these factors in a given population, however, are usually unsuccessful, and conclusions ...

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 ...

Los patrones de morbilidad y mortalidad por cáncer varían considerablemente entre países; sin embargo, las razones para explicar este fenómeno no parecen claras. En algunos casos influyen los servicios de salud, pero la ...

In a randomised double-blind trial, 51 5-10% dehydrated infants were rehydrated with oral electrolyte solutions containing sucrose or glucose. Most infants in both groups were successfuUy rehydrated, but the sucrose ...

A prospective observation of 45 cohort children from birth to three years of age permitted the collection of 5689 weekly stool specimens, along with frequent morbidity, dietary and growth data. Specimens tested by the ...

A principios de 1978, el Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICIT) nombró una Comisión para re-dactar un documento sobre ciencia y tecno-logía en el Sector Salud de Costa Rica. Dicho documento ...

This paper shows that mortality due to diarrheal diseases in Costa Rica began to decline in the 1940's. After a period of arrest during 1948-1964, the decline reached a low of 12 deaths per 100,000 population in 1977. ...

Thirteen of 120 Venezuelan children with acute diarrhea were found to be excreting Cryptosporidium oocysts in their stools. This confirms that Cryptosporidiurn can infect immunocompetent children, and the relatively high ...