Environmental health
(Salud ambiental)

On this page:

• Tools (Herramientas)
• Funding (Financiamiento)
• Publications (Publicaciones)
• Journals (Revistas)
• Organizations (Organismos)

Tools
(Herramientas)

• Tox Town: US-Mexico Border
  Information on environmental health issues on the U.S.-Mexico border. Resources to help the general public work to reduce health risks caused by the environment.
  Sponsoring organization: National Library of Medicine
• Border 2012
  Information on the Border 2012 program, a 10-year, binational, results-oriented environmental program for the U.S.- Mexico border region.
  Sponsoring organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Borderland Information Center
  A central clearinghouse and referral center for information about the Texas/Mexico border region. BIC is a section of the Texas Water Development Boards' Texas Natural Resources Information System Division and has access to all of its geospatial data and mapping products.
  Sponsoring organization: Texas Natural Resources Information System
• U.S. - Mexican Border Environmental Information Web (Border EcoWeb)
  Provides access to data on environmental issues along the U.S. - Mexico Border. It can also be accessed in Spanish.
  Sponsoring organization: Environmental Protection Agency
• Bordering New Mexico
  Provides resources about environmental issues along the New Mexico - Mexico border region. Information can be accessed in Spanish.
  Sponsoring organization: New Mexico Environment Department
• U.S. - Mexico Border 2012 Environmental Health Workgroup: Projects and Publications
  A compilation of border environmental health publications and projects.
  Sponsoring organization: Environmental Protection Agency
• United States - Mexico Border Virtual Health Library
  Provides a database of publications and other information sources related to the U.S. - Mexico border region.
  Sponsoring organization: Pan American Health Organization
• Transboundary Resource Inventory Program (TRIP)
  A regionally-based binational effort to have the shared natural resources of the United States-Mexico border region mapped, measured, and made available to interested information consumers.
  Sponsoring organization: Borderland Information Center
• Fronterizando Nuevo Mexico
  Sponsoring organization: New Mexico Environment Department

Funding
(Financiamiento)

• Colonia Area Planning Fund
  Provides assistance for the completion of planning activities that prepare colonia areas for water, sewer and housing improvements.
      Geographic Coverage: Texas
      Application Deadline: Mar 27, 2011
      Sponsor: Texas Office of Rural Community Affairs
• Healthy Homes Demonstration Program
  Develops, demonstrates, and promotes cost-effective, preventive measures to correct multiple safety and health hazards in the home environment that produce serious diseases and injuries in children of low income.
      Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
      Application Deadline: Nov 24, 2009
      Sponsor: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Publications
(Publicaciones)

• Blurred Borders: Transboundary Impacts and Solutions in the San Diego-Tijuana Region
  Highlights the similarities, the inter-connections and the challenges that San Diego and Tijuana share, addressing the wide range of community based issues in the largest binational metropolitan area in North America.
  Sponsoring organization: International Community Foundation
  Date: 03 / 2004
  Format: HTML
  
• California Farm Labor Force Overview and Trends from the National Agricultural Workers Survey
  A report to help the EPA and other Federal and State agencies and nonprofit organizations in their efforts to protect the health of farmworkers.
  Sponsoring organization: California Office of Binational Border Health
  Date: 06 / 2005
  Format: PDF
  
• CDBG Works for Rural Communities
  A special issue that focuses on the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG). State, county, and local community development practitioners share their stories of how the CDBG program has worked for their communities.
  Sponsoring organization: Housing Assistance Council
  Journal citation: Rural Voices Volume: 11 Issue: 01 Date: 2006
  Format: PDF
  
• Healthy Border 2010: An Agenda for Improving Health on the United States - Mexico Border
  Provides an overview of a specific set of health indicators on the U.S. - Mexico border.
  Sponsoring organization: United States - Mexico Border Health Commission
  Date: 10 / 2003
  Format: PDF
  
• Laying the Groundwork for Success: An Interview with Arturo Ramirez, Center for Economic Opportunity
  The Center for Economic Opportunity's executive director, Arturo Ramirez, describes how the Military Highway Water Supply Corporation improved infrastructure in the colonias.
  Sponsoring organization: Housing Assistance Council
  Journal citation: Volume: 10 Issue: 4 Pages: 5 - 7
  Date: 2006
  Format: PDF
  
• Survey of Health and Environmental Conditions in Texas Border Counties and Colonias: Executive Summary
  A comprehensive description of health and environmental conditions facing Texas families living near the border with Mexico.
  Sponsoring organization: Texas Office of Border Health
  Date: 06 / 2000
  Format: PDF
  
• Tackling Environmental Health Problems on the U.S.- Mexico Border: A Case Study
  Describes the challenges of activists and residents in Douglas, Arizona, have wrestled with as a result of their efforts to assess the occurrence of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in their community, the lessons they've learned, and the directions their efforts are heading.
  Author(s): A. Caroline Hotaling
  Sponsoring organization: International Relations Center
  Date: 03 / 1999
  Format: HTML
  
• The Toxic Border
  Discusses the prevalence of anencephaly amongst children living along the U.S.-Mexico border and the environmental factors contributing to this crisis.
  Author(s): Dan Oko
  Date: 11 / 2001
  Format: HTML
  

Journals
(Revistas)

• Border Voices
  Newsletter of the Border Epidemiology & Environmental Health Center
  Sponsoring organization: Border Epidemiology and Environmental Health Center
• Environmental Health Perspectives (EPH)
  A monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news on the impact of the environment on human health.
  Sponsoring organization: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Organizations
(Organismos)

• Arizona Office of Border Health
  Coordinates and integrates public health program efforts to identify, monitor, control and prevent adverse health events in border communities. The Office also strengthens cross-border public health collaboration with Sonora, Mexico.
• Border Epidemiology and Environmental Health Center
  A mechanism to establish, organize and develop technical health activities that enhance the quality of life of the people living on the border region of United States and Mexico, focused on New Mexico-Chihuahua-West Texas border
• Borderland Information Center
  A central clearinghouse and referral center for information about the Texas/Mexico border region. BIC is a section of the Texas Water Development Boards' Texas Natural Resources Information System Division and has access to all of its geospatial data and mapping products.
• California Endowment Agricultural Worker Health Initiative
  Works to achieve optimal health for agricultural workers, their families and their communities.
• California-Baja California Border Environmental Program
  A collaborative effort that includes the California Environmental Protection Agency, other California State Agencies, Baja California, and Tribal Nations located along the border region.
• Environmental Health Coalition
  Dedicated to achieving environmental and social justice by empowering communities to make social change. We organize and advocate to protect public health and the environment threatened by toxic pollution. EHC supports broad efforts that create a just society which foster a healthy and sustainable quality of life. Information available in Spanish
• Humane Borders
  An organization that offers humanitarian assistance to those in need through more than 70 emergency water stations on and near the U.S.- Mexican border.
• Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias
  Provides San Diego State University with a forum for the investigation, discussion, and dissemination of information about the United States-Mexican border region. The Institute has undertaken multidisciplinary applied research projects on important regional concerns including transborder environmental issues, policy perspectives of the California-Mexico relationship, quality of life, and sustainable development.
• Instituto Nacional del Cáncer
  El Instituto Nacional del Cáncer proporciona un programa nacional de investigación sobre las causas, la prevención, la detección, el diagnóstico, el tratamiento, la rehabilitación y el control del cáncer.
• International Boundary and Water Commission
  Mission is to provide sensitive, timely, and fiscally responsible boundary water and environmentally services along the Mexican and United States border region.
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
  The mission of the NIEHS is to reduce the burden of human illness and disability by understanding how the environment influences the development and progression of human disease. To have the greatest impact on preventing disease and improving human health, the NIEHS focuses on basic science, disease-oriented research, global environmental health, and multidisciplinary training for researchers.
• Oficina de Salud Fronteriza del Departamento de Servicios de Salud de Texas
  
• Paso del Norte Health Foundation
  The main focus of PdNHF is to help those within the community who are most in need. To envision the region where all people, regardless of socio-economic status, have the knowledge, resources, and environment they need to live healthy lives.
• Programa Ambiental México-Estados Unidos Frontera 2012
  
• Protección Ambiental, Agencia para la
  La Agencia para la Protección Ambiental protege la salud de los humanos, el medio ambiente y los recursos naturales. Previene y controla la contaminación del aire y agua a través del desarrollo de estándares para la calidad del aire y las emisiones de automóviles, programas para asegurar la limpieza del agua e información sobre la salud ambiental.
• Southern Area Health Education Center & Border Health Education Training Center
  Serves as a culturally competent regional resource and training center for youth, the health workforce, and communities of New Mexico. Also provides resources to help communities increase environmental safety and for individuals to improve their home environments.
• Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center
  An interdisciplinary research center that is actively investigating the health effects of environmental agents and serving as a resource for the community.
• Texas Office of Border Health
  Promotes and protects the health of border residents by reducing community and environmental health hazards along the Texas-Mexico border, in collaboration with communities and U.S. and Mexican local, state, and federal entities.
• U.S. - Mexico Binational Center for Environmental Studies and Toxicology
  Conducts research, training, and helps develop policy on environmental and toxicology issues affecting the U.S. - Mexico border region.
• U.S. - Mexico Border Environmental Program: Border 2012
  A 10-year, binational, results-oriented environmental program for the U.S.-Mexico border region. Information in Spanish.
• U.S. - Mexico Border Health Association
  Promotes the improvement of the health and living conditions of the people of the United State-Mexico Border. Brings together persons and institutions actively engaged or interested in binational health activities between the United States of America and the United Mexican States.