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Características sociodemográficas asociadas a la prevalencia del consumo de tabaco en Costa Rica
(2020)
Objetivo. Determinar las asociaciones existentes entre las características sociodemográficas y la prevalencia
del consumo actual de tabaco en Costa Rica, según los resultados de la Encuesta Global de Tabaquismo en
Adultos ...
Measuring Socioeconomic Position From The Social Inequalities In Health Perspective?: The Case of Costa Rica
¿Cómo medir la posición socioeconómica en el marco de las inequidades sociales de salud?: El caso de Costa Rica
(2019-05-20)
Introduction: Measuring socioeconomic position (SEP) is central in the analysis of social inequalities in health (SIH). It requires the use of updated instruments, adapted to a particular conceptual framework, taking into ...
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 ...
Estimating vaccine effectiveness against SARS‑CoV‑2 infection, hospitalization and death from ecologic data in Costa Rica
(2022-10-02)
Abstract
Background: Clinical trials and individual-level observational data in Israel demonstrated approximately 95% effectiveness
of mRNA-based vaccines against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection. Individual-level data ...
Adverse childhood experiences and physiological wear-and-tear in midlife: Findings from the 1958 British birth cohort
(2015)
Allostatic load (AL) is a measure of overall physiological wear-and-tear over the life course, which could partially be the consequence of early life exposures. AL could allow a better understanding of the potential ...
Les adversités durant l’enfance et la charge allostatique à l’âge adulte : résultats de la cohorte de naissances britannique de 1958
(2016-04-01)
Introduction: La charge allostatique (CA) est une mesure de l’usure physiologique globale qui pourrait être en partie le résultat des expositions précoces de la vie. La CA pourrait permettre de mieux comprendre les chemins ...
Mediating pathways between parental socio-economic position and allostatic load in mid-life: Findings from the 1958 British birth cohort
(2016)
Understanding how human environments affect our health by “getting under the skin” and penetrating the cells, organs and physiological systems of our bodies is a key tenet in public health research. Here, we examine the ...
Las inequidades de esperanza de vida según la provincia de nacimiento en Costa Rica entre 2013 y 2017
(2020)
Introducción. El objetivo de este estudio es determinar si existen inequidades de esperanza de
vida en Costa Rica, en función de la provincia de nacimiento y el sexo, entre 2013 y 2017. Se valora el rol de
las muertes ...
Disentangling the respective roles of the early environment and parental BMI on BMI change across childhood: A counterfactual analysis using the Millennium Cohort Study
(2016)
This study has two objectives. First, to analyse the respective roles of parental BMI and the wider environment on children's BMI across childhood, using a counterfactual analysis. Second, to determine if the correlations ...
Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality: Is Costa Rica an exception to the rule?
(2020-01)
Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality have been described for a range of cancers sites worldwide, using diverse measures of socioeconomic position (SEP). These studies have shown a negative social gradient where ...