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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 ...
Environmental factors affecting nutrition and growth
(1985)
Epidemiologic studies in tropical and subtropical regions highlighted the interaction between malnutrition and infectious disease and its contribution to determining morbidity and mortality in developing countries. There ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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). ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...