LEADER 04934nam 2200517z- 450 001 9910220049203321 005 20240424230506.0 035 $a(CKB)3800000000216285 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/46244 035 $a(EXLCZ)993800000000216285 100 $a20202102d2017 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aEmergent public health issues in the US-Mexico border region /$ftopic editors, Cecilia Ballesteros Rosales, University of Arizona, USA, Scott Carter Carvajal, University of Arizona, USA, Jill Eileen Guernsey De Zapien, University of Arizona, USA 210 $cFrontiers Media SA$d2017 215 $a1 electronic resource (116 p.) 225 1 $aFrontiers Research Topics 311 $a2-88945-047-3 330 $aUS-Mexico border region area has unique social, demographic and policy forces at work that shape the health of its residents as well as serves as a microcosm of migration health challenges facing an increasingly mobile and globalized world. This region reflects the largest migratory flow between any two nations in the world. Data from the Pew Research Center shows over the last 25 years there has never been lower than 140,000 annual immigrants from Mexico to the United States (with peaks over 700,000). This migratory route is extremely hazardous due to natural (e.g., arid and hot desert regions) and human made barriers as well as border enforcement practices tied to socio-political and geopolitical pressures. Also, reflecting the national interdependency of public health and human services needs, during the most recent five year period surveyed the migratory flow between the US and Mexico has equaled that of the flow of Mexico to the US--both around 1.4 million persons. Of particular public health concern, within the US-Mexico region of both nations there is among the highest disparities in income, education, infrastructure and access to health care--factors within the World Health Organization?s conceptualization of the Social Determinants of Health, and among the highest rates of chronic disease. For instance obesity and diabetes rates in this region are among the highest of those monitored in the world, with adult population estimates of the former over 40% and estimates in some population sub-groups for the latter over 20%. The publications reflected in this Research Topic, all reviewed from experts in the field, addressed many of the public health issues in the US Mexico Border Health Commission?s Healthy Border 2020 objectives. Those objectives-- broad public health goals used to guide a diverse range of government, research and community-based stakeholders--include Non Communicable Diseases (including adult and childhood obesity-related ones; cancer), Infectious Diseases (e.g., tuberculosis; HIV; emerging diseases--particularly mosquito borne illnesses), Maternal and Child Health, Mental Health Disorders, and Motor Vehicle Accidents. Other relevant public health issues affecting this region, for example environmental health, binational health services coordination (e.g., immunization), the impact of migration throughout the Americas and globally in this region, health issues related to the physical climate, access to quality health care, discrimination/mistreatment and well-being, acculturative/immigration stress, violence, substance use/abuse, oral health, respiratory disease, and well-being from a social determinants of health framework, are critical areas addressed in these publications or for future research. Each of these Research Topic publications presented applied solutions (e.g., new programs, technology or infrastructure) and/or public health policy recommendations relevant to each public health challenge addressed. 606 $aPublic health$zMexican-American Border Region 606 $aEmigration and immigration$xHealth aspects$zMexican-American Border Region 606 $aPublic Health$3https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011634 606 $aEmigration and Immigration$3http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004641 606 $aSocial Conditions$3https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012924 607 $aMexico 607 $aUnited States 610 $aborder health 610 $abinational health 610 $aBinational collaboration 610 $aUS 615 0$aPublic health 615 0$aEmigration and immigration$xHealth aspects 615 2$aPublic Health. 615 2$aEmigration and Immigration. 615 2$aSocial Conditions. 676 $a362.10972/1 702 $aCarvajal$b Scott Carter 702 $aDe Zapien$b Jill Eileen Guernsey 702 $aRosales$b Cecilia Ballesteros 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910220049203321 996 $aEmergent Public Health Issues in the US-Mexico Border Region$93020382 997 $aUNINA