This study tests whether disease predicts weight loss among middle-aged and older adults who participate in multiple waves of longitudinal, population based surveys. There are two major motivations for this research. First, ...

We investigate the heterogeneity across countries and time in the relationship between mother’s fertility and children’s educational attainment—the quantity-quality (Q-Q) trade-off—by using census data from 17 countries ...

El cáncer de cuello uterino (cáncer de cérvix) y el cáncer de mama son las principales causas de morbilidad y mortalidad femenina por cáncer en Costa Rica. Se evaluaron los métodos de detección de estos dos tipos de cáncer ...

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 ...

Hypertension is one of the major risk factors for the main cause of death in adult populations world wide: cardio- vascular diseases (including ischemic heart disease and stroke) [1]. It is also one of the most frequent ...

Costa Rica is a small country, geographically situated in the Central American isthmus, with 2.2 million inhabitants. Although its exports are mainly of an agricultural nature, the country has reached a level of welfare ...

ACKGROUND Some existing estimates suggest, controversially, that life expectancy at age 60 (LE60) of Latin American males is exceptionally high. Knowledge of adult mortality in Latin America is often based ...

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 birth ...

This chapter examines the role played by diffusion through social interaction in the Costa Rican fertility transition. The literature about the causes of fertility transition has traditionally focused on the socio-economic ...

Obesity is a recognized risk factor for the development of cardiovascular diseases and for allcause mortality among ethnic groups in the United States.1,2 Also among Latin Americans, that is, Hispanics living in their ...