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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Recuperación del desnutrido severo en Costa Rica, mediante alimentacion hipercalórica
(Boletín Médico del Hospital Infantil de México 37(3), 483-497, 1980-05)
Este estudio fue realizado en niños desnutridos del Servicio de Medicina del Hospital Nacional de Niños (edad promedio de 7.5 meses, 55,2% del peso para edad y 4.3% del peso para talla). Los pacientes fueron tratados según ...
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 ...
Malnutrition-infection interactions in the tropics
(1975-07)
Mr. President Dr. Rozeboom, Officers and Members of the Society, ladies and gentlemen: I begin with a word of appreciation to Dr. Desowitz and Members of the Charles Franklin Craig Lectureship Committee for having invited ...
Diarrhea and Malnutrition: Breastfeeding Intervention in a Transitional Population
(Holme, T., Marcus Wallenberg Foundation for International Cooperation in Science., & World Health Organization. (1981). Acute enteric infections in children: New prospects for treatment and prevention : proceedings of the third Nobel conference. Amsterdam: Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press., 1981)
Diarrheal disease is a main cause of weight loss and growth faltering and stunting in rural children living under low socioeconomic conditions, and diarrhea is one of the most important events precipitating severe ...
Factor aglutinante de Rotavirus en calostro en mujeres costarricenses
(Rev. Méd. Hosp. Nal. Niño113(1): 45·52, 1978, 1978)
Estudios prospectivos en una comunidad indígena de Guatemala demostraron
la baja prevalencia de enfermedades infecciosas, especialmente de los
tractos gastrointestinal y respiratorio, en niños alimentados exclusivamente
al ...
The nature of the nutrition problem
(1978)
This paper attempts to conceptualize malnutrition
from an ecological point of view. One definition of
malnutrition, a term that in Spanish can be rendered
by either 'desnutricion' or 'malnutricion', is:
a pathologic ...