TY - JOUR
T1 - Perspectives on a Us-Mexico Border community's Diabetes and "health-care" access Mobilization efforts and comparative analysis of community health needs over 12 Years
AU - Rosales, Cecilia Ballesteros
AU - de Zapien, Jill Eileen Guernsey
AU - Chang, Jean
AU - Ingram, Maia
AU - Fernandez, Maria L.
AU - Carvajal, Scott C.
AU - Staten, Lisa K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Rosales, de Zapien, Chang, Ingram, Fernandez, Carvajal and Staten.
PY - 2017/7/10
Y1 - 2017/7/10
N2 - This paper describes a community coalition-university partnership to address health needs in an underserved US-Mexico border, community. For approximately 15 years, this coalition engaged in community-based participatory research with community organizations, state/local health departments, and the state's only accredited college of public health. Notable efforts include the systematic collection of health-relevant data 12 years apart and data that spawned numerous health promotion activities. The latter includes specific evidence-based chronic disease-preventive interventions, including one that is now disseminated and replicated in Latino communities in the US and Mexico, and policy-level changes. Survey data to evaluate changes in a range of health problems and needs, with a specific focus on those related to diabetes and access to health- care issues-identified early on in the coalition as critical health problems affecting the community-are presented. Next steps for this community and lessons learned that may be applicable to other communities are discussed.
AB - This paper describes a community coalition-university partnership to address health needs in an underserved US-Mexico border, community. For approximately 15 years, this coalition engaged in community-based participatory research with community organizations, state/local health departments, and the state's only accredited college of public health. Notable efforts include the systematic collection of health-relevant data 12 years apart and data that spawned numerous health promotion activities. The latter includes specific evidence-based chronic disease-preventive interventions, including one that is now disseminated and replicated in Latino communities in the US and Mexico, and policy-level changes. Survey data to evaluate changes in a range of health problems and needs, with a specific focus on those related to diabetes and access to health- care issues-identified early on in the coalition as critical health problems affecting the community-are presented. Next steps for this community and lessons learned that may be applicable to other communities are discussed.
KW - Border health
KW - Border health survey
KW - Community engagement
KW - Community health
KW - Community-based participatory research
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U2 - 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00152
DO - 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00152
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85029389616
SN - 2296-2565
VL - 5
JO - Frontiers in Public Health
JF - Frontiers in Public Health
IS - JUL
M1 - 152
ER -