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The border health authority : issues and design /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. U.S.-Mexican Policy Studies Program
Other Authors: Hatcher, Jeanette Marie, 1970-
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: [Austin, Tex.] : U.S.-Mexican Policy Studies Program, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, [1995]
Series:U.S.-Mexican occasional paper ; no. 6.
Subjects:
Communicable Diseases > statistics & numerical data.
Public Health.
Health Services.
Southwestern United States.
Mexico.
Table of Contents:
  • Sect. 1. Communicable diseases in the United States-Mexico border region
  • Tuberculosis
  • Rabies
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Hepatitis A
  • Hepatitis B
  • Cholera
  • Salmonellosis
  • Measles
  • Malaria
  • Typhoid fever
  • Brucellosis
  • Sect. 2. U.S. and Mexican public health services
  • Public health in the United States
  • Mexican public health services
  • A comparison between the United States and Mexico
  • Sect. 3. Cross-border utilization of medical services
  • Use of U.S. health care system by Mexican residents.
  • Use of medical services in Mexico by U.S. residents
  • Sect. 4. Transborder health cooperation
  • Binational organizations
  • Federal initiatives
  • Sect. 5. Transborder public health issues in Brownsville/Matamoros
  • Demographic profile of Brownsville/Matamoros
  • Overview of major transborder public health problems
  • Profile of the area's public health resources
  • Transborder collaboration and provision of services
  • Improving binational collaboration.