Epidemiology

USA-Mexico System Identifies Factors Helping, Hindering Migrant Workers' Health Care

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, May 30th, 2000

A two-year collaborative project between Mexico and the United States has demonstrated that a health information system linking interior states of two countries is feasible.

The Binational Health Information System for Epidemiological Surveillance of Mexican migrant workers, tested from 1994 through 1996, enabled epidemiological surveillance data on communicable diseases to be exchanged between the states of Guanajuato in Mexico and Pennsylvania in the U.S.

"The target population consisted of migrant workers traveling between Guanajuato and Pennsylvania to work mainly in the mushroom industry, and their sexual partners in their Mexican communities...

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Source: Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA (2000-05-30)

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