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Physical accessibility to health facilities in Costa Rica
(1993)
This paper estimates physical accessibility to health services in Costa Rican communities and identifies target geographic areas for opening new health facilities. The analyses use geographic information system (GIS) methods ...
Global Importance of Diarrhieal Diseases and Malnutrition
(1985)
The amount of new knowledge accumulated in the past 15 years about the aetiology, epidemiology, and public significance of diarrhoeal disease is quite remarkable, particularly because such knowledge has challenged orthodox ...
La fecundidad en Costa Rica: 1992–2010
(2012)
La Encuesta Nacional de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva, llevada a cabo el año 2010, confirma los cambios en la fecundidad de las mujeres. No obstante que el cambio en la tasa global de fecundidad es conocido por medio de la ...
The fight against diarrhoeal diseases: The case of Costa Rica
(1985)
Like most developing nations, Costa Rica exhibited a very high morbidity and mortality attributable to diarrhoeal diseases during the first half of this century. Relatively good data on total population and on diarrhoea ...
Bioética en la experimentación en seres humanos en Costa Rica
(2000)
Uno de los mayores avances de la civilización ha sido la discusión filosófica sobre las intervenciones que el Homo sapiens ha hecho en su propia especie, ya motivado por el afán de mejorarla, ya estimulado por el poder, ...
Homozygous Mutation in GPT2 Associated with Nonsyndromic Intellectual Disability in a Consanguineous Family from Costa Rica
(2016)
Intellectual disability is a highly heterogeneous disease that affects the central nervous system and impairs patients’ ability to function independently. Despite multiples genes involved in the etiology of disease, most ...
Shigellosis
(Diseases of children in the Subtropics and Tropics. Jelliffe DB, Stanfield JP, ed. 3d edition. London, Edward Arnold, 1978. p. 492-498, 1978)
Shigecllosis is an infectious disease caused by Shigellae, which are bacilli with capacity to invade the mucosa of the colon and less frequently the ileum. The disease occurs spora-dically and in epidemics with mild to ...
Mortalidad por infección respiratoria aguda en Costa Rica
(1985)
La infección respiratoria es de importancia mundial por la alta morbilidad y mortalidad que causa. Se ha estimado que anualmente mueren 2,2 millones par infección respiratoria aguda. Este problema, importante en los países ...
Aging and Mental Health in a Longitudinal Study of Elderly Costa Ricans
(2015-04)
Geriatric depression and cognition impairment, including memory loss, are common neuropsychiatric
disorders at old age. Diagnosing these conditions in the context of a general population-based survey
conducted by nonmental ...
Exposure to N-nitrosamines and other risk factors for gastric cancer in Costa Rican children
(1991-04-01)
The hypothesis that endogenous chemical nitrosation in the normal stomach in early life
could play a crucial role in inducing chronic atrophic gastritis/intestinal metaplasia in
later life was tested by applying the ...