The United States–Mexico border is the largest international boundary, running from Tijuana–San Diego to Brownsville–Matamoros; it extends 1,989 miles (3,201 km) along the Rio Grande or Rio Bravo depending on which side of the border you are standing on. It is the most frequently crossed international boundary in the world, with *230,000 legal crossings being made each day, 350 million in a yea...

This paper discusses whether European institutions should devote so much attention and funding to cross-border healthcare or they should instead prioritise guaranteeing universal health coverage (UHC), inequalities and tackling the effects of austerity measures. The paper argues through providing the evidence in both areas of research, that the priority at European level from a public health an...

OBJECTIVE To estimate prevalence of type 2 diabetes (diabetes) and impaired fasting glucose (IFG) in the border region between the United States of America and Mexico, by ethnic origin and country of residence; identify risk factors associated with both conditions; and explore the extent to which these factors account for cross-border or ethnic disparities in prevalence. METHODS From April 20...

Ethnic populations in eastern Burma are the target of military policies that result in forced labour, destruction of food supplies, and massive forced displacement. Despite international assistance to Burmese refugees along the Thai-Burma border, traditional humanitarian models have failed to reach these internally displaced persons (IDPs) within Burma. Nevertheless, through the cultivation of ...

Movement of malaria across international borders poses a major obstacle to achieving malaria elimination in the 34 countries that have committed to this goal. In border areas, malaria prevalence is often higher than in other areas due to lower access to health services, treatment-seeking behaviour of marginalized populations that typically inhabit border areas, difficulties in deploying prevent...

The United States-Mexico Border is 3,183 km long, running overland for 1,117 km and along rivers for 2,066 km (see Figure 1). Geographically, the border area is a desert plain broken by a mountainous zone in the region of the two Californias. The border’s highest altitude is 1,200 meters above sea level, which is reached where the border passes by Dtiuglas, Arizona (U.S.A.) and Agua Prieta, Son...

In this commentary, we establish a relationship between medical sociology and the study of medical tourism and cross-border healthcare by introducing Ronald Andersen’s behavioral model of healthcare use, and linking this model to the recent empirical study of Kovacs et al. on patients travelling to Hungary for orthopedic treatment. Finally, we plead for more measurement in the field of patient ...