Blurred Borders: Trans-Boundary Impacts & Solutions in the San Diego-Tijuana Border Region

Over the years, the border has divided the people of San Diego County and Tijuana over language, culture, national security, public safety and a host of other cross-border issues ranging from human migration to the environment. For some, the 'us' versus 'them' mentality has become more pervasive following the tragedy of September 11, 2001, with a growing number of San Diegans focusing greater attention on terrorism and homeland security, as well as the need to re-think immigration policy in the United States as a means of fortifying the international border. This is validated by a recent KPBS/Competitive Edge research poll that found 46% of English-speaking San Diegans desiring that the U.S. impose tighter restrictions on the border. Yet the question remains: if San Diegans and Tijuana are so different, why is our shared port of entry the most busily crossed international border in the world with over 56 million crossings a year? The answer is simple. Opposites attract. The contrasts and complementarities between San Diego and Tijuana are so powerful that residents, as well as visiting tourists and business people, endure post-9/11 traffic and pedestrian delays to cross the border for work, school, cultural enrichment, maintaining family ties or sheer economic necessity

PUBLIC HOUSING AND PUBLIC HEALTH: CONSTRUCTING HEALING SPACE IN POST-WORLD WAR II NASHVILLE

Public housing was structured with health and healthcare in mind from its beginnings in the late thirties and early forties. During the construction of James A. Cayce Homes and J. C. Napier Homes, the two largest public housing projects in Nashville, clinic space was built into the administration buildings. By 1943, the local health department had partnered with the Nashville Housing Authority (NHA) to open well-baby clinics in the public housing clinic space. The goal of these clinics was to provide education to parents, immunizations, and physical examinations to infants up to preschool age. Integrating these clinics with public housing projects also meant that the health department could gain access to and surveillance of a vulnerable population in a standardized environment where they were already being micromanaged and surveilled by the NHA. By the 1950s, the health department’s mobile dental and x-ray units were concentrated on bringing corrective dental care to indigent children and tuberculosis x-ray screening to what they considered susceptible populations and environments. Therefore, servicing public housing was at the top of their list. For over twenty years, these three public health programs and various private organizations continually permeated the boundaries of the public housing space, intending to improve the health of the socially vulnerable while also surveilling due to disbelief that the poor could manage their own health. The link between public health activities and public housing, which has not been expanded upon in either public health or urban studies historiographies, allows us to ask what it meant for a vulnerable space to be continually infiltrated by public health programs. Through textual analysis of correspondence, municipal government and private organization annual reports, and news periodicals, this thesis seeks to make the case that this link constructed public housing as a healing space that complicated the private and public nature of public housing as a space. The boundaries of the projects were made permeable by and for the government that created them. Therefore, as Community Health Centers emerged in the mid-1960s, the communities they entered were already primed as healing spaces

PUBLIC HOUSING AND PUBLIC HEALTH: CONSTRUCTING HEALING SPACE IN POST-WORLD WAR II NASHVILLE

Public housing was structured with health and healthcare in mind from its beginnings in the late thirties and early forties. During the construction of James A. Cayce Homes and J. C. Napier Homes, the two largest public housing projects in Nashville, clinic space was built into the administration buildings. By 1943, the local health department had partnered with the Nashville Housing Authority (NHA) to open well-baby clinics in the public housing clinic space. The goal of these clinics was to provide education to parents, immunizations, and physical examinations to infants up to preschool age. Integrating these clinics with public housing projects also meant that the health department could gain access to and surveillance of a vulnerable population in a standardized environment where they were already being micromanaged and surveilled by the NHA. By the 1950s, the health department’s mobile dental and x-ray units were concentrated on bringing corrective dental care to indigent children and tuberculosis x-ray screening to what they considered susceptible populations and environments. Therefore, servicing public housing was at the top of their list. For over twenty years, these three public health programs and various private organizations continually permeated the boundaries of the public housing space, intending to improve the health of the socially vulnerable while also surveilling due to disbelief that the poor could manage their own health. The link between public health activities and public housing, which has not been expanded upon in either public health or urban studies historiographies, allows us to ask what it meant for a vulnerable space to be continually infiltrated by public health programs. Through textual analysis of correspondence, municipal government and private organization annual reports, and news periodicals, this thesis seeks to make the case that this link constructed public housing as a healing space that complicated the private and public nature of public housing as a space. The boundaries of the projects were made permeable by and for the government that created them. Therefore, as Community Health Centers emerged in the mid-1960s, the communities they entered were already primed as healing spaces

Health and Human Services in Texas: A Reference Guide

Guide to inform the public on available state and federal programs

The effect of paraprofessional assistance on the academic achievement of migrant children

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of paraprofessional assistance on the academic progress of lower achieving intermediate grade migrant children

Health promotion, inequalities and young people’s health: a systematic review of research

The review described in this report had two aims: to provide a descriptive map of the extent to which health promotion and public health intervention research has focused on inequalities in young people’s health; and to look in more detail at the methods used by researchers for defining and measuring inequalities. We defined ‘young people’ as those aged from 11 to 21. Addressing inequalities requires methods for including diverse populations in research and discriminating between them. Methods for the latter are addressed in this report; methods for the former are addressed in another study conducted at the same time