Cross-Border Collaboration in Oncology: A Model for United States–Mexico Border Health

Does the border matter for health care? A study of medical services provider’s location at cities in the Mexican side of the border

“…Considering this premise the perspective adopted to conduct the exploratory data analysis in the first stage of this investigation primarily focused on the latter two determinants and results on income profiles and uninsured population shares as a proxy for health care access constrains at the us side of the border indicate the existence of social conditions that foster cross border medical services demand. Apparently these social determinants combined with the presence of strong market forces previously documented by Bastida et al (2008) such as medical services price differentials, seems to result in a social incentive providing alternatives that motivates patients to frequently cross the border into Mexico to demand health care services, argument in line with recent empirical evidence also explored by authors such as Jabbari et al (2015) among others.…”

“…The growing medical service sector in the Mexican cities adjacent to the us border has been increasingly becoming a focus of attention for scholars and policy makers, whose efforts documented that particular health care needs arising from existing and developing health treats contribute to an increasing drift towards binational integration in health care across the us-Mexico border (Jabbari et al, 2015).…”

“…Research on the social conditions at the us Mexico border, indicates that health care services and patients quite frequently cross the us Mexico border (Jabbari et al, 2015;Su, Pratt, Salinas, Wong & Pagán, 2013) with a particular strong demand flowing in a north to south direction. The study of determinants of such an empirical regularity has identified economic factors as a main driver.…”

“…4 According to empirical evidence provided by Jabbari et al, (2015) in relation to the dynamics of cancer health care at the border: "...the relative paucity of radiation therapy and other oncologic services in the Baja California (Mexico) region, contribute to the increased need for binational collaborations in oncology across the us-Mexico border" (Jabbari et al, 2015, p. 1).…”

“…According to Jabbari et al (2015), in the southern region of San Diego County (California), up to 70% of oncology patients are Spanish speaking, with the majority having important social, economic, or health care ties across the border (Jabbari et al, 2015). e-ISSN 2395-9134 Manzanares, J. L. /Does the border matter for health care?…”