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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 ...
Interactions of malnutrition and infection
(Arab World Printing House. In: Practical approaches to combat malnutrition with special reference to mothers and children. Cairo, Egypt. May 25-29, 1977. N.S. Scrimshaw y M. Gabr (editors). Ministry of Health, Cairo, Egypt, Arab World Printing House, Egypt, p.134-144, 1979., 1979-05)
It is impossible and impracticable to separate health problems from their environmental causes. Thus, a quick glance at the present world distribution of famine and of severe and chronic malnutrition reveals a concentration ...
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 ...
A brief account of the history of family planning in Costa Rica
(2009)
Costa Rica has been a focus of demographic attention for at least two reasons: its startling rate of natural population growth, which peaked at 3.8% during 1955 and 1960 and which was considered one of the highest in the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...