This paper investigates household purchasing behavior in response to differing alcohol and tobacco taxes near an international border. Our study suggests that large tax differentials near borders induce economically important tax avoidance behavior that may limit a government’s ability to raise revenue and potentially undermine the pursuit of important health and social policy goals. We match n...

BACKGROUND Given the dramatic increase in type 2 diabetes in the United States, the development of effective strategies to prevent and control this potentially devastating illness is more important than ever. In the Southwest, diabetes is a far too common and rapidly growing problem among Mexican Americans living near the U.S.-Mexico border. A project designed to address this problem enabled fa...

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...

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Diabetes is a serious public health problem in the border region between the United States of America and Mexico, reflecting and by some measures surpassing the extent of national diabetes burden of each country. The U.S.-Mexico Border Diabetes Prevention and Control Project, a two-phase prevalence study on type 2 diabetes and its risk factors, was conceived and developed by culturally diverse ...

Background: The border between Nigeria and Cameroun stretches for hundreds of kilometers. The movement of patients from Maiduguri, NE Nigeria into Cameroun’s border hospitals is becoming very popular. This study investigated the categories of people involved in such movement, their healthcare needs in Cameroun and the motivation behind the movement. Methods: In-depth interviews with fifteen par...

Aims: Flexibility and conformability are key performance characteristics in dressing design and construction, which can have an impact on product suitability in the clinical environment. This study evaluated both quantitatively and qualitatively the conformability and comfort of a variety of wound dressings (Biatain® Soft/Ag/Non-adhesive (Coloplast), Allevyn® Gentle (Smith and Nephew), Mepilex®...

The quality of housing construction in border colonias and the impact of this on the environment and on the health, safety, and quality of life of their inhabitants stems directly from the methods of construction of these dwellings, the materials used, and their design. These were investigated for two Tecate communities, El Rincon and El Descanso, which included colonia sett lements. Conditions...

Certificate of Need (CON) laws, state laws requiring providers to obtain licenses before adopting health-care technology, have been controversial. The effect of CON on technology supply has not been well established. In part this is because analyses have focused on state-level supply effects, which may reflect either the consequence of CON regulation on supply or the cause for its adoption or r...