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A Population-based Serosurveillance of Syphilis in Costa Rica
(1991-04)
As part of a case-control study to investigate the high incidence of cervical cancer in Costa Rican women, the seroprevalence of the treponematoses, in particular, syphilis was determined. In each age group, women with a ...
Six Ways Population Change Will Affect the Global Economy
(2022-03)
New estimates of economic flows by age combined with population projections show that in the coming decades (1) global GDP growth could be slower by about 1 percentage point per year, declining more sharply than population ...
The Nicoya region of Costa Rica: A high longevity island for elderly males
(Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vol 11, 2013-11)
Reliable data show that the Nicoyan region of Costa Rica is a hot spot of high
longevity. A survival follow-up of 16,300 elderly Costa Ricans estimated a Nicoya
death rate ratio (DRR) for males 1990–2011 of 0.80 (0.69–0.93 ...
Reproductive history and breast cancer in a population of high fertility, Costa Rica, 1984-85
(1987)
The relationship between breast cancer and women's reproductive history in Costa Rica was analyzed using logistic regression methods on data from 171 breast cancer cases and 826 population-based controls aged 25–58 years. ...
Las transferencias intergeneracionales en Costa Rica
(Notas de Población N° 90 CEPAL 111-132, 2010-11)
En este artículo se presentan las estimaciones del sistema de transferencias intergeneracionales de
Costa Rica para 1991 y 2004. Los resultados más destacados de este ejercicio permitieron advertir
que el tramo de edades ...
Disease and weight loss: a prospective study of middle-aged and older adults in Costa Rica and England
(2015)
Objective. To determine whether disease predicts weight loss in population-based studies, as this may confound the relationship between weight and mortality. Materials and methods. We used longitudinal data from the Costa ...
Helicobacter pylori infection and serum pepsinogen concentrations in an elderly population representative of Costa Rica
(2022)
INTRODUCTION: Costa Rica has among the highest mortality rates from gastric cancer in the world, largely due to late detection. It is therefore important that economically and logistically sustainable screening is implemented ...
Poniéndole números al virus en Costa Rica
(2020-04-11)
Presumiendo la total inacción de la covid-19, el curso natural de la enfermedad en Costa Rica llegaría a un acumulado de 36.000 muertos. Las simulaciones expuestas no son predicciones, sino abstracciones que nos ayudan a ...
Population ageing, intergenerational transfers and demographic dividend in Ecuador
(2015)
This paper analyses economic flows over the lifecycle in Ecuador, a middle-income country that
is anticipating rapid population ageing. Using the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) framework, the
paper develops estimates ...
La demografía y la seguridad social en Costa Rica
(2016)
Los costarricenses acordaron un pacto tácito de solidaridad entre generaciones, cuando establecieron el sistema de seguridad social en 1941. En este pacto, las generaciones jóvenes transfieren una fracción de su salario a ...