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Cholera El Tor in Latin America, 1991-1993
(1994)
Cholera El Tor appeared in Peru in 1991 and spread rapidly to nearly all neighboring countries. The disease evolved more explosively than anything recorded since the beginning of the 7th pandemic in Sulawesi (the Celebes) ...
Stability, distribution and use of antivenoms for snakebite envenomation in Latin America: Report of a workshop
(2009-05)
The issues of antivenom stability and distribution, and the training of health staff in the correct use of antivenoms in Latin America were discussed in a workshop held at Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Costa Rica, in September ...
Reducing the impact of snakebite envenoming in Latin America and the Caribbean: achievements and challenges ahead
(2014-09-01)
Snakebite envenoming constitutes an important public health problem in Latin America and some countries of
the Caribbean. The advances and pending tasks in the study and control of this neglected tropical disease in ...
Metadata Usage Tendencies in Latin American Electronic Journals
(ELPUB2009. Rethinking Electronic Publishing: Innovation in Communication Paradigms and Technologies - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Electronic Publishing. Milan, Italy. June 10-12, 2009-06)
The present study investigates the extent to which metadata tags are used in Latin American electronic journals, and whether these journals in fact provide basic information
(abstracts, keywords, etc.) that could be tagged ...
The need for an integrated approach in confronting snakebite envenoming in Latin America: the relevance of endogenous scientific and technological research
(2016)
Snakebite envenomings constitute a serious public health problem on a global level, especially in Africa,
Asia and Latin America. In our Latin American region, it is estimated that at least 70,000 snakebite
cases occur ...
Is Latin America starting to retreat from early and universal childbearing?
(2009-02-20)
The 2000 censuses show that the proportion of women below age 30 who are mothers has dropped substantially in most Latin America countries, suggesting that the social imperative of early motherhood, which has long prevailed ...
Social Capital, Urban Settings and Demographic Behavior in Latin America
(2006)
Basándose en muestras probabilísticas
de 12.000 adultos de ocho pa
íses latinoamericanos, se estudian
dos dimensiones del capital social
–(1) participación comunitaria y (2) confianza en los vecinos– y su
relación ...
Algunos distractores sobre el cambio climático en la región tropical americana
(2016)
¿Por que todava existen concursos literarios que tienen por objetivos consolidar el entendimiento y conocimiento del fenomeno? Las respuestas se plantean en tres aspectos,
llamados aqu \distractores": comprender el fenomeno ...
The Best Laid Schemes ... Gang Aft A-gley: Judicial Reform in Latin America – Evidence from Costa Rica
(2004-08-05)
Starting in the 1980s, and accelerating through the 1990s, international financial institutions (IFIs), non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and development agencies funnelled considerable resources into judicial reform ...
AIDS and HIV infection in Costa Rica – a country in transition
(1988)
Costa Rica, located in the Central American
Isthmus about 10' north of the Equator, is
bordered by Nicaragua and the Caribbean
Sea in the north and east, Panama in the
east, and the Pacific Ocean in the south and
west. ...