Perspectives on a US-Mexico Border Community's Diabetes and "Health-Care" Access Mobilization Efforts and Comparative Analysis of Community Health Needs over 12 Years.

This paper describes a community coalition-university partnership to address health needs in an underserved US-Mexico border, community. For approximately 15 years, this coalition engaged in community-based participatory research with community organizations, state/local health departments, and the state's only accredited college of public health. Notable efforts include the systematic collection of health-relevant data 12 years apart and data that spawned numerous health promotion activities.

Agribusiness, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Health of Agricultural Migrant Workers.

Background: Living conditions and health of migrant farmworkers could benefit from a health promotion model based on corporate social responsibility (CSR).

Objective: To understand how Mexican agribusiness owners and general managers view and practice CSR.

Methods: We interviewed 8 agribusiness owners/managers and 233 farmworkers using open-ended interviews and gathered anthropometrical data of 133 children from farmworkers families.