Shared Destiny: Shaping a Binational Agenda for Health Priorities in Border Region
The report also issues a call for action, beginning with a Regional Health Summit led by private and non-governmental leaders. The summit’s objective would be to initiate a community-wide campaign to identify coordinated strategies to raise the scale of investment and program engagement in cross-border health risks. These strategies would address the key binational question: What can be achieved working across the border that can not be achieved working separately on each side? Click here to visit the dedicated website for this report >> |
This Report highlights existing cross-border health deficits in the San Diego-Baja California border region, particularly in the areas of health care access and disease risks and identifies existing institutional barriers that are currently inhibiting expanded cross-border health coverage today. The report identifies that the need for expanded cross-border health services is now more urgent than ever before and this need now goes beyond existing border area residents to the growing number of fixed income Americans now retiring in Baja California due to economic reasons.
