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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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
A polymorphism in the MSH3 mismatch repair gene is associated with the levels of somatic instability of the expanded CTG repeat in the blood DNA of myotonic dystrophy type 1 patients
(2016-04)
Somatic mosaicism of the expanded CTG repeat in myotonic dystrophy type 1 is age-dependent, tissuespecific and expansion-biased, contributing toward the tissue-specificity and progressive nature of the symptoms. Previously, ...
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 ...
Determinantes sociales de la salud y prevalencia de sobrepesoobesidad en mujeres urbanas, según nivel socioeconómico
Social determinants of health and prevalence of overweightobesity in urban women according to their socioeconomic level
Determinantes sociais da saúde e prevalência de sobrepesoobesidade em mulheres urbanas, segundo nível socioeconômico
(2021)
La obesidad es un factor de riesgo para diferentes enfermedades crónicas y está asociada a factores genéticos,
ambientales y sociales. Objetivo: analizar la asociación entre los determinantes sociales de la salud y ...