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Infections and infectious diseases in a malnourished population: a long-term prospective field study
(1977)
The importance of infectious disease and its
role in the shaping of the history of mankind
has been recognized since Biblical times.
Pestilences were recorded in many classical
books, while most religions developed ...
Survival and Physical Growth in Infancy and Early Childhood Study of Birth Weight and Gestational Age in a Guatemalan Indian Village
(1975-05)
Many factors contribute independently
or jointly to the cause and
pathogenesis of low birth weight. Attempts
to identify these factors in a
given population, however, are usually
unsuccessful, and conclusions ...
Descenso de la mortalidad por desnutrición en niños menores de cinco años en Costa Rica, 1970 y 1976
(Revista Médica del Hospital Nacional de Niños Dr. Carlos Sáenz Herrera: 15(1): 31-44. 1980, 1980)
En 1970 y 1976, la desnutrición como causa de muerte en niños menores de cinco años ocupó el décimo y quinto lugar, respectivamente, según las estadísticas vitales de Costa Rica. Tales cifras, revelaban un aumento de 119 ...
Rehidratación oral en Costa Rica
(Revista de la Sociedad Venezolana de Gastroenterología 36(1):81-84, 1982-03)
Alrededor de 1963 reinaba una anarquía en los hospitales de Costa Rica en cuanto a la rehidrataci6n intravenosa para tratar la diarrea severa. Las normas existentes fueron revisadas entonces por el Dr. Rodrigo Loría Cortés ...
Breast-feeding: main promoter of infant health
(1978-11)
Unique immunological factors in breast milk arc responsible for the protection
it affords infants against pathogenic agents. This protection is panicularly effective against the
infectious agents which invade or colonize ...
Oral rehydration and maintenance of children with rotavirus and bacterial diarrhoeas
Rehydratation mr vole orale et maintien de l'equilibre chez les jeunes enfants atteints de diarrhee a rotavirus ou a bacteries
(Bull World Health Organ. 1979; 57(3): 453–459, 1979)
To determine whether oral glucose-electrolytes therapy could be adapted with equal success to infants with diarrhoea of bacterial and viral etiologies, oral glucose-electrolytes therapy was studied in a setting where all ...
Mezclas vegetales nutritivas y simples para el niño costarricense
(Revista Medica Hospital Nacional de Niños Dr. Carlos Sáenz Herrera, Costa Rica 15(1): 71-90, 1980)
Con el fin de contribuir a mejorar la alimentación del niño costarricense, se
elaboraron mezclas vegetales teóricas de alto valor nutritivo. Esas mezclas consisten
en la combinación de una leguminosa con un cereal o ...
Magnitude and impact of diarrhoeal disease
(1988-12)
Diarrhoea seems to be a minor problem in humans and other mammals
living in small, isolated tribes or groups. Under such conditions there is
limited, if any, introduction of pathogenic agents and, if agents are ...
Public health implications of low birth weight
(1977)
The present paper interpets the significance of anthropometric data of newborns
from a typical Indian village of Guatemala and from the general population of Costa
Rica. A good correlation exists between a deficient fetal ...
Child malnutrition and deprivation - observations in Guatemala and Costa Rica
(Food and Nutrition, 6(2), 7-14, 1980)
Traditional populations consisting of small tribal groups living in close contact with
nature may be virtually free from endemic malnutrition owing to the relative absence of
infectious diseases. Transition toward ...