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Estacionalidad de la mortalidad en los trópicos. El caso de Costa Rica, 1970-2016
Seasonal Variation of Mortality in the Tropics. The Case of Costa Rica, 1970-2016
(2019)
El objetivo de esta investigación es determinar la existencia y magnitud de ciclos de variación estacional en la mortalidad de Costa Rica de 1970 a 2016. Metodológicamente, el estudio se basa en microdatos de 630,000 ...
La Costa Rica sin padres: el reconocimiento de la paternidad y de la pensión alimentaria
(2001)
La proporción de nacimientos fuera del matrimonio, y de niños no reconocidos por sus padres ha aumentado considerablemente en Costa Rica en los últimos años, lo cual ha generado un debate sobre la importancia del problema. ...
Demographic Diversity and Change in the Central American Isthmus
(1997)
This book is the first English-language collection of recent research on demographic, social, and environmental issues in Central America. The region's experience with ethnic and cultural identity provides food for thought ...
La reducción de la mortalidad de adultos
(1995-04)
Los estudios sobre la transición epidemiológica de Costa Rica se han concentrado en los niños en razón de que el principal factor en la reducción de la mortalidad ha sido la prevención de las muertes prematuras (Behm, 1976; ...
Sexual Behavior, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Risk of Cervical Cancer
(1995-03-14)
To explore sexually transmitted diseases and sexual behavior as risk factors for cervical cancer, we analyzed data from a population-based case-control study of breast and cervical cancer in Costa Rica. Data from 415 cases ...
Fertility and infant mortality in Costa Rica
(1992)
Costa Rica is a small country, geographically situated in the Central American isthmus, with 2.2 million inhabitants. Although its exports are mainly of an agricultural nature, the country has reached a level of welfare ...
Social Capital, Urban Settings and Demographic Behavior in Latin America
(2006)
Basándose en muestras probabilísticas
de 12.000 adultos de ocho pa
íses latinoamericanos, se estudian
dos dimensiones del capital social
–(1) participación comunitaria y (2) confianza en los vecinos– y su
relación ...
Is Latin America starting to retreat from early and universal childbearing?
(2009-02-20)
The 2000 censuses show that the proportion of women below age 30 who are mothers has dropped substantially in most Latin America countries, suggesting that the social imperative of early motherhood, which has long prevailed ...
Predicting Survival from Telomere Length versus Conventional Predictors: A Multinational Population-Based Cohort Study
(2016-04)
Telomere length has generated substantial interest as a potential predictor of aging- related diseases and mortality. Some studies have reported significant associations, but few have tested its ability to discriminate ...
Stressors Over the Life Course and Neuroendocrine System Dysregulation in Costa Rica
(Journal of Aging and Health XX(X) 1–24, 2010-05-28)
Objectives: A key aspect of the increasingly popular allostatic load (AL) framework is that stressors experienced over the entire life course result in physiological dysregulation. Although core to AL theory, this idea has ...