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The Healthy Gente program includes a set of health objectives for the U.S.-Mexico border region. These objectives are intended to apply to all sub-groups of the border community. While specific objectives may target the health problems of a particular gender, ethnic group or other category, the intent is to apply these objectives to the entire border population, regardless of sex, race, ethnicity or other designation. In particular, these objectives are intended to apply to the migrant worker population of the border as well as the non-migrant population.

The purpose of these health objectives is to assist border health systems to focus on key health problems and to improve the allocation of health resources. The objectives are also intended to provide direction to organizations and communities supporting good health through health promotion policies, and to assist individuals in changing health behaviors.
 

cars waiting to cross the international line

Food stands are common on the border

An elderly man asking for monetary help on the international line


Environment, Health, Nutrition, and Access to Health Care
 are among some of the principal health objectives...
 

Access to Care
1. Reduce by 25 percent the proportion of persons lacking access to a primary care provider in underserved areas.

Cancer
2. Reduce the breast cancer death rate for women by 20 percent.
3. Reduce the cervical cancer death rate by 30 percent.

Diabetes
4. Reduce the diabetes death rate by 10 percent and diabetes morbidity (hospital admissions) by 25 percent.

Environmental Health
5. Reduce to zero the proportion of persons living in counties exceeding EPA air quality standards.
6. Reduce to zero the proportion of households not connected to either compliant public sewage systems or septic tanks.
7. Reduce by 25 percent the number of persons hospitalized for acute pesticide poisoning.

HIV
8. Reduce the incidence of diagnosed HIV infection cases among adolescents and adults by 50 percent.

Immunization and Infectious Diseases
9. Reduce the incidence or hepatitis A and hepatitis B by 50 percent.
10. Reduce the incidence of tuberculosis cases by 50 percent.
11. Achieve and maintain immunization coverage rate of 90 percent for children 19-35 months.

Injury and Violence Prevention
12. Reduce the motor vehicle crash death rate by 25 percent.
13. Reduce the childhood (under age 5) death rate due to unintentional injuries by 30 percent.

Maternal; Infant and Child Health
14. Reduce the infant mortality rate by 15 percent.
15. Reduce the infant mortality rate from birth defects to 30 percent.
16. Increase the proportion of women beginning prenatal care in the first trimester to 85 percent.
17. Reduce the pregnancy rate among 15-17 year-olds by 33 percent.

Mental Health
18. Reduce the suicide death rate by 15 percent.

Nutrition and Overweight 
19. Reduce the proportion of adults who are obese to 15 percent.

Oral Health
20. Increase to at least 75 percent the proportion of the population served by community water systems with optimally fluoridated water.
21. Increase to at least 75 percent the proportion of children and adults who use the oral health care system each year.

Respiratory Diseases
22. Reduce the asthma hospitalization rate by 40 percent.

Substance Abuse
23. Reduce the number of alcohol-related motor vehicle crash deaths by 50 percent.
24. Increase the proportion of 12-17 year-old youths not using alcohol or any illicit drugs during the past 30 days.

Tobacco Use
25. Reduce by 33 percent the proportion of adults and adolescents currently using tobacco.

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