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Sociocultural characteristics of the rural population in Latin America: Their influence and their relationship to health : Technical discussions
(1968)The rural population’s resistance to modern health measures is rooted in cultural notions of health and sickness that are bound up with values of an ethical, moral, and religious type. Physicians and health workers should ... -
Methods for increasing health service covere in rural areas: Final report of the technical discussions
(1968)The Technical Discussions during the XVII Meeting of the Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization were held on 6 and 7 October I967 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. They were attended by 70 persons, ... -
A community health education program
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Risk factor analysis of peri-neonatal mortality in rural Guatemala
(1994)Peri-neonatal mortality is a serious health problem in Guatemala, especially in rural areas where most deliveries occur at home and are overseen by traditional birth attendants (TBAs) who function in the role of midwives. ... -
Epidemic of Chronic Kidney Disease in Agricultural Communities in Central America. Case definitions, methodological basis and approaches for public health surveillance
(Washington, D.C, PAHO, 2017-06)In the last four decades, increasing numbers of young people, in clusters of vulnerable farming communities in several Central American countries, have developed a severe form of kidney failure of uncertain etiology ... -
Maternal and infant feeding practices in rural Bolivia
(s.d.)Published in spanish in Bol. Oficina Sanit. Panam 114(1), 1993
