Publications and Reports

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• Assessment of Parasitic Disease in Children in Five Communities in the Border Region of Far West Texas, September 2003 (pdf, 353 KB, 1 min 40 sec @ 28.8 kbps)
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• Childhood Pesticide Exposures on the Texas-Mexico Border: Clinical Manifestations and Poison Center Use© 2003 by the American Public Health Association (pdf, 163 KB, 46 seconds using a 28.8 modem)
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• Fact Sheet - Border Area (1997)   
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• Health and Environmental Survey, City of Presidio, December 1995 (pdf, 271 KB, 1 min 17 sec @ 28.8 kbps)
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• Survey of Health and Environmental Conditions in Texas Border Counties and Colonias - Executive Summary
  (26 pages, 342 KB, 1 minute 37 seconds using a 28.8 modem)
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• CDC - TB-Related MMWRs:
  • Preventing and Controlling Tuberculosis Along the U.S.-Mexico Border Work Group Report - MMWR 2001; 49 (No. RR-1)  
    (551 KB, 2 minutes 36 seconds using a 28.8 modem)
  • Characteristics of Foreign-Born Hispanic Patients with Tuberculosis - Eight U.S. Counties Bordering Mexico, 1995. - MMWR 1996; 45 (No. 47)  
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• The Border: On the Brink
  (Texas Comptroller's Report on demographics, statistics and expenditures for border versus non-border counties.)
  
  
• MEDICAL EMERGENCY: Costs of Uncompensated Care in Southwest Border Counties
  (Border Counties Coalition report)
  
  
• Mercury poisoning associated with a Mexican beauty cream   
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• 1996 Survey of Substance Use on the Texas-Mexico Border and in Colonias   
  (from Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse)
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• 1998 TEXAS SCHOOL SURVEY OF SUBSTANCE USE AMONG STUDENTS ON THE BORDER: GRADES 4-12  
  (from Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse)
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MIGRATION

• Binational Study: Migration Between Mexico and the United States