Healthy Border 2010: An Agenda for Improving Health on the United States-Mexico Border (also in Spanish)
Author: United States-Mexico Border Health Commission
Date Published: 2003
The Healthy Border Program was established as the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission's binational agenda of health promotion and disease prevention in March of 2001. The program is based on the framework of Healthy People 2010 and incorporates the United States Healthy Gente Program and Mexico's Indicadores de Resultado (National Health Indicators). The framework of Health Border 2010 is composed of 20 health objectives held in 11 focus areas. With the border populations and the environmental conditions of each country being similar to each other, similarities in priority heath issues also exist. Eight of the top ten causes of death are the same in both countries: cardiovascular disease, cancer, unintentional injuries, diabetes mellitus, cerebrovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pneumonia and influenza combined, and chronic liver disease and cirrhosis. The border regions of both countries also have high rates of certain infectious diseases. Tuberculosis and water and food-borne illnesses are the primary infectious diseases of public health significance on the border. Healthy Border 2010: An Agenda for Improving Health in the United States-Mexico Border is the first report of the Healthy Border Program. It is considered a "living document" that will be enhanced by companion documents that will focus on heath statistics for the border, continued development of the initiative, and specific efforts to address the issues and the evaluation of those efforts. Book is bilingual.
Date Published: 2003
The Healthy Border Program was established as the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission's binational agenda of health promotion and disease prevention in March of 2001. The program is based on the framework of Healthy People 2010 and incorporates the United States Healthy Gente Program and Mexico's Indicadores de Resultado (National Health Indicators). The framework of Health Border 2010 is composed of 20 health objectives held in 11 focus areas. With the border populations and the environmental conditions of each country being similar to each other, similarities in priority heath issues also exist. Eight of the top ten causes of death are the same in both countries: cardiovascular disease, cancer, unintentional injuries, diabetes mellitus, cerebrovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pneumonia and influenza combined, and chronic liver disease and cirrhosis. The border regions of both countries also have high rates of certain infectious diseases. Tuberculosis and water and food-borne illnesses are the primary infectious diseases of public health significance on the border. Healthy Border 2010: An Agenda for Improving Health in the United States-Mexico Border is the first report of the Healthy Border Program. It is considered a "living document" that will be enhanced by companion documents that will focus on heath statistics for the border, continued development of the initiative, and specific efforts to address the issues and the evaluation of those efforts. Book is bilingual.
