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Surprising SES Gradients in Mortality, Health, and Biomarkers in a Latin American Population of Adults 

Dow, William H.; Rosero Bixby, Luis (Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 64B(1):105-117, 2009-02-04)
Background. To determine socioeconomic status (SES) gradients in the different dimensions of health among elderly Costa Ricans. Hypothesis: SES disparities in adult health are minimal in Costa Rican society. Methods. ...
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X-ray screening seems to reduce gastric cancer mortality by half in a community-controlled trial in Costa Rica 

Rosero Bixby, Luis; Sierra Ramos, Rafaela (British Journal of Cancer 97, p. 837 – 843, 2007-10-02)
X-ray screening of gastric cancer is broadly used in Japan, although no controlled trial has proved its effectiveness. This study evaluates the impact of an X-ray screening demonstrative intervention to reduce gastric ...
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Asegurar un mañana más saludable en Centroamérica: proteger la salud sexual y reproductiva de la juventud de hoy 

Remez, Lisa; Prada, Elena; Singh, Susheela; Rosero Bixby, Luis; Akinrinola, Bankole (New York: Guttmacher Institute, 2008)
Es urgente proteger la salud sexual y reproductiva de la juventud centroamericana de hoy. Las tasas de maternidad adolescente en El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y Nicaragua son, por mucho, las tasas más altas de toda ...
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Susceptibilidad al tétanos y rubeola de las mujeres de Costa Rica, 1984-1985 

Ramírez, Jorge A.; Rosero Bixby, Luis; Oberle, Mark W. (1988)
Se documenta por primera vez en Costa Rica, el nivel de susceptibilidad al tétanos y la rubéola en la población femenina costarricense entre los 25 y 29 años. Se encuestó a 805 de las mujeres (93%) que conformaban la ...
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Oral Contraceptives and Cervical Cancer Risk in Costa Rica: Detection Bias or Causal Association 

Irwin, Kathleen L.; Rosero Bixby, Luis; Oberle, Mark W.; Lee, Nancy C.; Whatley, Anne S.; Fortney, Judith A.; Bonhomme, Michele G. (1988-01)
To examine the relationship between cervical cancer and oral contraceptive (OC) use, we analyzed data from a population-based, case-control study in Costa Rica. Women aged 25 to 58 years in whom cervical cancer was ...
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A new look at the determinants of nonnumeric response to desired family size: the case of Costa Rica 

Riley, Ann P.; Hermalin, Albert I.; Rosero Bixby, Luis (1993)
High levels of nonresponse or inappropriate response to items are a persistent concern in survey research because those who do not answer may not be representative of the study population. Thus nonresponse introduces ...
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Infant mortality and birth rates 

Hanson, Lars Ake; Bergstrom, Staffan; Rosero Bixby, Luis (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 ...
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Costa Rica saves infants’ lives 

Rosero Bixby, Luis (1988)
Costa Rica covers an area of about 50 000 square kilometres. Approximately half of its 2.5 million inhabitants live in rural areas. The economy is based on exports of tropical products, predominantly coffee and ...
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Seroprevalence of human T-Lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) in Costa Rica 

Khabbaz, Rima F.; Hartley, Trudie M.; Oberle, Mark W.; Rosero Bixby, Luis (1990)
Infection within the human T linphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I), a virus associated with two diseases, adult T-cell leukemia lyriphornal and tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-I associated myelopathy,2 is prevalent in Panama' ...
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The exceptionally high life expectancy of Costa Rican nonagenarians 

Rosero Bixby, Luis (Demography 45(3): 673–691, 2008-08)
Robust data from a voter registry show that Costa Rican nonagenarians have an exceptionally high live expectancy. Mortality at age 90 in Costa Rica is at least 14% lower than an average of 13 high-income countries. This ...
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