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Advancing Health Equity for Native American Youth: Workshop Summary
Report of a roundtable workshop held in New Mexico that brought together leaders from a wide range of fields, including those in Native American healthcare, to address the need for greater visibility for the health disparities faced by tribal and indigenous populations, how to develop programs to address those disparities, and how to encourage support for Native American leaders to advance those programs. This workshop specifically focused on Native American youth, addressing such topics as suicide, the importance of grandparents in the lives and care of children, and the cultural resiliency of Native Americans to overcome trauma and disparities.
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Author(s): Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities
Date: 07/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Health without Borders
Video featuring the Health without Borders (HwoB) program, which uses promotoras to provide immunizations door-to-door. This approach is popular in Mexico and provides a familiar experience for the immigrants that HwoB serves in Luna County, New Mexico. Transcript available in the video description.
Date: 06/2016
Type: Video/Multimedia
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Stakeholders' Recommendations to Improve Patient-Centered "LGBTQ" Primary Care in Rural and Multicultural Practices
Discusses the results of a pilot study examining primary care practices when treating rural and ethnic-minority lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) persons within the mostly rural and multicultural state of New Mexico, and offers guidelines to enhance services for the LGBTQ population within clinical settings.
Author(s): Miria Kano, Alma Rosa Silva-Bañuelos, Robert Sturm, Cathleen E. Willging
Citation: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 29(1) 156-160
Date: 02/2016
Type: Document
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Healthy Border 2020: A Prevention & Health Promotion Initiative
Reports on the prevailing public health issues occurring in U.S.-Mexico border populations. Identifies an agenda focused on health promotion and disease prevention, and develops a strategy for implementing a coordinated public health response at binational, state and local levels.
Date: 06/2015
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: United States-México Border Health Commission
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New Mexico Federal Funding Dashboard
Dashboard of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) funded projects in New Mexico. Categories of funding include broadband, health and human services, housing, emergency response, and more. Includes state agency profiles and county-level data.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: The State of New Mexico
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2021 New Mexico Emergency Department Data Annual Report
Reports on 2021 New Mexico emergency department (ED) visits by hospital, acute and chronic condition, diagnosis, and rates by age, sex, and race/ethnicity, for each of the five health regions. Includes map to show all counties within these regions.
Author(s): Pei Huang, Roselyn Thalathara, Nora Holzinger, Shandiin Wood
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: New Mexico Department of Health
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Southwest Telehealth Resource Center - Events
List of upcoming webinars and trainings from the Southwest Telehealth Resource Center and the Arizona Telemedicine Program, as well as events from partner organizations. Events cover telemedicine delivery and specialty care, funding opportunities, and more.
Type: Calendar/Event List
Sponsoring organizations: Arizona Telemedicine Program, Southwest Telehealth Resource Center
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Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) Southern New Mexico Outcomes
Series of publications reporting on the Center for Health Innovation's HRSA-funded work with 16 southern New Mexico counties and the rural-designated Torrance and Valencia regions on opioid prevention, treatment, and recovery. Publications include a needs assessment, strategic plan, workforce plan, and sustainability plan.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Center for Health Innovation
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CDC WONDER Underlying Cause of Death with US-Mexico Border Regions, 1999-2020
Provides access to mortality and population data for the U.S.-Mexico border region. Offers data on the number of deaths, crude and age-adjusted death rates, and demographics for different causes of death. Cause of death data available for ICD-10 codes, drug/alcohol induced causes, causes of infant death, and injury intent and mechanism. In addition to viewing data for the border region, border states, and border counties, results can also focus on the level of urbanization for metropolitan, micropolitan, and noncore areas.
Type: Database
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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New Mexico Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey (YRRS)
Highlights the results of the Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey (YRRS) for high school and middle school students in New Mexico. Features county-level reports on youth substance use, unintentional injury, and physical activity, among other factors.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organizations: New Mexico Department of Health, New Mexico Public Education Department, New Mexico School of Medicine
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Last Updated: 5/6/2024