Internet Directories
Border Health Resources: Selected World Wide Web ResourcesList compiled by Linda L. McKenna
- Arizona Health Sciences Library
- This site was developed for the Arizona Hispanic Center of Excellence, a joint initiative of the University of Arizona's College of Medicine and the Mexican American Studies and Research Center. This resource is intended to support inquiries into U.S./Mexico border health issues, and in particular those impacting Hispanic/Latino and Native American populations.
http://hcoe.ahsl.arizona.edu/all_3.cfm?id=31
- Border EcoWEB(U.S.-Mexico Border Environmental Information)
- http://moe.csa.com/hottopics/ern/00jul/webpage.html
- Hispanic Health
- A Hispanic Center of Excellence WWW page maintained by Baylor College of Medicine, in partnership with UT Pan-Am. This site contains links to online medical reference materials and resources.
http://www.rice.edu/projects/HispanicHealth/Internetres/resourceindex.html
- The Border Health Information and Education Network (BIEN!)
- BIEN! is a health education network funded through a grant from the National Library of Medicine to provide the best in health information free of charge for the people of the border region, both healthcare consumers and healthcare providers. The seventeen members of the BIEN! Network include hospitals, health organizations, and public and academic libraries. BIEN! Is a gateway web site that provides links to health sites on the Internet that have been evaluated by medical and library professionals from our member organizations.
http://www.bienhealth.org/main.htm
- Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC)
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
BPHC Website
Alphabetical Index of Content
http://bphc.hrsa.gov/bphc/INDEX_1.htm
- Cameron County /Matamoros Benchmarking Report
- The study provides select quantitative and qualitative data on Cameron County,
U.S. and Matamoros, Mexico, to assess assets and challenges for regional and
binational development. This is a collaborative effort of the Cross-Border
Institute for Regional Development at the University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas
Southmost College, The IC2(Innovation, Creativity, & Capital Institute),
The University of Texas at Austin, and CBIRD/TRAC (Texas Regional Action Council)
http://blue.utb.edu/cbird/utb-tscfpageformat/reportbenchmark.htm
- Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Research in Underserved Populations
- This Center is funded for five years by the National Institute of Nursing Research/National Institutes of Health to promote health promotion and disease prevention research endeavors in underserved populations. This Center thus addresses a major goal of Healthy People 2010: to reduce disparities in health.
Research Links
http://www.nur.utexas.edu/CHPR2000/links_ResearchDatabase.htm
- Health and Environment
- The Borderlands Encyclopedia- Informational Topics
A digital Educational Resource on Contemporary United States-Mexico Border Issues.
Sponsored by the University of Texas at El Paso.
http://www.utep.edu./border/health.html
- Lower Rio Grande Environmental Resources on the Internet
- http://www.cerc.usgs.gov/lrgrei/enviro.htm
- Office of Border Health- Texas Department of Health
- Web Links to sites about Border Health Topics
Links to sites about the US-Mexico Border
Texas Health and Policy Website
http://www.tdh.texas.gov/border/bhabout.htm
- Que Pasa!
- With the rapid growth of the Internet has come a number of sites that expertly serve the Hispanic/Latino community Here listed are just a few site that have information as well as links to other sites.
http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/internet/hispanic.cfm
- Rio Grande Alliance
- The Rio Grande Alliance is concerned with the protection, improvement and conservation of the Rio Grande Watershed.
This site provides links to organizations and resources associated with the watershed.
http://www.riogrande.org/
- South Texas/Border Region Health Education Initiative
- University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio-
Office of Public Affairs
World Wide Web Links
http://www.uthscsa.edu/stbi/links.htm
- US-Mexico DDViewer 3.1
- Demographic Data Visualization Tool
Columbia University in the City of New York
United States-Mexico Border Sites-Links
http://plue.sedac.ciesin.org/plue/ddviewer/ddv30-USMEX/links.html
- University of Texas-Brownsville and Texas Southmost College (UTB/TSC)
- The Border Region Links is a page for on-line resources that deal with border studies, issues and on-line projects.
Listed are links of interest to those who live on the border and/or those searching for information about the border region in general.
http://wtce.utb.edu/cbird/borderregion2.htm
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