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Child feedings in less developed countries: induced breast feeding in a transitional society
(Pediatric Nutrition. Infant Feeding- Deficiencies - Diseases. F. Lifshitz, ed., Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York (1982) p. 35-53, 1982)
Breast feeding is the best promoter of growth and health of infants in traditional
and transitional societies. Supplementation with semisolid and solid foods is
generally required after 3-6 months in most developing ...
El ambiente biológico y el estado nutricional
El ambiente biológico y el estado nutricional
(Análisis de la situación alimentania-nutricional en Costa Rica. Secretaría de la Política Nacional de Alimentación y Nutrición. L. Sánz, editor. p.113-129, 1981., 1981)
Los estados de buena o mala nutrición -y sus grados intermedios- son el resultado de la interacción del huésped (el hombre) con su ambiente. Se entiende por ambiente todo aquello que rodea al ser humano y que es capaz de ...
Diarrhea and malnutrition, research priorities: Research Priorities
(Diarrhea and malnutrition: interactions, mechanisms, and interventions; Plenum Press p 305 308, 1983)
There have been many recent advances in our understanding of the etiology, pathogenesis, mechanisms, and management of acute and chronic diarrheal disease. Many studies have investigated the role of diarrhea in producing ...
Infections and infectious diseases in a malnourished population: a long-term prospective field study
(1977)
The importance of infectious disease and its
role in the shaping of the history of mankind
has been recognized since Biblical times.
Pestilences were recorded in many classical
books, while most religions developed ...
The nature of the nutrition problem
(1978)
This paper attempts to conceptualize malnutrition
from an ecological point of view. One definition of
malnutrition, a term that in Spanish can be rendered
by either 'desnutricion' or 'malnutricion', is:
a pathologic ...
Campaña de educación sobre el SIDA, 1987
(Rev. Cost. Cienc. Méd., 9 (3), 1988, 1988)
Ya en abril de 1987, la epidemia del síndrome
de inmunodeficiencia adquirida (SIDA) en Costa
Rica, aparentaba ser similar a la de los Estados
Unidos de América y otras naciones
industrializadas. Consecuentemente, ...
Public health implications of low birth weight
(1977)
The present paper interpets the significance of anthropometric data of newborns
from a typical Indian village of Guatemala and from the general population of Costa
Rica. A good correlation exists between a deficient fetal ...
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 ...
Environmental determinants and origins of malnutrition
(1977)
The characterization of protein-calorie malnutrition (PCM) more than 30
years ago led to its recognition as a scourge of underdeveloped societies (1).
For more than two decades, however, PCM was considered a medical ...
Nutrition and health in societies in transition
(In: Nutrition in Transition: Proceedings of the Western Hemisphere Nutrition Congress V, Quebec 1977, edited by Philip L. White and Nancy Selvey. (Chicago) American Medical Association, 1978, pp. 351-358, 1978-02-01)
One often hears the expression that a country or society is "in transition," but there is not a clear definition of such, nor is there an effort to quantitate or characterize the level of transition undergone by a given ...