U.S.-Mexico border health : issues for regional and migrant populations /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Power, J. Gerard, Byrd, Theresa
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, [1998]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Health issues on the U.S. Mexico border : an introduction
  • Pt I. Cultural values and health promotion in the border region
  • A mile away and a world apart : the impact of interdependent and independent views of the self on U.S. Mexican communications
  • Increasing the consent rate for organ donation in the Hispanic population
  • Psychological risk factors and substance abuse among young adults : a comparison of non-Hispanic whites and Mexican Americans
  • Communicating about emerging infectious diseases in the borderlands : hantavirus education for rural, border and migrant populations
  • Pt II. Challenges of two adjoining health systems
  • Alcohol and tobacco advertising in the border region
  • Cross-border cooperation : a case study of binational tuberculosis control
  • A patch for the quilt : HIV/AIDS, homosexual men and community mobilization on the Mexico-U.S. border
  • Easy access to contraceptives among adolescent females in a U.S. Mexico border city
  • Pt III. Models for health promotion in the border region
  • Boundary spanners : Las Promotoras in the borderlands
  • Project VIDA : community health models that work
  • Alternative approaches to heroin treatment among youth in a Mexican border city
  • Pt IV. Community and health promotion in the border region
  • Notes on community health on the border from theory and practice
  • Health outreach programs in the colonias of the U.S. Mexico border
  • Divine resources : health education activities at churches along the U.S.-Mexico border
  • Migrant and seasonal farmworkers : health care issues