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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 ...
Efectos locales en el envenenamiento ofídico en América Latina
(2003)
Los envenenamientos por mordedura de serpiente constituyen un importante problema de salud pública en América Latina. La gran mayoría de estos envenenamientos son causados por mordeduras de serpientes de la familia Viperidae, ...
Mortalidad por infección respiratoria aguda en Costa Rica
(1985)
La infección respiratoria es de importancia mundial por la alta morbilidad y mortalidad que causa. Se ha estimado que anualmente mueren 2,2 millones par infección respiratoria aguda. Este problema, importante en los países ...
Aging and Mental Health in a Longitudinal Study of Elderly Costa Ricans
(2015-04)
Geriatric depression and cognition impairment, including memory loss, are common neuropsychiatric
disorders at old age. Diagnosing these conditions in the context of a general population-based survey
conducted by nonmental ...
Exposure to N-nitrosamines and other risk factors for gastric cancer in Costa Rican children
(1991-04-01)
The hypothesis that endogenous chemical nitrosation in the normal stomach in early life
could play a crucial role in inducing chronic atrophic gastritis/intestinal metaplasia in
later life was tested by applying the ...
Epidemiology of acute diarrhea in Childhood: an overview
(Raven Press p 3-22, 1983)
Much has been learned about the epidemiology of acute diarrheal disease since the folk conceptualization of a syndrome caused by "food indigestion." Despite early recognition of shigellosis, salmonellosis, giardiasis, and ...
La situación de la investigación sobre discapacidad en Costa Rica
(2019)
Esta obra se constituye en un trabajo importante en el que se busca aportar a la problemática actual que vive la sociedad, referida a la brecha existente entre el conocimiento científico y la realidad, en este caso, en el ...
Planificación familiar
(2012)
Este capítulo analiza el conocimiento y el uso de los métodos de planificación familiar, en Costa Rica, a partir de los resultados de la Encuesta Nacional de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva, llevada a cabo el 2010.
Los ...
Breast feeding, Diarrheal Disease, and Malnutrition in Less Developed Countries
(Pediatric Nutrition. Infant Feeding- Deficiences - Diseases p. 355-372, 1982)
It has been known for centuries that non-breast-fed infants have a higher probability of dying prematurely than do breast-fed infants under conditions of underdevelopment. On the other hand, artificial feeding is more risky ...
Impact evaluation of the Health Sector Reform in Costa Rica
(2004)
Health Sector Reform was implemented gradually across Costa Rica in a sort of natural experiment that offers an opportunity to evaluate its impact. Assuming a quasi experimental evaluation design, this is an analysis of ...