Mexico’s health diplomacy and the Ventanilla de Salud program

López, Raúl Necochea

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“…Prohibitive costs of care can be lowered via targeted insurance programs and discounted pay scales, as well as sustained financial support for the privately funded clinics that bear the burden of affording basic care to this population (Liebert & Ameringer, 2013). An additional solution would be the amendment of U.S. federal immigration legislation to facilitate immigrants' ability to return to Mexico for care using novel programs such as "health visas," or the expansion of the Mexican consular program Ventanillas de Salud that finances the medical repatriation of a limited number of immigrants with dire medical conditions (López, 2018). To dispel immigrants' fear of entering medical facilities, the U.S. government should deny immigration officials jurisdiction to enter health care facilities (Hardy et al, 2012).…”

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The Impact of Binational Barriers to Medical Care on the Care-Seeking Practices of Mexican Immigrants

Crocker

2021

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Barriers to health care access faced by Mexican immigrants in the United States have been well-documented, including lack of insurance, fear of deportation, and language barriers. However, little is known about this population’s care-seeking experiences before migration. In this article, I use a life-course approach to explore binational isolation from health care and the ways in which early-life experiences pattern Mexicans’ care-seeking practices in the United States. This ethnographic research project took place in Tucson, Arizona, between 2013 and 2014 and used semistructured interviews with service providers and first-generation Mexican immigrants. The majority of participants faced significant barriers to medical care in Mexico, which resulted in low rates of care utilization and heavy reliance on lay modalities. Immigrants faced an even broader array of barriers to care in the United States, and their lack of prior health care access further discouraged care utilization and compromised their medical care experiences after migration.

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The Impact of Binational Barriers to Medical Care on the Care-Seeking Practices of Mexican Immigrants

Crocker

2021

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Migration as a determinant of childhood obesity in the United States and Latin America

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Summary International migration has economic and health implications. The acculturation process to the host country may be linked to childhood obesity. We use the Community Energy Balance (CEB) framework to analyze the relationship between migration and childhood obesity in Mexican households with international migrants. Using longitudinal data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS), we examine how migrant networks affect childhood obesity in origin communities. We also review binational health programs that could be effective at tackling childhood obesity in migrant households from Mexico. Children embedded in migrant networks are at greater risk of developing overweight or obesity, suggesting a significant relationship between childhood obesity and international migration in Mexican households. Based on our search criteria, our analysis of health outreach programs shows that Ventanillas de Salud (VDS)/Health Windows has great promise to prevent childhood obesity in a culturally sensitive and trustful environment. The CEB framework is useful to understand how migration contributes to the risk of childhood overweight and obesity in migrant households. VDS is a feasible and replicable strategy with great potential to address childhood obesity among migrant families accounting for the dynamic and binational determinants of childhood obesity.

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La migración como determinante de la obesidad infantil en Estados Unidos y Latinoamérica

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ResumenLa migración internacional tiene consecuencias económicas y en la salud. El proceso de aculturación en el país de acogida puede estar relacionado con la obesidad infantil. Utilizamos el marco conceptual del balance energético comunitario (CEB, por sus siglas en inglés) para analizar la relación entre migración y obesidad infantil en los hogares mexicanos con migrantes internacionales. Utilizando datos longitudinales de la Encuesta Nacional de Niveles de Vida de los Hogares de México (ENNViH), examinamos cómo influyen las redes de migrantes sobre la obesidad infantil en las comunidades de origen. También revisamos programas de salud binacionales que podrían ser eficaces para abordar la obesidad infantil en los hogares de migrantes procedentes de México. Los niños que forman parte de las redes de migrantes presentan un mayor riesgo de ‐desarrollar sobrepeso y obesidad, lo cual sugiere una relación significativa entre la obesidad infantil y la migración internacional en los hogares mexicanos. Basándonos en los criterios de búsqueda que habíamos definido, realizamos un análisis de programas de extensión comunitaria en salud cuyos resultados indican que las Ventanillas de Salud (VDS) son una opción prometedora para prevenir la obesidad infantil en un entorno de confianza y culturalmente sensible. El marco conceptual CEB es útil para comprender cómo contribuye la migración al riesgo de sobrepeso y obesidad infantil en los hogares de los migrantes. Las VDS son una estrategia viable y replicable con un gran potencial para abordar la obesidad infantil entre las familias migrantes y que toma en cuenta los determinantes dinámicos y binacionales de la obesidad infantil.

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Mexico’s health diplomacy and the Ventanilla de Salud program

Cited by 3 publications

References 32 publications

The Impact of Binational Barriers to Medical Care on the Care-Seeking Practices of Mexican Immigrants

The Impact of Binational Barriers to Medical Care on the Care-Seeking Practices of Mexican Immigrants

Migration as a determinant of childhood obesity in the United States and Latin America

La migración como determinante de la obesidad infantil en Estados Unidos y Latinoamérica

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