Acute pesticide poisonings epidemiology in El Salvador

Journalists in El Salvador

The typical journalist in El Salvador is male, in his mid-thirties and holds a university degree in journalism or communication. Of the 250 interviewed journalists, 101 were women, making for a proportion of 40.4 percent of the overall sample. On average, journalists in El Salvador were 32.00 years old (s=9.27); half of the journalists were younger than 28 years. Journalists tend to be well edu...

Age at menopause in rural El Salvador.

other treatment. Between January 2006 and September 2008, 342 eligible women were treated withmethotrexate andmisoprostol. Between September 2008 and December 2008, 30 womenwere treated withmethotrexate alone. The 2 groups were similar in age, initial beta-hCG levels, and obstetric history. Beta-hCG level dropped by more than 15% in the first week in 245 (71.6%) women who received methotrexate ...

Epidemiology as discourse: the politics of development institutions in the Epidemiological Profile of El Salvador.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine the ways in which institutions devoted to international development influence epidemiological studies. DESIGN This article takes a descriptive epidemiological study of El Salvador, Epidemiological Profile, conducted in 1994 by the US Agency for International Development, as a case study. The methods include discourse analysis in order to uncover the ideological ba...

El Salvador and the Southeastern Frontier ofMesoamerica

Examination of a teacher from El Salvador.

On Oct 19, 1983, a medical examination was carried out on a 30-year-old man, a teacher, from El Salvador, who alleged that he had been arrested and tortured eighteen months previously. An interpreter was present and medical photographs were taken at the time of the examination.