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The decline in adult mortality in Costa Rica
(1996)
The purpose is to describe the mortality transition at adult ages, to identify its key components, and to make inferences about its likely determinants. The chapter has five sections: Socio-economic and public-health ...
The decline in adult mortality in Costa Rica
(1996)
The purpose is to describe the mortality transition at adult ages, to identify its key components, and to make inferences about its likely determinants. The chapter has five sections: Socio-economic and public-health ...
Social inequalities in neonatal mortality and living condition
(Brasil, 2013)
Objective: To evaluate the association between the spatial distribution of neonatal mortality and living conditions, and to analyze trends in the social inequalities, related to this mortality, in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, ...
Trends and geographic pattern of stomach cancer mortality in Peru
(Elsevier, 2018)
Background: Stomach cancer mortality rates in South America are among the highest in the world. In Peru, stomach cancer has the highest absolute number of cancer deaths in both sexes combined. We estimated mortality rates ...
Adult mortality decline in Costa Rica
(1996)
Costa Rica is, along with Cuba, the country with the best health indicators in Latin America. Life expectancy at birth in Costa Rica was 77.9 years for women and 72.7 years for men in 1990, figures which are comparable ...
The decline of Austrocedrus chilensis forests in Patagonia, Argentina: soil features as predisposing factors
(Elsevier, 2004-01-06)
The forests of Austrocedrus chilensis in southern Argentina suffer mortality from “mal del ciprés”, whose causes remain unknown. The purpose of this work was to establish the relation of soil features with the occurrence ...
Pollinator declines and the stability of plant–pollinator networks
(Wiley, 2020-04)
Population declines of pollinators constitute a major concern for the fate of biodiversity and associated ecosystem services in a context of global change. Massive declines of pollinator populations driven by habitat loss, ...