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Monitoring a primary health care program with lot quality assurance sampling: Costa Rica, 1987
(1990)
The Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LOAS) method was developed in industry to determine at reasonable cost whether each lot of a shipment is acceptable, based on samples of a few elements from the lot. Acting as inspectors ...
Centenarian clocks: epigenetic clocks for validating claims of exceptional longevity.
(2023)
Claims surrounding exceptional longevity are sometimes disputed or dismissed for lack of credible evidence. Here, we present three DNA methylation-based age estimators (epigenetic clocks) for verifying age claims of ...
¿Maternidad? No, gracias.
(2007-08-29)
Costa Rica está viviendo un fenómeno inédito de posposición, quizás indefinida, del primer embarazo entre jóvenes que se encuentran en sus veintes y hasta en sus treintas, en lo que podríamos calificar como la segunda gran ...
Fatherless Costa Rica: Child Acknowledgment and Support Among Lone Mothers
(2003)
Much debate is going on in Costa Rica about the increase of out-of-wedlock births and unestablished paternity in particular with regard to the elaboration of social policy measures. No systematic empirical data on the issue ...
La desventaja del hombre en longevidad y en su vejez
(2004-08-24)
La menor longevidad del hombre respecto a la mujer se aúna a condiciones inferiores de vida en la vejez de aquél para constituir una inequidad que no ha sido atendida por las políticas públicas de salud y tercera edad, ...
La salud del inmigrante
(2007-06-02)
Quienes migran son un grupo selecto de los más sanos, fuertes y emprendedores. Los inmigrantes nicaragüenses tienen una mortalidad 32% menor que los ticos de la misma edad.
Generational Transfers and Population Aging in Latin America
(Population and Development review 37 (Supplement): 143–157 (2011) 143, 2011)
Population aging, a direct consequence of the demographic transition, is often portrayed in negative, even dire terms. This chapter examines some of the probable effects of population aging in Latin America within the ...
Correlates of longitudinal leukocyte telomere length in the Costa Rican Longevity Study of Healthy Aging (CRELES): On the importance of DNA collection and storage procedures
(2019)
The objective is to identify cofactors of leukocyte telomere length (LTL) in a Latin American population, specifically the association of LTL with 36 socio-demographic, early childhood, and health characteristics, as well ...
The vanishing advantage of longevity in Nicoya, Costa Rica: A cohort shif
(2023)
BACKGROUND
The Nicoya region in Costa Rica has been identified as one of a handful of hotspots of
extreme longevity. The evidence supporting this status comes mostly from observing the
1990 and 2000 decades and cohorts ...
Susceptibilidad al tétanos y rubeola de las mujeres de Costa Rica, 1984-1985
(1988)
Se documenta por primera vez en Costa Rica, el nivel
de susceptibilidad al tétanos y la rubéola en la
población femenina costarricense entre los 25 y 29
años.
Se encuestó a 805 de las mujeres (93%) que
conformaban la ...