[PDF] Top 20 Biotechnology: Its potential for health in Latin America and the Caribbean

... Drug production in rural areas requires a classical tech- nology entirely independent of rDNA and monoclonal antibodies but of great economic and social importance to the rur[r] ... See full document

... Judicious application of techniques for gene-splicing, production of monoclonal antibodies, protein engineering, and so forth to solve problems in the fields of healt[r] ... See full document

... reported in an earlier study conducted in Uruguay ...for the human rights of the patient necessi- tates obtaining informed consent for all medical interventions, especially when they involve ... See full document

... is the heavy concentration of researchers—and their re- sulting publications—in a small number of coun- ...tries. And while clinical research is distributed more uniformly across Latin ... See full document

... In general, it appears that the various groups of PAHO publications dealt with in this study are cited with considerable fre- quency by the biomedical journals o[r] ... See full document

... In Latin America, anti-American sentiment has a long pedigree, with its fi rst manifestations dating back to the days of the Monroe Doctrine (1823), when several Latin ... See full document

... manage the complex health problems related to old age, through such strategies as strengthening the capacity of the pri- mary health care level to promote and protect the ... See full document

... identify in the literature the strategies used by the nurses in the prevention of postpartum ...out in the databases of the Virtual Health Library of ... See full document

... indexed in the Literature on the Health Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean (LILACS) database, making informa- tion contained in ... See full document

... This effort culminated in an international conference on Disaster Mitigation in Health Facilities in February 1996, convened by the Government of Mexico, the Pan Am[r] ... See full document

... state in the northeast of Brazil, differ greatly from those for Santos, a major port city in the southeast of ...workers in Santos, a ...diagnosis and treat- ment of syphilis, ... See full document

... The disease has a major impact on public health and the economy in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean area. The lack of diagnostic laboratories,[r] ... See full document

... analyze the influences of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on the development of the Brazilian Competition ...verified ... See full document

... La mortalidad en adolescentes en un periodo de 18 años en Uruguay no ha mostrado grandes va- riaciones y es consistentemente mayor en varones. Los AVP tanto en Uruguay como en todos los países de América Latina y el ... See full document

... to the early stages of adoles- cence, but it is common for teenagers not to be contemplated by either paediatric or adult care, nor to have care services specific to their ...so in primary care, where it ... See full document

... included in the polish- ing, and in Argentina and Panama the analysis could not be done by urban/ rural ...were in gen- eral larger in urban than in rural ... See full document

... Public Health 6(5), 1999 345 Se realizó una encuesta sobre las necesidades y los recursos disponibles para contro- lar la epilepsia en los países de América Latina y el ... See full document

... Veterinary public health has traveled a long road in Latin America and the Caribbean, having been transformed from a subject on the periphery of veterinary medici[r] ... See full document

... of the number of mental health publications in ISI indexed journals among the six leading LAC countries between two periods (from 1996 to 2000 and from 2001 to 2005) revealed the ... See full document

... But the global setting has changed much in these past 30 ...Interdependence and asymmetry among nations remains one expression of globalization, multidimensionally impacting on the entire ... See full document