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Acceso y disponibilidad de servicios de salud en Costa Rica 2000
(2004)
El estudio ensambla un sistema de información geográfica (SIG) y usa técnicas de análisis espacial para relacionar la población del censo del 2000 (la demanda) con un inventario de los establecimientos de salud (la oferta). ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
¿Son los nonagenarios costarricenses los seres humanos más longevos?
(2005)
Con base en datos de un registro de población que se lleva en Costa Rica
con propósitos electorales, este artículo reestima la mortalidad y la
esperanza de vida de los nonagenarios costarricenses. El registro contiene
24.400 ...
La demografía y la seguridad social en Costa Rica
(2016)
Los costarricenses acordaron un pacto tácito de solidaridad entre generaciones, cuando establecieron el sistema de seguridad social en 1941. En este pacto, las generaciones jóvenes transfieren una fracción de su salario a ...
Los servicios de planificación familiar
(1994)
El presente capítulo analiza diversos aspectos de la oferta de servicios de planificación familiar, a saber: los proveedores de servicios públicos y privados, la accesibilidad y calidad de estos servicios y algunos costos ...
Studies of the Costa Rican Model I: Peace, Health and Development in Costa Rica
(1993)
Costa Ricans have cultivated peace and democracy for decades.
They have also achieved outstanding levels of health. Their
economic well-being is not so good, however. The 1949 constitution
abolished the armed forces in ...
Child Mortality and the Fertility Transition: Aggregated and Multilevel Evidence from Costa Rica
(1998)
The author explores whether reduced child mortality is needed in order to realize fertility transition by examining empirical evidence from Costa Rica, a developing country which decreased both child mortality and birth ...
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 ...