Editorial: Emergent Public Health Issues in the US–Mexico Border Region
نویسندگان
چکیده
The public health literature in recent years has focused extensively on documenting and quantifying health disparities in the US. Race, ethnicity, and poverty are frequently considered the greatest predictors of inequality in health, and these factors are often inextricably tied to one another. Many studies have examined health disparities among those who live in relatively small geographical areas, such as inner cities, that are inhabited by minorities and/or the poor (1). However, in the case of the US–Mexico border region, a careful examination of data on health indicators in the 10 Border States, 4 in the US and the 6 along the northern border of Mexico, reveals both great disparities and strong similarities.
منابع مشابه
Reproductive Health Surveillance in the US-Mexico Border Region: Beyond the Border (and Into the Future)
This issue of Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) celebrates the completion of a highly innovative and bold reproductive health surveillance initiative: the Brownsville-Matamoros Sister City Project for Women’s Health (BMSCP). This project, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and made possible through binational institutional collaboration, met the challenge of obtain...
متن کاملU.S.Mexico cross-border workforce training needs:survey implementation
BACKGROUND Since the tragic events experienced on September 11, 2001, and other recent events such as the hurricane devastation in the southeastern parts of the country and the emergent H1N1 season, the need for a competent public health workforce has become vitally important for securing and protecting the greater population. OBJECTIVE The primary objective of the study was to assess the tra...
متن کاملEnvironmental health and hazardous waste issues related to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Environmental health and environmental quality issues along the U.S.-Mexico border have been of concern for several years. The enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the presence of the maquiladoras (foreign-owned industries using imported raw materials) have intensified those concerns recently. Efforts to assess these issues are complicated by the fact that many of the issues...
متن کاملThe Spillover of US Immigration Policy on Citizens and Permanent Residents of Mexican Descent: How Internalizing “Illegality” Impacts Public Health in the Borderlands
BACKGROUND The militarization of the US-Mexico border region exacerbates the process of "Othering" Latino immigrants - as "illegal aliens." The internalization of "illegality" can manifest as a sense of "undeservingness" of legal protection in the population and be detrimental on a biopsychological level. OBJECTIVE We explore the impacts of "illegality" among a population of US citizen and pe...
متن کاملThe relationship between violence in Northern Mexico and potentially avoidable hospitalizations in the USA-Mexico border region.
BACKGROUND Substantial proportions of US residents in the USA-Mexico border region cross into Mexico for health care; increases in violence in northern Mexico may have affected this access. We quantified associations between violence in Mexico and decreases in access to care for border county residents. We also examined associations between border county residence and access. METHODS We used ...
متن کامل