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The U.S.-Mexico Border Infectious Disease Surveillance Project: Establishing Binational Border Surveillance

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2003
In 1997, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Mexican Secretariat of Health, and border health officials began the development of the Border Infectious Disease Surveillance (BIDS) project, a surveillance system for infectious diseases ...
Michelle Weinberg   +23 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Informing public policy toward binational health insurance: empirical evidence from California. [PDF]

open access: yesSalud Publica Mex, 2013
Objective. To estimate reimbursement rate differences between Mexico and US based physicians reimbursed by a binational health insurance (BHI) plan and US payers, re- spectively; and show the relationship between plan benefit designs and health care ...
Fulton BD, Galárraga O, Dow WH.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Ventanillas de Salud (VDS) and Mobile Health Units (MHU): A binational collaborative models

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
Over the years, the Mexican population in the United States has faced high prevalence of health-related inequalities and disadvantages and represents one of the most vulnerable migrant groups in the country. To help reduce the gaps in health care for the
María Gudelia Rangel Gómez   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identification of Surveillance Procedures for Diseases and Deaths Potentially Caused by Air Pollution and Possible Solutions as a Proposal for a Binational Surveillance System: A Case Study of Mexicali B.C., México-Imperial Valley, United States

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2023
In this paper, an integrative analysis is conducted for both sides of the border of Mexicali B.C. and Imperial Valley, regarding the official procedures and ways in which the collection, organization and disposal of data is carried out for the following:
Marco A. Reyna   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Associations between extreme precipitation, drinking water, and protozoan acute gastrointestinal illnesses in four North American Great Lakes cities (2009–2014)

open access: yesJournal of Water and Health, 2022
Climate change is already impacting the North American Great Lakes ecosystem and understanding the relationship between climate events and public health, such as waterborne acute gastrointestinal illnesses (AGIs), can help inform needed adaptive capacity
Ryan C. Graydon   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Using Population Mobility Patterns to Adapt COVID-19 Response Strategies in 3 East Africa Countries

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic spread between neighboring countries through land, water, and air travel. Since May 2020, ministries of health for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Uganda have sought to clarify population movement patterns to ...
Rebecca D. Merrill   +27 more
doaj   +1 more source

Binational burden of American cutaneous leishmaniasis in Oiapoque, Amapá State, Brazil, bordering French Guiana

open access: yesRevista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2019
INTRODUCTION: American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) is regarded as a public health problem in the Oiapoque basin, between Brazil and French Guiana. METHODS Data on ACL occurrence/epidemiological profile and etiology were sourced from Brazilian health
Thiago Vasconcelos-dos-Santos   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Visa type and financial strain on depressive symptoms among Filipino migrants to the United States

open access: yesJournal of Migration and Health, 2023
Migrants have been theorized to be healthier than their non-migrant counterparts; however, there is limited examination of health selection using binational data and how selection occurs, particularly for mental health outcomes.
Kazumi Tsuchiya   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health on the Brazil-Uruguay border: pacts and protagonism of local actors

open access: yesRevista Katálysis, 2018
This article analyzes the relationship between cross-border pacts and protocols in the area of health and the performance of political actors in two sets of twin cities that are on the Brazil-Uruguay border.
Helenara Silveira Fagundes   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tuberculosis Treatment Completion in a United States/Mexico Binational Context

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2017
BackgroundTuberculosis (TB) remains a salient public health issue along the U.S./Mexico border. This study seeks to identify the social and structural factors, which are associated with TB disease burden in the binational geographic region ...
Celina I. Valencia   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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