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The Environment of the Malnourished Child
(1976)
The study of the relation of man to his environment in developing countries
emphasizes the inevitable need for societies to recognize the true causes of
infection, malnutrition, and poverty. The need is for improvement ...
A brief account of the history of family planning in Costa Rica
(2009)
Costa Rica has been a focus of demographic attention for at least two reasons: its startling rate of natural population growth, which peaked at 3.8% during 1955 and 1960 and which was considered one of the highest in the ...
The control and prevention of diarrheal diseases at the national level
(1986)
Dr. Rohde told us this morning that diarrhea and poor diet interact in a vicious circle leading to malnutrition and frequently maiming and killing infants and young children. It appears certain that diarrhea has deleterious ...
Breast-feeding, weaning and the diarrhoeal syndrome in a Guatemalan Indian village
(Ciba Foundation Symposium 42 (new series) published July 1976 by Elsevier/Excerpta Medica/North-Holland. pp.311-338., 1976)
Prospective studies in Mayan Indian children living in their natural setting were carried out from 1964 through 1974; observations began at birth and extended at least throughout the first three years of life. Adequate ...
Promotion of breastfeeding in Costa Rica: the Puriscal study
(1988-09-01)
The decline in rate and duration of breastfeeding in urban areas in developing
countries seems to have resulted from the transition from extended to nuclear
cofamilies
and exposure of young mothers to influences affecting ...
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 ...
Una aproximación a la sexualidad de los hombres y las mujeres desde la adolescencia hasta la adultez mayor
(2012)
Mediante el empleo de la base de datos de la ENSSR-10, se caracterizaron las prácticas de sexualidad de una muestra representativa de la población de hombres y mujeres, de 15 a 79 años de edad. A lo largo del ciclo de vida, ...
The Santa María Cauqué Study: Health and survival of Mayan indians under deprivation, Guatemala
(1995)
The study discussed in this chapter is described in detail with multiple photographs, figures, tables and references in the book The Children of Santa Maria Cauqui: A Prospective FieldStudy ofHealth and Growth (Mata, 1978a). ...
Acceso y disponibilidad de servicios de salud en Costa Rica 2000
(2004)
El estudio ensambla un sistema de información geográfica (SIG) y usa técnicas de análisis espacial para relacionar la población del censo del 2000 (la demanda) con un inventario de los establecimientos de salud (la oferta). ...
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 ...