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Tools
(Herramientas)

  • 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
  • U.S. - Mexico Border Issues: A Selected Bibliography from the Smithsonian Institution Libraries' Collections
    A bibliography that includes selected print and electronic sources related to U.S. - Mexico border issues that are available at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, as well as various academic and public libraries. The materials encompass a variety of disciplines including history, political science, health science, economics, society and culture, and the arts.
    Sponsoring organization: Smithsonian Institution
  • 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
  • Georeferenced Population Data Sets of Mexico
    GIS of Mexican states, municipalities, and islands, 1990, in Arc/Info export format. In this dataset, the boundaries of the Mexican states and municipalites that share borders with the United States are consistent with those from TIGER95. Attributes include selected demographic and socioeconomic variables from INEGI.
    Sponsoring organization: Center for International Earth Science Information Network
  • Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
    Facilitates access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. Primarily focused on research and academic endeavors, the center has also become a gateway to Latin America for primary and secondary school teachers and students, private and public sector professionals.
    Sponsoring organization: University of Texas: Austin
  • 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
  • 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
  • National Latino Research Center (NLRC)
    Specializes in applied research, training, technical assistance and research-based services that contribute to the knowledge and understanding of the rapidly growing U.S. Latino population.
    Sponsoring organization: California State University: San Marcos
  • The National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS)
    An employment-based, random survey of the demographic and employment characteristics of the U.S. crop labor force. The information is obtained directly from farm workers through face-to-face interviews. Since 1988, when the survey began, nearly 43,000 workers have been interviewed.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Labor
  • Rural Health Research: Border and international health
    Provides summaries of current and completed rural health research projects and related publications addressing the topic of border and international health, produced by the Office of Rural Health Policy's funded rural health research centers.
    Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Research Gateway
  • Effective Health Care Program
    Provides reports from quality research in formats for consumers, clinicians, and policymakers. Several resources are available in Spanish.
    Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Funding
(Financiamiento)

Publications
(Publicaciones)

  • 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
  • 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
  • Improving Knowledge Transfer Among Health Researchers and Decisionmakers at the Border: An Expert Meeting
    Summarizes a June 26, 2007 meeting to identify ways to improve the translation and dissemination of U.S.-Mexico border health research produced in the United States so as to maximize its use by decisionmakers in health policy and practice.
    Sponsoring organization: Office of Rural Health Policy
    Date: 06 / 2007
    Format: HTML
  • Proximity of Rural Black and Hispanic/Latino Communities to Physicians and Hospital Services
    This brief reports the findings of a study of how the African American and Hispanic/ Latino composition of rural communities relates to local physician concentrations, and relates to distances to hospitals offering various levels of services.
    Author(s): Donald E. Pathman, Thomas R. Konrad, Robert Schwartz
    Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center (Cecil G. Sheps Center)
    Date: 05 / 2001
    Format: PDF
  • Report: Setting the Agenda for Research on Cultural Competence in Health Care
    This project looks at the question of what impact cultural competence interventions have on the delivery of health care and health outcomes, and investigates the opportunities and barriers that affect how further research in this area might be conducted.
    Sponsoring organization: HHS Office of Minority Health
    Date: 11 / 2005
    Format: HTML

Journals
(Revistas)

  • Border Voices
    Newsletter of the Border Epidemiology & Environmental Health Center
    Sponsoring organization: Border Epidemiology and Environmental Health Center

Organizations
(Organismos)

  • Arizona - Mexico Commission
    Works to strengthen the economic and cultural relations within the Arizona-Mexico region and to develop Arizona's ties with Latin America.
  • Arizona Rural Health Office
    Promotes the health of rural and medically underserved individuals, families, and communities through service, education, and research.
  • California Endowment Agricultural Worker Health Initiative
    Works to achieve optimal health for agricultural workers, their families and their communities.
  • California Institute for Rural Studies
    Works toward a rural California that is socially just, economically viable, and environmentally balanced.
  • Center for the Advancement of Health
    Translates to the public evidence-based research on health, health care, prevention and chronic disease management, with an emphasis on how social, behavioral and economic factors affect illness and well-being.
  • 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.
  • Center for U.S. - Mexican Studies, UCSD
    Supports research relevant to current policy issues in Mexico and to the binational relationship in close collaboration with social scientists at Mexican institutions. In addition, most of the Center's research involves comparative studies with a substantial Mexico component.
  • Central Valley Health Policy Institute
    The mission of the Central Valley Health Policy Institute is to facilitate an interactive regional process to identify, monitor, and analyze emerging health policy issues that influence the health status of people living in Central California.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Investigación y la Calidad del Cuidado de la Salud, Agencia para la
    La Agencia para la Investigación y la Calidad del Cuidado de Salud apoya, dirige, y disemina la investigación que mejora el acceso al cuidado de la salud. Esta agencia investiga la calidad, el costo, y los resultados de los servicios del cuidado de la salud para mejorar la organización y la calidad de estos servicios.
  • 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.
  • Rio Grande Institute
    Works to foster appreciation of the unique economic, cultural and natural resources of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo basin and to facilitate informed action to conserve those resources and use them for the public good.
  • San Diego Dialogue
    Contributes to the advancement of research, relationships and solutions to the San Diego-Baja California crossborder region's long-term challenges in innovation, economy, health and education.
  • 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 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.
  • Trans-Border Institute
    Created in 1994 with two main objectives: 1) to promote border-related scholarship, activities and community at the University of San Diego, and 2) to promote an active role for the University in the cross-border community.
  • UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
    A major policy research institute based at UCLA and is affiliated with the School of Public Health and School of Public Affairs.