Acute respiratory illnesses in the first 18 months of life

• Published in: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
• Main Authors: Ilse M. López Bravo, Haydeé Sepúlveda, Isabel Valdés
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 1997
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Ari
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/s1020-49891997000100003; https://doaj.org/article/05eef3e87c7948d0b48ccc8d1ba9ec38

To help assess the causes and frequency of acute respiratory illnesses (ARI) during the first 18 months of life in Chile, a cohort of 437 children born in good health between May 1991 and April 1992 was followed at an urban health clinic in northern Santiago. Information was obtained from medical ch...