Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is an emerging public health concern near the US-Mexico border, where it has resulted in thousands of cases and hundreds of deaths in the past decade. We identified 4 patients who had acquired RMSF in northern Mexico and subsequently died at US healthcare facilities. Two patients sought care in Mexico before being admitted to US-based hospitals. All patients ...

It’s all too easy to feel helpless about the ongoing plight of the refugees crossing Europe during 2015. In the most recent development thousands of men, women, and children are stranded near the town of Idomeni, on the border of Greece and Macedonia. The charity Doctors of the World aims to meet the serious medical and emotional health needs of all excluded people and is working in almost ever...

--------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT----------------------------------------------------------Healthcare delivery is a collaborative process with many healthcare practitioners from multiple healthcare organizations participating in patients’ treatment. Allergies affect nearly one-fourth of the world population and cause or contribute to significant chronic illness. C...

This article examines the postcolonial politics of migration control in Mayotte, an overseas French department, and argues that these bear necropolitical consequences. It sheds light on gendered dimension this power by focusing life border-crossing experiences undocumented Comorian women. Entrenched barriers to regularization their administrative status endanger access healthcare degrade condit...

BACKGROUND Nepal was struck by devastating earthquakes in April-May 2015, followed by the India-Nepal border blockade later that year. METHODS We used the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics (UN Comtrade) database to analyse exports of various health commodities from India to Nepal from January 2011-September 2016. We used time-series regressions of trading volume vs. unit price to ask ...

To better enable cross-border healthcare delivery, particularly the exchange of ePrescriptions, this global undertaking advances the unique identification of medicinal products (MPs) and patient safety in cross-border settings. Major stakeholders harmonise their respective efforts to deliver • common data models for prescribed MPs • a common vocabulary for unambiguous definition, description, a...

The primary aim of this research is to develop a framework for data management and sharing that will enable countries share complex about known unknown high-risk passengers streamline border-control security processes through the use big analytics Artificial Intelligence (AI). A total 15 semi-structured interviews were used gather qualitative data. thematic analysis approach was analyze intervi...

BACKGROUND Communication with health care providers represents an essential part of access to health care for the over 230 million cross-border migrants around the world. In this article, we explore the complexity of health communication from the perspective of cross-border migrants seeking antenatal care in Cape Town, South Africa in order to highlight the importance of high quality medical in...

The 21st century started with some significant efforts globally in the e-health sector. This was mainly pushed as a generic strategy from many nations and international organizations in order to cope with issues such as ageing population, demographic shift, social security limitations, and financial instability. A second reason was the introduction of new technologies such as cloud computing, W...

We report here the complete genome sequences of three border disease virus (BDV) strains of the same subgenotype isolated in Switzerland from a sheep, a cow, and a pig, respectively. This is the first report of full-length sequences of a tentatively new subgenotype isolated from three different species of cloven-hoofed farm animals.