The United States-Mexico Border: A Politico-Economic Profile
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Tuberculosis transmission across the United States-Mexico border.
In this era of increasing drug resistance among infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB), the complex population dynamics of border areas must be monitored more extensively. TB remains a major public health threat; its antimicrobial treatment is long; and the only vaccine licensed in the world, live-attenuated Mycobacterium bovis Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), exhibits varying efficacy. In...
متن کاملTuberculosis along the United States-Mexico border, 1993-2001.
OBJECTIVES Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading public health problem and a recognized priority for the federal Governments of both Mexico and the United States of America. The objectives of this research, primarily for the four states in the United States that are along the border with Mexico, were to: (1) describe the epidemiological situation of TB, (2) identify TB risk factors, and (3) discuss tu...
متن کاملGlobalization and health at the United States-Mexico border.
OBJECTIVES We studied the impact of globalization on the making of health policy. Globalization is understood as economic interdependence among nations. The North American Free Trade Agreement is used as a marker to assess the effects of economic interdependence on binational health cooperation along the United States-Mexico border. METHODS We observed participants and conducted in-depth inte...
متن کاملDisparities in undiagnosed diabetes among United States-Mexico border populations.
OBJECTIVE To compare the prevalence of undiagnosed diabetes among populations with diabetes living on the United States (U.S.)-Mexico border, examine explanations for differences between groups, and investigate differences in metabolic outcomes by diagnosis status. METHODS Data come from the U.S.-Mexico Border Diabetes Prevention and Control Project survey (2001-2002), which used a stratified...
متن کاملUnited States-Mexico cross-border health insurance initiatives: Salud Migrante and Medicare in Mexico.
While U.S. health care reform will most likely reduce the overall number of uninsured Mexican-Americans, it does not address challenges related to health care coverage for undocumented Mexican immigrants, who will remain uninsured under the measures of the reform; documented low-income Mexican immigrants who have not met the five-year waiting period required for Medicaid benefits; or the growin...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Hispanic American Historical Review
سال: 1978
ISSN: 0018-2168,1527-1900
DOI: 10.1215/00182168-58.2.351