Buscar
Mostrando ítems 1-10 de 64
Socioeconomic development, health interventions and mortality decline in Costa Rica
(1991-02)
Costa Rica, whose life expectancy was 74 years by 1985, has reached a health level comparable to a developed country. The health achievements of this country are product of political and socioeconomic circumstances as well ...
Desarrollo sustentable: ¿mayor disfrute del medio ambiente y mejores condiciones de vida para las poblaciones locales? Análisis de la región Chorotega en Costa Rica, 1990–2013
(2015)
A partir de la década de 1990 en el país se consolida el modelo
de Desarrollo Sustentable, por lo que se construyó una sustanciosa
legislación dirigida a regular el impacto de las actividades
productivas, de modo que ...
Medio ambiente y desarrollo: efectos y resultados de las actividades productivas y la legislación ambiental sobre la naturaleza y las condiciones de vida de la población, en la región Chorotega de Costa Rica. 1990-2015
(2016)
El presente artículo muestra los principales efectos y resultados de la operación de las principales actividades productivas y la vigencia de legislación ambiental sobre el medio ambiente y las condiciones de vida de la ...
Dengue in Costa Rica: the gap in local scientific research
(2006)
Globalization has affected the reemergence of infectious diseases, with increased human travel and trade facilitating the introduction of diseases into new areas and the resurgence of diseases that had been eliminated in ...
Some physical and socio-economic aspects of climate change in Central America
(Progress in Physical Geography: pp. 1-21, 2012-06)
The relative magnitude of precipitation and temperature changes obtained from 21st-century climate change projections from general circulation models (GCMs) is compared to the changes in a selection of socioeconomic ...
Regional modeling of climate change impacts on smallholder agriculture and ecosystems in Central America
(2016)
Climate change will have serious repercussions for agriculture, ecosystems, and farmer livelihoods in Central America. Smallholder farmers are particularly vulnerable due to their reliance on agriculture and ecosystem ...
Envenenamientos por mordeduras de serpientes en América Latina y el Caribe: Una visión integral de carácter regional
(2011-01)
Se analiza la situación de los envenenamientos por
mordeduras de serpiente en América Latina y el Caribe, los
cuales representan un importante problema de Salud Pública
en la región. Esta patología afecta, fundamentalmente, ...
Infection, malnutrition and growth
(1990)
The concomitant appearance of famine and pestilence has been documented in classical religious texts since the beginning of written history. But it was not until recently that the inter-relationships between infection and ...
A review of Bioinformatics training applied to research in Molecular Medicine, Agriculture and Biodiversity in Costa Rica and Central America
(Briefings in Bioinformatics, 14(5): 661-670, 2013-04-13)
Today, Bioinformatics has become a scientific discipline with great relevance for the Molecular Biosciences and for the Omics sciences in general. Although developed countries have progressed with large strides in ...