Migrant health
(Salud del migrante)

On this page:

• Tools (Herramientas)
• Publications (Publicaciones)
• Organizations (Organismos)

Tools
(Herramientas)

• 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
• Listing of Migrant-Serving Non-Profit Organizations in San Diego County
  Provides a list of non-profit organizations serving migrants in San Diego County.
  Sponsoring organization: International Community Foundation
• Find a Health Center
  The Bureau of Primary Health Care Service Delivery Sites tool allows users to search for health centers, including Federally Qualified Health Centers and other Bureau of Primary Health Care service delivery sites, by location. These health centers provide free and low-cost health services. Services include primary medical, obstetrical and gynecological, dental, mental health and substance abuse care, other types of medical and support services.
  Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Primary Health Care
• Think Cultural Health
  Works to improve the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of effective health policies and programs that help to eliminate disparities in health. Develops and tests curriculum modules that effectively equip family physicians with cultural and linguistic competencies.
  Sponsoring organization: HHS Office of Minority Health
• Organizing to Address Minority Health Disparities: A Directory of State and Local Initiatives
  A detailed 90-page compilation of over 300 groups working to address the causes and solutions to the health disparities crisis.
  Sponsoring organization: Poverty & Race Research Action Council
• EthnoMed
  Provides information about cultural beliefs, medical and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to the United States. Includes these culture-specific pages: Amharic, Cambodian, Chinese, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Hispanic, Hmong, Oromo, Somali, Tigrean, & Vietnamese and covers a wide variety of health topics. Some information is available in languages other than English.
  Sponsoring organization: University of Washington
• Office of Minority Health
  A resource center that provides publications, articles, statistics, data, funding sources as well as database searches on minority health topics. Can be contacted by phone at 1.800.444.6472, or by e-mail at info@omhrc.gov.
  Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• 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
• National Hispanic Prenatal Helpline (NHPH)
  Refers Hispanic consumers to a culturally and linguistically proficient prenatal care provider in their community.
  Sponsoring organization: National Alliance for Hispanic Health
• HRSA Information Center
  Provides publications, information, resources, and referrals about health care services for medically underserved individuals and populations.
  Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration

Publications
(Publicaciones)

• ¿Qué es el Tratamiento para el Abuso de Sustancias?
  A Spanish language booklet that answers questions about substance abuse treatment and early recovery.
  Sponsoring organization: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
  Date: 2005
  Format: PDF
  
• AIDS and Migrants: Solutions and Recommendations
  Presents a profile of the HIV Epidemic among migrant farmworkers. Provides recommendations to assist community based organizations and health departments develop and implement effective HIV prevention programs targeting this population.
  Sponsoring organization: University of Oklahoma
  Date: 06 / 2004
  Format: PDF
  
• Analysis of the Funding and Provision of Health Care to Immigrants after Welfare Reform: Local Consequences and Variation in New Mexico: Executive Summary
  Is the executive summary of a report on a study that addressed the local consequences of the 1996 PRWORA (welfare reform) on the funding and provision of health services to immigrants.
  Author(s): Lisa Cacari Stone
  Sponsoring organization: W.K. Kellogg Foundation
  Date: 05 / 2005
  Format: PDF
  
• 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 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
  
• 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
  
• California's Undocumented Latino Immigrants: A Report on Access to Health Care Services
  Report on a survey of undocumented Latino immigrants in California that found Latino immigrants cite "looking for work" as the most important reason for immigrating to the U.S. Few cited immigration to obtain social services as a factor and also reported limited use of public benefits such as Medicaid. The majority of undocumented Latinos surveyed were uninsured and had poverty-level incomes.
  Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
  Date: 05 / 1999
  Format: PDF
  
• Exploring California's Rural Health System: From the Redwood Forests to the Baja Border (March 29-31, 2005)
  Describes a 3-day site visit to explore California's rural health system. Discusses the financial health of inpatient and outpatient providers and how that affects access to care, telemedicine as a tool for expanding access, and special needs of vulnerable populations such as farmworkers.
  Author(s): Eileen Salinsky, Jessamy Taylor
  Sponsoring organization: National Health Policy Forum
  Date: 06 / 2005
  Format: PDF
  
• Health Status: Special Populations
  Provides health-related statistics in text and graph form of the U.S. immigrant population. Results compare male to female, rural to urban, and native to non-native born.
  Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
  Date: 2003
  Format: PDF
  
• Hispanic Health Needs Assessment
  Provides communities with tools to self-identify critical health issues and priorities through existing public health data systems as well as community surveys. Written for Hispanic communities, it could be adaptable to other minority communities.
  Date: 2001
  Format: PDF
  
• Immigrants and Public Benefits: Health Care
  Reports on the study done by a coalition of U.S.-Mexico counties on the costs incurred by those counties in providing uncompensated healthcare.
  Sponsoring organization: National Immigration Law Center
  Date: 11 / 2002
  Format: HTML
  
• Immigrants in the U.S. Health Care System: Five Myths That Misinform the American Public
  Dispels myths about immigrants' place in the U.S. health care system that misinform the debate over immigration.
  Author(s): Meredith L. King
  Sponsoring organization: Center for American Progress
  Date: 06 / 2007
  Format: PDF
  
• The Legality of Collecting and Disclosing Patient Race and Ethnicity Data
  Analyzes whether the collection of patient data by race or ethnicity, as part of a program of quality improvement, violates the law.
  Author(s): Sara Rosenbaum, Taylor Burke, Sonia W. Nath, Jennifer Santos, Dana Thomas
  Sponsoring organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  Date: 06 / 2006
  Format: HTML
  
• Maquiladoras
  Discusses the new circle of poison burdening the environment and damaging the public's health with industrial pollutants is being propelled by the many U.S. and other foreign owned companies operating in Tijuana under the maquiladora system.
  Sponsoring organization: Environmental Health Coalition
  Format: HTML
  
• Mexican Migrant Communities May Be on Verge of HIV/AIDS Epidemic
  Both migrants in the United States as well as those returning to Mexico show higher levels of infection of HIV than the general Mexican population.
  Author(s): Eliza Barclay
  Sponsoring organization: Population Reference Bureau
  Date: 09 / 2005
  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
  
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Health Care: A Chartbook
  Presents evidence linking racial and ethnic health disparities to the overall performance of local health care systems.
  Author(s): Holly Mead, Lara Cartwright-Smith, Karen Jones, Christal Ramos, Kristy Woods, Bruce Siegel,
  Sponsoring organization: Commonwealth Fund
  Date: 03 / 2008
  Format: HTML
  
• Shared Destiny: Shaping a Binational Agenda for Health Priorities in the San Diego - Baja California Border Region
  Report highlights existing cross-border health deficits in the San Diego-Baja California border region, particularly in the areas of health care access and disease risks, and identifies existing institutional barriers that are currently inhibiting expanded cross-border health coverage today. Identifies that the need for expanded cross-border health services is more urgent than ever before and this need now goes beyond existing border area residents to the growing number of fixed income Americans now retiring in Baja California due to economic reasons.
  Author(s): Robert L. Bach, Richard Kiy
  Sponsoring organization: International Community Foundation
  Date: 05 / 2006
  Format: PDF
  
• 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
  
• A Strategic Framework for Improving Racial/Ethnic Minority Health and Eliminating Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities
  Intended to help guide, organize and coordinate the systematic planning, implementation and evaluation of efforts within OMH, DHHS and across the nation to achieve better results relative to minority health improvements and health disparities reductions.
  Date: 2006
  Format: HTML
  
• Strategies for Improving Latino Healthcare in America: Report of The Latino Healthcare Taskforce
  Provides an overview of Latinos in America. Reports on a number of healthcare strategies and recommendations for improving Latino healthcare along with supporting information.
  Author(s): Glenn Melnick, Lois Green, Lawrence Stiffman, et al.
  Sponsoring organization: Latino Coalition
  Date: 09 / 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
  
• U.S. - Mexico Plan of Action for Cooperation on Border Safety
  Provides the text of the agreement between the US and Mexican governments on border safety.
  Date: 06 / 2001
  Format: HTML
  
• Universal Health Symbols Provide Direction for Many in Hospitals
  The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Hablamos Juntos worked with the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) to develop and test 28 health symbols. These new symbols remove language barriers and provide better access to care.
  Sponsoring organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  Date: 12 / 2005
  Format: HTML
  
• Women's Health USA 2005
  A collection of current and historical data on health challenges facing women. Includes a special population section on Border Health.
  Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
  Date: 2005
  Format: PDF
  

Organizations
(Organismos)

• Asociacion Nacional Latino de Adiccion y Salud Mental
  Una organización que lucha por las necesidades de salud mental y abuso de sustancias de la comunidad Latino.
• Association of Clinicians for the Underserved
  A nonprofit, transdisciplinary organization of clinicians, advocates, and health care organizations working to improve the health of America's underserved populations and to enhance the development and support of the medical and dental clinicians serving these populations.
• California Endowment Agricultural Worker Health Initiative
  Works to achieve optimal health for agricultural workers, their families and their communities.
• 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.
• HHS Office of Minority Health
  Serves to improve and protect the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will eliminate health disparities. Part of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
• 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 Hispanic Health
  Dedicated to reducing the incidence, burden, and impact of health problems in Hispanic Americans. The Institute works in close partnership with NCLR affiliates, government partners, private funders, and other Hispanic-serving organizations to deliver quality health interventions that focus on the improvement of access to and utilization of health promotion and disease prevention programs.
• Migrant Clinicians Network
  A network of clinicians across the country who work to eliminate health disparities among migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other vulnerable mobile populations.
• Milagros, Center of Excellence in Migrant Health (Milagros Center)
  Addresses health disparities in the U.S. Hispanic migrant population. Milagros Center will educate future and current service providers including nurses, early childhood specialists, paraprofessionals, and child advocates who deliver services to farm workers and their families both at their home-base in Texas and in multiple locations during their migration.
• National Advisory Council on Migrant Health
  The Council is legislatively mandated to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, on the health and well being of migrant farmworkers and their families. Fifteen members are appointed by the Secretary to serve four-year terms.
• 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 Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
  The mission is to promote minority health and to lead, coordinate, support, and assess the NIH effort to reduce and eliminate health disparities. NCMHD will conduct and support basic, clinical, social, and behavioral research, promote research infrastructure and training, foster emerging programs, disseminate information, and reach out to minority and other health disparity communities.
• 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.
• Oficina de Salud para las Minorías
  
• 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.
• Southwest Rural Health Research Center
  Conducts and disseminates policy-relevant research on critical rural health issues, with a focus on: meeting and understanding the needs of rural underserved and special populations; eliminate or reduce health disparities; and maintain and build rural health systems.
• Texas Association of Community Health Centers
  A private, non-profit membership association that represents safety-net health care providers in the state of Texas.