Alexa Ramirez

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Annotated Bibliography

Ballesteros, R., Scott, e., & Jill Eileen Guernsey De, Z. (2016). Editorial: Emergent public health
issues in the US-Mexico border region. Frontiers In Public Health, Vol 4 (2016),
doi:10.3389/fpubh.2016.00093/full

This article given by Dr. Cecilia Ballasteros, Scott Carbajal and Jill Guernsey members of
the college of Public health, in the University of Arizona.Ffocuses on documenting and
quantifying health disparities in the U.S race, ethnicity and poverty which are the
greatest predictors of inequality in health. In the case of US-Mexico border region this
article demonstrates a careful examination of data on health indicators in border states
and how the border population is being affected with border health issues. Diseases and
infections are present like HIV, TB, Obesity and waterborne infections. In this editorial
article my research question of how does living in a border region affect the health and
health care access for border residents? Is answered with quantitative and quality data.
Dr. Carbajal and Ballasteros explain the reasoning behind health diseases and give
examples, like how in Arizona there has been cases within the last 2 years of diseases
transmissions from Mexico to Arizona and vice versa of mosquitos that transmit dengue
and TB transmitting through commute and sharing a border. The article mentions all
these different contributions they are doing with the California Border health
collaborative and other states public health commissions trying to solve and improve
the border region to promote a better health system and lifestyle. This detail article
helped me understand sharing a border is more than just capital flow and goods but
diseases and infections, thus, it gave me hope that solutions are on their way.

Brown,S.A, Garcia A. A., Kouzekanani., & Hanis, C. L (2002, February 01). Culturally Competent
Diabetes Self-Management Education for Mexican Americans.

This article objective was to determine the effects of a culturally competent diabetes
self-management intervention in Mexican Americans and how diabetes and other
 diseases affect Hispanics and other U.S citizens living in a border. A prospective,
randomized, repeated measures study was conducted on the Texas-Mexico border in
Starr County. This article provided positive feedback to my research since it gave
solutions to solve border health diseases like diabetes. The study done in this article
confirms the effectiveness of culturally competent diabetes self-management education
on improving health outcomes of Mexican Americans, particular for those individuals
with HBA levels>10%. This article was incredibly powerful for my research since it
opened conversation for other resources as well as answer some of my research
questions.

Fatima Syed, T. S. (2017). Pitching our health care across the border. Toronto Star (Canada).

This article written by Fatima Syed provides a comparison of health care access in
Canada versus the United States. Many U.S citizens especially citizens living border
regions do no have access to health insurance and this article provides insight to
Canadas health care system. In brief summarization Sanders the senator reaches out to
Canadian doctors talks to them about how they feel about accepting and treating every
patient they receive equally without asking for health insurance after their checkup. This
is very indifferent to health care system here in the United states. The information given
in this article on health care help me understand better health care policy and those
affected by lack of coverage due to socio-economic reasons.

Feldheim, M. (1998). HEALTH CARE POLICY EVALUATION: A CONCEPTUAL MODEL USING

MEDICAL ETHICS. Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, 21(2), 181-198.
Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/41426765

In brief summarization health care systems, worldwide are being examined with
financial issues dominating the debate. The article covers how in the U.S health care
policy has become a social problem. Key groups are voicing dissatisfaction with the
system one of them being Hispanics living in border cities. This journal focuses of
medical ethics and ethical concerns of the society. Since health care has been based on
capitalistic and market justice values giving priority to its profit-making potentials
 leaving hose in poor conditions, poverty or even in lower classes with no health
coverage. This article really intrigued me because it answered several or a lot of my
research questions that intertwined with my major. Since I am a philosophy major
reading about ethical concerns, moral intuitions, oral choices people make with medical
ethics. This article gave me insight, knowledge and a whole new perspective on how
autonomy is a huge role in health care and the patient self-determination act mandates
that a person should be informed about health care options and outcomes so that
he/she can make a medical treatment choices.

Goldenberg, S. M., Jimenez, T. R., Brouwer, K. C., Silverman, J. G., & Miranda, S. M.
(2018). Influence of indoor work environments on health, safety, and human rights among
migrant sex workers at the Guatemala Mexico border: A call for occupational health and
safety interventions

This article provides information of migrants especially women who move across and
within national borders for reason including economic opportunities family reunification
and access to health care. Within destination setting migrant women are over represented
within precarious and informal employment where they are more likely to face insecurity
and unsafe working conditions including in the sex industry. This has lead migrant women
engaged in sec work vulnerable to sexual transmitted infectious diseases like HIV. Not only
were the women being affected by diseases but mistreated with violence and horrible
working conditions well this article gave me hope of solutions for these women and how
social economic factors do shape your standard of living this it answered several of my
research questions. Since the well-being is interdependent of your economical standard.

Homedes, N., & Ugalde, A. (2003). Globalization and health at the United States–Mexico
border. Am J Public Health, 93(12), 2016-2022. 10.2105/AJPH.93.12.2016

This article studied the impact of globalization on the making of health policy. Globalization
us understood as economic interdependence among nations. The North American Free
trade agreement also known as NAFTA is used as a maker to assess the effects of economic
interdependence on binational health cooperation along the U.S-Mex border. This article
 was extremely informative and answered three quarters of my research questions. As well
as opened the gate to other primary sources since the methods done in this article was
conducted in depth interviews with policy makers, public health specialists and
representatives of professional organizations and unions. This article covers and interview
with the former director of PAHO field office in EL Paso who stated that it is difficult to
cooperate with Mexico addressing border health problems since Mexico has bigger
priorities in the south. However, he also stated that Texas doesn’t treat Binational health
issues as a priority either. Since the state of Texas claims transborder cooperation depends
on those at a local level and local communities. This article answered why border health
security is still extremely weak and how border population do no have the financial
resources to solve these issues.

Kozo, J., Rogelio Zapata-Garibay, Mara, G. R., Fernandez, A., Ricardo Hirata-Okamoto, Wooten,
W., . . . Charles, E. M. (2018). The border health consortium of the California’s-Forming a
binational (California, Baja California) entity to address the health of a border region: A
case study. Frontiers in Public Health, Vol 5 (2018), 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00368/full;
10.3389/fpubh.2017.00368

In brief summary, this article covers on California specifically Baja California border region
is one of the most frequently traversed areas in the world with a shared population
environment and health concerns. Border health consortium of California has been
working together in areas of public health, health care, academia and nonprofit sector with
the aim of aligning efforts to improve health outcomes in the region. This article was
informative in a positive way giving more positive feedback on how the consortium is
utilizing a collective impact framework which supports shared vision for a healthy bordered
region. This article covers border jurisdictions both nationally and internationally. I found it
incredible powerful since it provides solutions with cooperative work with the
communities, state and people.
Landeck, M., & Garza, C. (2003). Utilization of physician health care services in Mexico by U.S.
Hispanic border residents. Health Marketing Quarterly, 20(1), 3-16.
10.1300/J026v20n01_02 \

Landeck and Garza main focus is on the utilization of physician health care services in
Mexico by U.S Hispanic Border Residents. This article discuss the issue of accessibility to
health services by US residents being most critical to Hispanic residents living along the
U.S-Mexico border who have been identified to having low health standards and low socio-
economic conditions when compare to the rest of the state. Landeck and Garza answer all
of my research questions and survey question on shy U.S resident depends on Mexico
medical care as well as how border resident doesn’t have access to health coverage due to
their economic status.

Lara, M., Gamboa, C., Kahramanian, M. I., Morales, L. S., & Bautista, D. E. (2005).
ACCULTURATION AND LATINO HEALTH IN THE UNITED STATES: A Review of the Literature
and its Sociopolitical Context. Annual Review of Public Health, 26(1), 367-397.

This chapter provides an overview of the concept of acculturation and the possible
relationships between acculturation and selected health and behavioral outcomes among
Latinos. Latino health is complex and not well understood, in certain areas substance
abuse, dietary practices and birth outcomes there is evidence that acculturation has
negative affect and is associated with worse health outcomes. That is in technical terms
what border health issues means too. Especially in a city like El Paso with more than 50%
Latinos or Hispanics occupating the region. This chapter answered how living in a border
region affects your health and how Latinos are impacted by the acculturation process.

Macias, E. P. & Morales, L. S. (2001). Crossing the Border for Health Care. Journal of Health Care
for the Poor and Underserved 12(1), 77-87. Johns Hopkins University Press. Retrieved
March 20, 2018, from Project MUSE database.
Crossing the border for health care namely just with the title states a lot but the article
Focuses on studies and surveys done in health fair in south Los Angeles County which is
 approximately 140 miles from the U.S-Mexico Border. Nearly 80 percent of respondents
crossing the border for medical care were uninsured, 70 percent reported low costs for
medical care and 28 percent respondent reported purchasing medication in Mexico with
antibiotics and pain medication being reported in highest frequency. This study showed
the high cost of health care and lack of insurance compels the poor and uninsured to
seek low cost health care and medication in Mexico. Thus, answering my research
question that many border residents and locals do cross the border to get medical care.
Richard Bath, C. (1982). Health and environmental problems: The role of the border in El Paso-
Ciudad Juarez coordination. Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 24(3), 375-
392. 10.2307/165503

In a brief summarization, El Paso and Ciudad Juarez share a common border, a common air
shed and mutual sources of water supply and the ever-present threat of disease. This
paper reviews the efforts to resolve and solve common health and environmental
problems between the two cities. Bath provides what is necessary at the outset some type
of analytical framework to better understand the relations between the two cities. This
article does a great job on providing collective data and answering research questions
especially in my local area of El Paso comparing the two border cities.

Sapkota, S., Kohl, H. W., Gilchrist, J., McAuliffe, J., Parks, B., England, B., . . . Nolte, K. B. (2006).
Unauthorized border crossings and migrant deaths: Arizona, New Mexico, and El Paso,
Texas, 2002–2003. Am J Public Health, 96(7), 1282-1287. 10.2105/AJPH.2005.075168
Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2005.075168

Sapkota examines the major causes of and risks factors for death among immigrants who
died while making unauthorized border crossings into the United States from Mexico.
Sapkota explains how deaths among unauthorized migrants are emerging as a major public
health issue that is intertwined with social, economic and political factors. The reason I
chose this resource was because it provided great primary research and my local city was
directly impacted by this certain type of border issue. Unauthorized crossing is a border
issue that has led to major public health factors and this article introduces and answers my
 research question of what is the cause of border health issues and political, social and
economic factors stated by author Sankita clearly explains the answer with detail.

Su, D., Richardson, C., Wen, M., & Pagán, J. A. (2011). Cross-Border Utilization of Health Care:
Evidence from a Population-Based Study in South Texas. Health Services Research, 46(3),
859–876.

The objective of this article was to assess the prevalence of health care utilization in
Mexico by Texas border residents and to identify the main contributing factors to their
cross-border utilization of health care services. This study used primary data from a
population based telephone survey and as a result the high prevalence of use of health
care services in Mexico by Texas border residents is suggestive of unmet needs in health
care on the U.S side of the border. Addressing these unmet needs calls for a binational
approach to improve the affordability, accessibility and quality of health care in the US-
Mexico Border region. This article answered all of my research questions and the best part
is It gave me insight to do a similar primary research on randomized surveys here at UTEP
and around the city.