Life, death, and in-between on the U.S.-Mexico border
Subtitle: así es la vida
By: edited by Martha Oehmke Loustaunau, Mary Sanchez-Bane ; foreword by Xavier Leus.
Contributors: Loustaunau, Martha O., 1938-; Bane, Mary Jo.
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey; Praeger
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Public health -- Mexican-American Border Region; Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Demographic factors affecting the U.S.-Mexico border health status / Federico Gerardo de Cosío and Andrés Boadella; title: The border colonias and the problem of communication : applying anthropology for outreach / Duncan Earle; title: Life histories of four Chicano heroin injecting drug users in Laredo, Texas / Avelardo Valdez and Alberto G. Mata Jr.; title: Dangerous relationships : effects of early exposure to violence in women's lives on the border / João B. Ferreira-Pinto, Rebeca L. Ramos, and Alberto G. Mata Jr.; title: The difference a line makes : women's lives in Douglas, Arizona, and Agua Prieta, Sonora / Ellen R. Hansen; title: Creating a future for Hispanic mothers and daughters on the U.S.-Mexico border / Josefina Villamil Tinajero and Dee Ann Spencer; title: Living with HIV/AIDS in a rural border county : women's service delivery needs / Donna Castañeda; title: Community-based health promotion and community health advisors : prevention works when they do it / Mary Sánchez-Bane and Eva M. Moya Guzmán; title: Rural health on the border and New Mexico's models for care, community empowerment, and cooperation / Martha Oehmke Loustaunau; title: The medical care systems in Mexico and the United States : convergence or deterioration? The view from the border / David C. Warner; title: The Sunland Park/Camino Real partnership : landfill politics in a border community / Ellen Rosell; title: Community-university partnerships addressing environmental issues along the U.S.-Mexico border / James VanDerslice, Amy K. Liebman, and Theresa L. Byrd.