Chihapas Poverty

Border regions, as described by the political distribution of lands divided by those who inhabited them, have been a long-time source of unrepresentative and poorer health outcomes. The physical dividing lines between countries are meant to be delineations in cultures and societies that define the responsibility of governmental outreach and human services. However, for example, due to relatively unstable and uncontrolled migration along the Haiti-DR border, along with instability in border, along with “ambiguous border and migratory relations” in this region, governmental policies tend to fall short of those living in this border region (ref2, ref1). When writing of the Mexican-U.S. border, Alvarez quotes the lecture of AI Asiwaju, saying

Migration for Mexican immigrants has not always been easy. Having to face the threat of deportation on a daily basis, the stress of acculturation, and coping with an unfamiliar territory has not intimidated nor defeated this population as they seek a better quality of life. As history would have it, the Mexican population not only makes up a large number of immigrants that live in the United States, but they have also contributed to and molded the culture that is seen in North America today (Zong & Batalova, 2016). A main element that has constantly created a roadblock for Mexican immigrants is their inability to access healthcare which has proven to have many negative outcomes on their livelihood.

Mexico and the United States have each adopted a goal to provide the best possible, health care for all citizens. With this in mind, each country has identified a different approach to reaching this goal. A discussion of similarities and differences are addressed in the following paragraphs as well as an explanation of why different approaches exist.

Despite the increased access to heath care in Mexico, Mexicans do not consider it as the first line of care due to the increased importance given to folk medicine, family and over the counter medicine. Medicine that patients in the US can only get by prescription such as antibiotics IM injections, IV fluids and birth controls this population can purchase them from Mexico at low and be mailed to them in the US. This behavior accounts to the low access to care in the US. Due to low literacy level and socio economic status, many Mexicans in the US

The knowledge gap that will be the focus of my practicum project is the relationship between health access and inequity and diabetes in Oaxaca, Mexico. This site will allow me to develop a meaningful, feasible and valuable practicum project due to its unique culture, but also to the many challenges in literacy, sanitation, unemployment, and access to healthcare services that the city of Oaxaca has. Over 50% of the indigenous Mexican population live in the state of Oaxaca while this is the third most economically marginalized state in Mexico mainly due to the lack of infrastructure and education. As described by CFHI, diabetes and other chronic conditions in Oaxaca are “increasingly common as

A country I would like to discuss for this post is Haiti. I have not visited or studied this country, but thought of writing about Haiti after doing some research. A photovoice qualitative research methodology would be appropriate to study poverty in Haiti, because this country has the highest percentage of poverty in the urban and rural areas in Haiti. Poverty in the urban and rural areas affects many people in several ways. Poverty is present in those areas, due to natural disasters when weather conditions destroy crops; lack of income, unemployment, education, and etc. poverty is present in Haiti when children, adults, and families are not given the necessary resources they need in order to survive around the conditions where they live.

The Mexican health care system had evolved a series of disjointed subsystems that are incapable of delivering universal health insurance. Without greatly restructuring the way healthcare is financed, performance with respect to equity will remain poor. The fact that life expectancy at birth in Mexico has improved from forty-two years in 1940 to seventy-three in 2000, major inequalities persist in health and access to health care.

4Green provides loans to vulnerable agricultural communities blocked from access to capital needed to scale economically viable ventures resulting in expansive social impact, ultimately eliminating poverty and child servitude.

Mexico is a place well known by millions of people all around the world. This country is filled with beautiful beaches, history, tradition and culture. Today Mexico is made up of 31 states and federal districts. With this high number of states it is not a surprise that Mexico is the third largest country in Latin America. As this country continues to grow and modernize they continue to hold on, remember and live with their history and culture. Mexico begins with the Olmec’s, as this was Mexico’s first known society. The Olmec’s had two main population centers. These were called Son Lorenxo and La Venta. As time past more villages and groups formed. Villages where based on agriculture and hunting as these two things spread throughout the southern

Cooking and Coping Among the Cacti is an ethnography from 1998 that recounts Roberta D. Baer’s nutritional anthropological study on malnutrition in four groups of Mexican people. Nutritional anthropology is a subset of anthropology that studies the socio-cultural aspects of food consumption and nutritional status. Baer conducted the study in order to determine key aspects of the people’s lives that affect their daily diets and to analyze diet compositions. Through data analysis that combines both qualitative and quantitative methods, she asserts that social factors influence available income and available income further influences. To me, Baer’s proposition and proposition are easy to understand, innovative, and convincing. However, it also

“The increase of overweight during the last 30 years worldwide is warning” (Quintero, 2017). “The health sector is facing the economic consequences of obesity, since the care of cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, disability, chronic kidney disease, musculoskeletal problems, to psychosocial problems, among others.” For that reason, medical services are more expensive than they are meant to. According to the INEGI (2015) Mexico spends about 5,7% of the Gross Domestic Product per year (about 1,060,589 million pesos) divided into the public sector (39.8%), private sector (34.5%) and TNRS (25.7%). The government is in the need of looking for new ways to afford health

Peru has a lot of resources that could have kept a lot of people out of poverty not only back then but those resources could be used for the country today too. In my response I said that its not smart for the Andean countries to only use their natural resources and they should export their goods too. But it seems to me every time countries export goods that's only available in their countries they get taken advantage

of Mexico City using psychosocial interventions. Poverty, it is contended, is more than just a lack of

The history of the Chilean healthcare system is complex yet revolutionary. The start of an established healthcare system began in 1918. In the western hemisphere,

Nowadays, Mexico is a fast-growing economy with a huge gap existing between the rich and poor. Low-income population which account for the bottom 20% of Mexico’s population is the target market for PH, with some distinctive needs to further address.