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Public health
(Salud pública)

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Tools
(Herramientas)

  • Poison Prevention Week Planner
    Features useful information on how communities can work with local poison centers to implement prevention activities. The planner also gives tips for promoting events with media and through community outreach.
    Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
  • Community Health Worker Evaluation Tool Kit
    A practical and useful guide to program evaluation for community health workers and community health worker programs.
    Sponsoring organization: University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • REALifelines
    Recovery and employment assistance for wounded and injured service members and their families when they return to the homes and lives they left prior to their service to the United States. Contact toll free: 888.774.1361.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Labor
  • Salud Pública en Español
    Estas páginas web ayudan a superar las barreras culturales, económicas y linguísticas para la gente de habla hispana y les ofrece acceso a los servicios e información de Salud Pública en Arizona.
    Sponsoring organization: Arizona Department of Health Services

Funding
(Financiamiento)

  • Colonia Construction Fund (CFC)
    Funding to support community development projects such as sewer, water, and housing rehabilitation to county applicants.
        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
  • National Public Health Leadership Institute (PHLI)
    PHLI is a one-year tuition-free leadership development program for high-potential leaders with a commitment to leading in their own organizations and communities, but also leading system change on the national scene.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Jan 15, 2010
        Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Public Health Conference Support Grant Program
    Grants to provide partial support for specific non-Federal conferences in the areas of health promotion and disease prevention information and education programs, and applied research.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Dec 11, 2009
        Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Public Health Informatics Training
    Training to strengthen the breadth and depth of the public health workforce by providing training in public health informatics.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
        Sponsor: American Medical Informatics Association
  • Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
    Borrowers may qualify for forgiveness of the remaining balance due on their eligible federal student loans after they have made 120 payments on those loans under certain repayment plans while employed full time by certain public service employers.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
        Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education
  • Safety-net Enhancement Initiative
    Funding designed to reduce health disparities within vulnerable communities by enhancing collaboration and coordination among agencies and institutions providing health and social supports to these communities.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
        Sponsor: Kresge Foundation

Publications
(Publicaciones)

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
  • 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)

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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 Endowment Agricultural Worker Health Initiative
    Works to achieve optimal health for agricultural workers, their families and their communities.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture
    Conducts research and provides information about Latinos/as in California. Provides technical assistance to community organizations. Reports and data can be obtained on the website.
  • Healthy Arizona 2010
    A comprehensive statewide prevention agenda designed to improve the health of all Arizonans over the next decade.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 Latina Health Network
    Works to develop and strengthen the networks of Latina leaders in public health, and building local and national community health partnerships.
  • National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
    Works to ensure the fundamental human right to reproductive health for Latinas, their families and their communities through education, advocacy and coalition building.
  • New Mexico Adult Protective Services
    Provides services mandated by state law on behalf of persons age 18 years of age or older. Services include investigation of reports of abuse, neglect and/or exploitation; protective placement; caregiver services; and legal services, such as filing for guardianship/conservatorship.
  • 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.
  • Oficina de Salud Fronteriza del Departamento de Servicios de Salud de Texas
  • Organización Panamericana de la Salud
  • Pan American Health Organization
    Works to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas. Serves as the specialized organization for health of the Inter-American System and as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization. It is an international public health agency, and part of the United Nations.
  • 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.
  • South Texas Center
    Provides training in public health, assesses training needs for promotoras, increases access to care for residents, and conducts research on community health.
  • Southwest Public Health Leadership Institute
    Dedicated to improving the health of communities in border and bi-national communities, tribal health programs, and state and county public health systems. Provides leadership workshops and collaborative leadership training for emerging and mid-level public health leaders.
  • 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.