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Descenso de la mortalidad por desnutrición en niños menores de cinco años en Costa Rica, 1970 y 1976
(Revista Médica del Hospital Nacional de Niños Dr. Carlos Sáenz Herrera: 15(1): 31-44. 1980, 1980)
En 1970 y 1976, la desnutrición como causa de muerte en niños menores de cinco años ocupó el décimo y quinto lugar, respectivamente, según las estadísticas vitales de Costa Rica. Tales cifras, revelaban un aumento de 119 ...
Breast-feeding: main promoter of infant health
(1978-11)
Unique immunological factors in breast milk arc responsible for the protection
it affords infants against pathogenic agents. This protection is panicularly effective against the
infectious agents which invade or colonize ...
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 ...
Oral rehydration of neonates with dehydrating diarrhoeas
(The Lancet Vol 314(8154): 1209-1210. Dec 08, 1979., 1979-12-08)
Thirty-nine of forty neonates with mean
dehydration equivalent to 6.7% of bodyweight
were orally rehydrated with a glucose/electrolyte
solution. Only one patient required any intravenous
fluids for rehydration. ...
Rehidratacion por via oral y su mantenimiento en pacientes de 0 a 3 meses de edad deshidratados por diarrea
(Bol Med Hosp Infant Mex 37(5):187-191, 1980 Sep-Oct, 1980-09)
Los estudios recientes sobre rehidratación por vía oral han sido hechos en pacientes de 3 meses de edad o mayores. Exceptuando un informe anterior de niños menores de un mes de edad deshidratados por diarrea aguda que ...
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 ...
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 ...
Comparison of Tropical and Temperate Zone Diarrheal Problems
(1978)
In the past. we thought there were differences hetween tropica! and temperate
zones in the etiology of intestinal diseases. Recent observations indicate that
such differences do not exist. Infectious agents are ubiquitous. ...
As seen from national levels: Developing world
(1978)
The grim.realities involved with the solution of such world problems as
.' food, energy and pollution make it difficult to address such issues with
'vhptimism (Meadows et al. 1972; Mesarovic and Peste! 1974). On the ...