Listar Medicina, ciencias biomédicas y salud pública por tipo "capítulo de libro"
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Environmental factors affecting nutrition and growth
(1985)Epidemiologic studies in tropical and subtropical regions highlighted the interaction between malnutrition and infectious disease and its contribution to determining morbidity and mortality in developing countries. There ... -
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 etiología viral de las diarreas
(1976)Durante años, muchos investigadores se esforzaron por buscar explicaciones etiologicas de las diarreas denominadas no-bacterianas 0 no-especificas, las cuales presentan como casos aislados, pequefios brotes 0 ... -
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 ... -
Factores determinantes de la realizacion de la prueba de VIH en Costa Rica
(2014)El objetivo de este estudio es dilucidar las características de la población asociadas a que las personas se realicen la prueba de VIH en Costa Rica. La fuente de información utilizada es la Encuesta Nacional de Salud ... -
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 ... -
Fertility and infant mortality in Costa Rica
(1992)Costa Rica is a small country, geographically situated in the Central American isthmus, with 2.2 million inhabitants. Although its exports are mainly of an agricultural nature, the country has reached a level of welfare ... -
Giardiasis: Impact on child growth
(1986)Chronic disorders of the gastrointestinal tract may impair physical growth during infancy and childhood. Growth retardation has been particularly well documented in children with Crohn's disease and coeliac disease in which ... -
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 ... -
Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Tributyrin and Vitamin A in Cancer
(2017)Bioactive food compounds like vitamin A and the butyrate’s prodrug tributyrin have preventive activities against different types of cancer, and their use in association could represent a promising strategy for cancer ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Infant mortality and birth rates
(1994-12)It has been suggested that decreasing infant mortality is a prerequisite for decreasing birth rates and the experience in several countries shows that decreasing infant mortality rates are indeed followed by declining ... -
Infección en la mujer embrazada y su influencia en el producto de la concepción
(Aspectos Perinatales del Parto Prematuro. Althabe, O. y R. Schwarcz (editores), El Ateneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 199-213, 1978, 1978)La mujer embarazada está sujeta a una serie de cambios de tipo nutricional, bioquímico, metabólico y endocrinológico. Durante el embarazo, estos procesos pueden permanecer sin alteración o bien ser aumentados o suprimidos ... -
La lutte contre les maladies diarrhéiques, le cas du Costa Rica
(1985)Le taux de mortalite infantile du Costa Rica est recemment tombs a 18 p. 1000, devenant ainsi l'un des plus faible du Tiers monde. Dans cet extraordinaire progres, la reduction des maladies diarrheiques a joue un role ... -
L’education sanitaire mise en question
(Springer verlag, 1984)La presente étude se propose de passer en revue les problèmes d’efficience et d’efficacité que soulève la mise en question de la fonction d’éducation de la population pour la santé. Placée dans le cadre de la théorie des ... -
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 ... -
National cancer registry, 1980-1983
(1988)Legislation making cancer a notifiable disease was introduced in Costa Rica in 1976. At the same time, a National Tumour Registry was established, and collection of data commenced in March 1977. The aims of the National ... -
Natural history of viruses of the intestine in contrasting ecosystems: implications for health
(1987)Many different viruses have the capacity for infecting and replicating in micro-habitats of the intestinal tract. Eons of interaction between intestinal viruses and the intestinal mucosa have lead to a variety of ... -
Nutritional consequences of infection
(1986)This discussion will review current knowledge on malnutrition infection interactions, to provide a basis for justifiable interventions to curtail infectious diseases. Interventions should be implemented within the frame ...