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Predicting mortality with biomarkers: a population-based prospective cohort study for elderly Costa Ricans
(Population Health Metrics 10(1), 2012)
Background: Little is known about adult health and mortality relationships outside high-income nations, partly
because few datasets have contained biomarker data in representative populations. Our objective is to ...
Epidemiología descriptiva del cáncer de mama y del cuello de útero en Costa Rica
(1987-05)
Se estudia la mortalidad e incidencia del cáncer de mama y cuello útero en Costa Rica y se las compara con datos de mujeres blancas de los Estados Unidos de América. La mortalidad por cáncer de mama en Costa Rica muestra ...
Fecundidad diferencial e inmigrantes nicaragüenses en Costa Rica
(Notas de Población (74) ; p. 27-51, 2002)
Sobre la base de información procedente del registro de nacimientos de
Costa Rica y de la fecundidad relativa de las inmigrantes comprendidas en
una encuesta por muestreo, en este estudio se estima que en 1998 el número
de ...
Factors associated with hypertension prevalence, unawareness and treatment among Costa Rican elderly
(BMC Public Health 8(275):1-11, 2008-08-05)
Background: Reliable information on the prevalence of hypertension is crucial in the development of health policies for prevention, control, and early diagnosis of this condition. This study describes the prevalence of ...
Fertility change in Costa Rica 1960-84: analysis of retrospective lifetime reproductive histories
(1989-10)
Lifetime reproductive histories of a 1984-85 nationally representative
sample of 870 women aged 25-59 years provided data to describe
the evolution of fertility, contraception, breast-feeding, and natural
fecundability ...
Infant Mortality in Costa Rica: Explaining the Recent Decline
(1986)
Costa Rica has undergone a dramatic reduction in its infant mortality rate from 68 per 1,000 live
births in 1970 to 20 per 1,000 in 1980. In the present study, changes during this century,
mortality differentials, and ...
Infant mortality and birth rates
(1994-12)
It has been suggested that decreasing infant
mortality is a prerequisite for decreasing birth
rates and the experience in several countries
shows that decreasing infant mortality rates
are indeed followed by declining ...
Seroepidemiology of Chlamydia in Costa Rica
(1990)
A population-based study of the sero-epidemiology of chlamydia was performed among a nationally representative sample of 760 Costa Rican women aged 25 to 59 years. Interviews and sera collection were completed between ...
Seroprevalence of human T-Lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) in Costa Rica
(1990)
Infection within the human T linphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I), a virus associated with two diseases, adult T-cell leukemia lyriphornal and tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-I associated myelopathy,2 is prevalent in Panama' ...
Assessing and interpreting birth spacing goals in Costa Rica
(1998)
A procedure for assessing birth spacing goals, an important component of fertility preferences, is proposed and applied to 1993 Costa Rican data. Based on a reverse or backward survival analysis, preferred birth intervals ...