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Health promotion and disease prevention
(Promoción de la salud y prevención de enfermedades)

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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
  • National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC)
    An information portal of diabetes publications of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).
    Sponsoring organization: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
  • Binational Directory of HIV/AIDS Services
    Provides information on available HIV/AIDS services to Migrant workers that travel throughout the United States.
    Sponsoring organization: Farmworker Justice Fund, Inc.
  • Frontera NorteSur
    Provides on-line news coverage and analysis of events taking place in the US-Mexico border region.
    Sponsoring organization: New Mexico State University
  • U.S. - Mexico Border Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center
    A multi-state evaluation of demonstration projects on various health issues on the border including HIV/AIDS. Data is available on the website.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • 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
  • Health Initiative of the Americas
    Coordinates and optimizes the availability of health resources for Mexican immigrants and their families through bilateral training, research, and health promotion activities. Facilitates the development of complementary and coordinated projects involving key stakeholders in Mexico and the United States. Formerly know as the California-Mexico Health Initiative.
    Sponsoring organization: University of California, Office of the President
  • The Burden of Chronic Diseases and Their Risk Factors
    Lists chronic diseases, risk factors, and preventive services by State.
    Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • GobiernoUSA.gov
    GobiernoUSA.gov es el portal oficial en español del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos y ofrece información oficial y actualizada sobre programas y servicios gubernamentales a nivel federal, estatal y local acerca de una variedad de temas, incluyendo inmigración, beneficios federales, empleo, negocios, vivienda, educación, salud, nutrición y seguridad y mucho más.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. General Services Administration
  • Healthfinder (en Español)
    Healthfinder es un servicio del Departmento de la Salud y Humanos de los Estados Unidos
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • MedlinePlus: Enfermedades del corazón: Prevención
    Sponsoring organization: National Library of Medicine
  • Knowledge Path: Spanish-Language Health Resources
    A guide of high-quality Spanish-language health resources for health professionals and consumers. The collection covers a wide range of health topics, each with a section that focuses on topics of interest to families and professionals in the maternal and child health (MCH) community.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health
  • L.A. Care Health Plan: Health Information, Spanish
    A list of health information documents in Spanish from the L.A. Care Health Plan's web repository of translated materials.
    Sponsoring organization: California Endowment
  • CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN)
    A service of the CDC National Center for HIV, STD, TB Prevention. Provides an extensive collection of information and resources on HIV, STD and TB prevention.
    Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Consumer Health Information for You and Your Family
    Provides information on various health topics for consumers including medicines, vaccines, medical devices and procedures, prevention, food and nutrition, and animal health. Includes publications in Spanish.
    Sponsoring organization: Food and Drug Administration
  • Su Familia National Hispanic Family Health Helpline
    Provides Hispanic consumers free reliable and confidential health information in Spanish and English and helps navigate callers through the health system. Nationwide resources and local referral services are provided depending on the need of the caller.
    Sponsoring organization: National Alliance for Hispanic Health

Success Stories
(Historias de éxito)

  • Wellness Partnership for a Healthy McKinley County
    This project involved an innovative education program that used high school students to mentor elementary students in diabetes prevention techniques with the goal to improve the wellness of the community by developing healthy living skills in the 10-to 12-year-old population, and specifically to incorporate diabetes awareness activities into this target group's school day.

Funding
(Financiamiento)

  • Alliance Healthcare Foundation Grants
    Alliance Healthcare Foundation focuses on improving the healthcare delivery system for the medically under-served in San Diego County.
        Geographic Coverage: San Diego County California
        Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
  • American Recovery Reinvestment Act of 2009 Communities Putting Prevention to Work
    Funding to reduce risk factors, prevent/delay chronic disease, promote wellness in children and adults, and provide positive, sustainable health change in communities.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Letter of Intent (Optional): Nov 6, 2009
        Application Deadline: Dec 1, 2009
        Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • AmeriCorps State and National Grants
    Funding is available to support multi-state programs addressing critical community needs through service of professionals, paraprofessionals, and pre-professionals in communities with shortages of these professionals.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Jan 26, 2010
        Sponsor: Corporation for National and Community Service: For Faith-Based and Other Community Organizations
  • Arizona Community Foundation Health & Well-Being Grants
    Grants to communities to support health care & wellness promotion, mental health and domestic violence prevention.
        Geographic Coverage: Arizona
        Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
  • California Endowment Grant Programs
    Grants to expand access to affordable, quality health care for the underserved and to improve the health status of all Californians.
        Geographic Coverage: California
        Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
        Sponsor: California Endowment
  • CIGNA Foundation Grants
    Targeted grants in five areas: Health of Women, Children & Families, Obesity Awareness & Prevention, Patient/Doctor Communications & Health Literacy, Disparities in Health Care, and Connection Between a Healthy Mind & Body.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
        Sponsor: CIGNA Foundation
  • El Paso Community Foundation Grants
    Grant priorities are Health and Disabilities, Human Services (basic human needs) and Public Benefit.
        Geographic Coverage: West Texas, southern New Mexico and northern Chihuahua, Mexico.
        Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
  • William Randolph Hearst Foundations Health Grants
    Provides funding to improve access to quality health care for underserved populations in rural and urban areas.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis

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
  • Border Health Status Report 2002-2003
    Examines key health status indicators to provide insight into the significant factors influencing the overall health status of the California/Mexico border region.
    Sponsoring organization: California Office of Binational Border Health
    Format: PDF
  • Border Health Strategic Initiative: Overview and Introduction to a Community-based Model for Diabetes Prevention and Control
    Describes an effort to develop and implement a comprehensive, community-based approach to diabetes prevention and control in selected communities along the U.S.-Mexico border.
    Author(s): Stuart J. Cohen
    Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Journal citation: Preventing Chronic Disease Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Date: 01 / 2005
    Format: HTML
  • Border Models of Excellence Compendium
    Recognizes the community-based health programs and initiatives along the United States-Mexico border that have made great strides in improving the health and well-being of communities along either side of the 2000 mile border.
    Sponsoring organization: United States - Mexico Border Health Commission
    Date: 2003
    Format: PDF
  • The Border that Divides and Unites: Addressing Border Health in California
    Report on the organizational and system-wide needs in border health in California identified from a six month study. The study found that agencies, both public and private, advocate a particular approach to health in the border region. Due to distinctive demographic, ecological, social and cultural factors in the border region, a set of special health indicators has emerged that require a binational approach.
    Sponsoring organization: California State University: San Marcos
    Date: 10 / 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Cultural Competence in the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity: Latino Americans
    Discusses weight management among Latino Americans.
    Author(s): John P. Foreyt
    Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Permanente
    Journal citation: Permanente Journal Volume: 7 Issue: 2 Date: 2003
    Format: HTML
  • Developing and Adapting a Family-based Diabetes Program at the U.S.-Mexico Border
    The University of Arizona and two community health agencies on the Arizona border, Campesinos Sin Fronteras and Mariposa Community Health Center, collaborated to design, pilot and assess the feasibility of a lay health-outreach worker (promotora) to delivered diabetes education program for families. La Diabetes y La Unión Familiar was developed to build family support for patients with diabetes and to teach primary prevention behaviors to family members.
    Author(s): Nicolette I. Teufel-Shone, Rebecca Drummond, Ulrike Rawiel
    Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Journal citation: Preventing Chronic Disease Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Date: 01 / 2005
    Format: HTML
  • The Health of the California Region Bordering Mexico
    Discusses the indicators from the Healthy Border 2010 program along the California border region.
    Author(s): Alvaro Garza, Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz, India J. Ornelas
    Sponsoring organization: Springerlink
    Journal citation: Journal of Immigrant Health Volume: 15 Issue: 29 Pages: 137-144
    Date: 04 / 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Innovative Approaches to HIV Outreach along the U.S./Mexico Border
    Discusses the various outreach efforts of the Border Health Initiative to raise awareness about HIV, make HIV testing more accessible, and bring people living with HIV into care.
    Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
    Date: 12 / 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Life-Saving Message for Hispanic/Latino Communities
    Latino-Americans are the least likely of five racial/ethnic groups to have a regular source of health care.
    Journal citation: California - Rural Health Advocate Volume: 2 Issue: 8 Date: 04 / 2003
    Format: HTML
  • Mexico-U.S. Migration: Health Issues
    Presents a general overview of the conditions faced by Mexican residents in the United States concerning their health care.
    Sponsoring organization: University of California, Office of the President
    Date: 2005
    Format: PDF
  • Outreach Boosts Disease Prevention at U.S./Mexico Border
    A new study finds personal contact by community health outreach workers increased Mexican-American women's adherence to annual preventive medical exams by 35 percent.
    Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Date: 06 / 2004
    Format: HTML
  • Promoting TB Control Along the U.S. - Mexico Border: A Binational Training Project
    Reports on the binational project funded by the Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center to develop, implement and evaluate tuberculosis (TB) training and education in the 10-state United States-Mexico border region.
    Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Date: 04 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • Public Health and Information Technology at the United States-Mexico Border: Examples Show Potential
    Examines the use of health information technology (HIT) in public health programs at the United States-Mexico border, with an emphasis on frontier and rural health. Includes examples of successful projects addressing tuberculosis, immunizations, and diabetes.
    Sponsoring organization: Office of Rural Health Policy
    Date: 02 / 2007
    Format: HTML
  • School Program Reduces Risk of Obesity, Disease in Border Community
    Discusses the impact of a school program in El Paso, Texas on obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
    Sponsoring organization: Center for the Advancement of Health
    Date: 07 / 2002
    Format: HTML
  • Southwest Border KIDS COUNT Pocket Guide: A Snapshot of Children Living on the Southwest Border
    Presents the characteristics of the border population state-by-state and county-by-county with a focus on the children. Includes information on: Population and demographic characteristics, Health, Parental employment, Education, Language fluency, Foreign-born status and time of arrival, and Poverty rates.
    Sponsoring organization: Annie E. Casey Foundation
    Date: 2005
    Format: PDF
  • Toward Prevention and Control of Type 2 Diabetes: Challenges at the U.S.-Mexico Border and Beyond
    Defines Type 2 diabetes and its prevalence among the U.S.-Mexico border population.
    Author(s): Barbara A. Bowman, Frank Vinicor
    Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Journal citation: Preventing Chronic Disease Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Date: 01 / 2005
    Format: HTML
  • Use of Preventive Services Among Hispanic Sub-Groups: Does One Size Fit All?
    Provides key facts on preventive health services provided to rural Hispanics.
    Sponsoring organization: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Date: 2007
    Format: PDF
  • Using Community Indicators to Assess Nutrition in Arizona-Mexico Border Communities
    Community indicators are used to measure and monitor factors that affect the well-being of a community or region. They can be used to assess nutrition. Evaluating nutrition in communities along the Arizona-Mexico border is important because nutrition is related to an individual's risk of overweight or obesity; obesity is a risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes.
    Author(s): Jacob Abarca, Sulabha Ramachandran
    Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Journal citation: Preventing Chronic Disease Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Date: 01 / 2005
    Format: HTML

Journals
(Revistas)

  • Border Voices
    Newsletter of the Border Epidemiology & Environmental Health Center
    Sponsoring organization: Border Epidemiology and Environmental Health Center
  • Chihuahua-New Mexico-Texas Border Health Bulletin
    Reports on the health of the New Mexico, Chihuahua, and West Texas border population and other border regions.
    Sponsoring organization: Border Epidemiology and Environmental Health Center
  • Frontiers In Health/Fronteras en la salud
    Newsletter of the Southwest Center for Community Health Promotion, that works primarily along the U.S. - Mexico border for the underserved, multi-ethnic communities living there.
    Sponsoring organization: Canyon Ranch Center for Prevention and Health Promotion
  • MCH Alert
    Provides timely reference to research, findings, policy developments, recently released publications, new programs, and initiatives affecting the maternal and child health (MCH) community. This is a free, weekly electronic newsletter.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health
  • Vision New Mexico
    Published by the Border Health Council and the New Mexico Outreach Office of the U.S. - Mexico Border. Health Commission.
    Sponsoring organization: Border Epidemiology and Environmental Health Center

Organizations
(Organismos)

  • American Diabetes Association/Asociación Americana de Diabetes
    La misión de la organización es prevenir y tratar la diabetes y mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas afectadas por la diabetes.
  • American Heart Association
    Works to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke. Information available in Spanish.
  • American Heart Association (en español)
    Trabaja para reducir la discapacidad y la muerte por enfermedades cardiovasculares y derrames cerebrales.
  • Arizona Rural Health Office
    Promotes the health of rural and medically underserved individuals, families, and communities through service, education, and research.
  • 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
  • Border Health Education Network
    A San Diego Border Health Education Training Center with the objectives to create a cross-border affiliation of healthcare professionals. Available in Spanish.
  • California Endowment
    Mission is to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians.
  • California Office of Binational Border Health
    Mission is to protect and improve the health of California communities affected by border or binational conditions and activities through facilitating cooperation between California and Mexico health officials and health professionals. Available in Spanish.
  • Camino de Vida Center for HIV Services
    Provides comprehensive care to persons impacted by HIV/AIDS and to improving the health and awareness of the community through HIV/AIDS prevention.
  • Canyon Ranch Center for Prevention and Health Promotion
    A chronic disease prevention and intervention research center that focuses on diabetes and associated obesity and depression.
  • CDC's Office of Minority Health & Health Disparities
    Aims to accelerate CDC’s health impact in the U.S population and to eliminate health disparities for vulnerable populations as defined by race/ethnicity, socio-economic status, geography, gender, age, disability status, risk status related to sex and gender, and among other populations identified to be at-risk for health disparities.
  • Center for Health Equality
    Works towards the reduction and elimination of minority health disparities.
  • Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades
    Los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades monitorean la salud pública, desarrollan estrategias para la prevención y control de las enfermedades, y aseguran un ambiente seguro y sano.
  • Healthy Arizona 2010
    A comprehensive statewide prevention agenda designed to improve the health of all Arizonans over the next decade.
  • HHS Office of Minority Health
    Serves as a national resource and referral service on minority health issues. Part of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
  • 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.
  • Institutos Nacionales de la Salud
    Los Institutos Nacionales de la Salud son centros de investigación médica que ayudan a prevenir, detectar, diagnosticar, y tratar enfermedades.
  • Latino Coalition for a Healthy California
    A statewide organization with a specific emphasis on Latino health, founded in 1992 by health care providers, consumers and advocates to impact Latino health through enhanced information, policy development and community involvement.
  • Lupus Foundation of America
    A non-profit voluntary health organization dedicated to finding the causes and cure for lupus. Mission is to improve the diagnosis and treatment of lupus, support individuals and families affected by the disease, increase awareness of lupus among health professionals and the public, and find the causes and cure through research, education, and patient services. Some information is available in Spanish.
  • National Alliance for Hispanic Health
    Mission is to improve the health and well being of Hispanics. The Alliance informs consumers, supports health and human service providers in the delivery of quality care, improves the science base for accurate decision making by promoting better and more inclusive research, promotes appropriate use of technology, insures accountability, advocates on behalf of Hispanics, and promotes philanthropy. Information in English and Spanish.
  • National Healthy Start Association
    Promotes the development of community-based maternal and child health programs, particularly those addressing the issues of infant mortality, low birthweight and racial disparities in perinatal outcomes.
  • New Mexico Border Health Office
    A component office of the Public Health Division, New Mexico Department of Health. Works to improve the overall health status and health services in the New Mexico border region and other border-impact areas of the state.
  • New Mexico Outreach Office, U.S. - Mexico Border Health Commission
    Mission is to improve health status and health services in the New Mexico border region and other border-impact areas of the state.
  • Oficina de Salud Fronteriza del Departamento de Servicios de Salud de Texas
  • Oficina de Salud para las Minorías
  • 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 de Cupones para Alimentos, Servicio de Alimentos y Nutrición
    El propósito del Programa de Cupones para Alimentos es eliminar el hambre y mejorar la nutrición y la salud. El mismo ayuda a las familias de bajos ingresos a comprar la comida necesaria para una dieta nutritiva.
  • Red de Educación para la Salud Fronteriza
  • Salud En Acción: National Hispanic/Latino Health Communication Research
    Provides extensive expertise in the fields of public health promotion, health research, health communication and community networking with regard to working with the Hispanic/Latino communities.
  • San Diego-Tijuana Border Initiative
    A bi-national coalition whose mission is to encourage closer collaboration among social and community service providers in the region with the specific intent of promoting institution building and policy development for issues of equal importance to both sides of the border. Includes a Binational Prevention Information Clearinghouse, a database of information about alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention materials. Information is available in Spanish.
  • Southern Arizona Trauma Network
    Provides trauma related educational opportunities to trauma professionals throughout southern Arizona, the state and the region.
  • Texas Association of Community Health Centers
    A private, non-profit membership association that represents safety-net health care providers in the state of Texas.
  • 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 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.
  • Valley Primary Care Network, Inc.
    Serves as a catalyst to bring participating health entities in the Borderplex area together to develop and implement projects that would respond to health promotion and disease prevention intervention initiatives and opportunities.