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- Title
Diabetes among Latinos in the Southwestern United States: border health and binational cooperation.
- Authors
Casey, Ryan P.; Rouff, Mark A.; Jauregui-Covarrubias, Lorena
- Abstract
This analysis reviews cooperation between the four border states of the United States of America (Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas) and international partners in Mexico with regard to type 2 diabetes among Latinos. Binational cooperation, academic collaboration, preventative health initiatives, and efforts to improve health care access for the border population are highlighted. This meta- analysis of the literature points out causative factors of the increased type 2 diabetes prevalence among Latinos in the United States; an inverse correlation between diabetes and education and socioeconomic level; contributing factors, including barriers with language, health care payment, transportation, and underestimating diabetes implications; and a lack of social and environmental support for disease management. Medical and indirect costs in socioeconomic terms are also included. Cooperation between the United States and Mexico may be beneficial to promoting further collaborative efforts between these nations, and serve as a template for greater cooperative efforts to mitigate the substantial public health and socioeconomic implications of type 2 diabetes globally.
- Subjects
MEXICO; SOUTHWESTERN United States; HEALTH promotion; HEALTH services accessibility; HISPANIC Americans; INTERPROFESSIONAL relations; TYPE 2 diabetes; PREVENTIVE health services; DISEASE management; EVALUATION of human services programs
- Publication
Pan American Journal of Public Health / Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2014, Vol 36, Issue 6, p391
- ISSN
1020-4989
- Publication type
Article