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Physical accessibility to health facilities in Costa Rica
(1993)
This paper estimates physical accessibility to health services in Costa Rican communities and identifies target geographic areas for opening new health facilities. The analyses use geographic information system (GIS) methods ...
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 ...
Global Importance of Diarrhieal Diseases and Malnutrition
(1985)
The amount of new knowledge accumulated in the past 15 years about the aetiology, epidemiology, and public significance of diarrhoeal disease is quite remarkable, particularly because such knowledge has challenged orthodox ...
Enfermedades causadas por Xylella fastidiosa en Estados Unidos y Costa Rica
(2017)
El texto habla sobre Estados Unidos y su historia en relación a las enfermedades causadas por la bacteria Xylella fastidiosa. Se mencionan los primeros registros de estas enfermedades en la década de 1880 y cómo se descubrió ...
Membrane-damaging and cytotoxic sphingomyelinases and phospholipases
(2015-06-05)
This chapter presents an overview of the classification, structure, and main physiopathological activities of bacterial sphingomyelinases and phospholipases, providing examples of their roles as virulence factors in several ...
La fecundidad en Costa Rica: 1992–2010
(2012)
La Encuesta Nacional de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva, llevada a cabo el año 2010, confirma los cambios en la fecundidad de las mujeres. No obstante que el cambio en la tasa global de fecundidad es conocido por medio de la ...
The fight against diarrhoeal diseases: The case of Costa Rica
(1985)
Like most developing nations, Costa Rica exhibited a very high morbidity and mortality attributable to diarrhoeal diseases during the first half of this century. Relatively good data on total population and on diarrhoea ...
Bioética en la experimentación en seres humanos en Costa Rica
(2000)
Uno de los mayores avances de la civilización ha sido la discusión filosófica sobre las intervenciones que el Homo sapiens ha hecho en su propia especie, ya motivado por el afán de mejorarla, ya estimulado por el poder, ...
Homozygous Mutation in GPT2 Associated with Nonsyndromic Intellectual Disability in a Consanguineous Family from Costa Rica
(2016)
Intellectual disability is a highly heterogeneous disease that affects the central nervous system and impairs patients’ ability to function independently. Despite multiples genes involved in the etiology of disease, most ...
Shigellosis
(Diseases of children in the Subtropics and Tropics. Jelliffe DB, Stanfield JP, ed. 3d edition. London, Edward Arnold, 1978. p. 492-498, 1978)
Shigecllosis is an infectious disease caused by Shigellae, which are bacilli with capacity to invade the mucosa of the colon and less frequently the ileum. The disease occurs spora-dically and in epidemics with mild to ...