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Women’s participation in pap smear screening in a developing country: evidence for improving health systems
(2021-06-15)
Introduction: Every year about 83,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer in the Americas. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has one of the highest incidence and mortality rates from cervical cancer in the world. ...
Variación geográfica del cáncer invasor del cuello uterino en Costa Rica
(1993)
En Costa Rica, la incidencia de cáncer del cuello uterino en las zonas costeras es casi el doble que en las del interior. Para determinar si la variación regional es reflejo de los programas de detección de una prevalencia ...
Cáncer gástrico, epidemiología y prevención
(Acta Médica Costarricense 44(2):55-61, 2002)
El cáncer gástrico es una de las neoplasias que produce mayor mortalidad en la población mundial. A pesar de que las tasas de incidencia están disminuyendo, sigue siendo un problema de salud pública. La información y el ...
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 ...
Criptosporidiosis in children from some highland costa rican rural and urban areas
(The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 32(1):24-29, 1984)
This report summarizes both a prospective study of diarrhea in cohorts of
rural children in their natural ecosystem, and a vertical study of diarrheic urban children
attending a hospital emergency service. Cryptosporidium ...
Cutaneous leishmaniasis in rural Costa Rica (Short report)
(1989-05)
Cutaneous leishmaniasis occurs in people exposed
to wet, forested regions of Costa Rica. Although it is a
reportable disease, there is no definitive information
on prevalence of either present or past infection in
rural ...
Genetic variation in the Bribri and Cabecar Amerindians from Talamanca, Costa Rica
(1991)
A screening of more than 40 loci was performed in the Bribri and Cabecar Amerindian populations of Talamanca in Southeastern Costa Rica. Some differences were found in the distribution (presence or absence) of the variants ...
Proyección del Síndrome de Inmunodeficiencia Adquirida (SIDA) en Costa Rica para el quinquenio 1988-1992
(Rev. Cost. Cienc. Méd. 1988; 9 (3): 53-62, 1988)
Se presentan estimaciones sobre el número
probable de infecciones por el HIV y de casos
de SIDA en la población general de Costa Rica,
con especial énfasis en los hombres
homosexuales, para el quinquenio 1988-1992.
Se ...
High levels of somatic DNA diversity at the myotonic dystrophy type 1 locus are driven by ultra-frequent expansion and contraction mutations
(Human Molecular Genetics, 2012, Vol. 21, No. 11 2450–2463, 2012-02-24)
Several human genetic diseases are associated with inheriting an abnormally large unstable DNA simple sequence
repeat. These sequences mutate, by changing the number of repeats, many times during the lifetime
of those ...
Siesta and the risk of coronary heart disease: results from a population-based, case-control study in Costa Rica
(2000)
Background The siesta (afternoon nap or rest), a common traditional behaviour in tropical areas, may increase the risk of myocardial infarction (MI) since the post siesta cardiovascular response very closely resembles the ...