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Resolution 109 (1988 Annual Meeting), referred to the Board of Trustees, calls for the American Medical Association to urge the US Congress to establish and support a permanent US-Mexico border environmental health commission and to assist Mexico and the United States in developing programs designed to address substandard environmental health in communities on both sides of the US-Mexico border. (JAMA. 1990;263:3319-3321)

Council on Scientific Affairs

JAMA. 1990;263(24):3319-3321.

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THE UNITED States and Mexico share a 3200-km—long border, 64% of which is marked by the Rio Grande River. Along this vast stretch, from San Diego/Tijuana on the Pacific Coast to Brownsville/Matamoros on the Gulf of Mexico, are 14 pairs of cities—28 in all. According to the 1980 census, which is the most accurate index thus far of border population, 7.5 million persons live in the US counties and Mexican municipalities. This figure has undoubtedly increased dramatically since the last count (although no substantiating data are available), because the worsening Mexican economy has prompted many more Mexican nationals to move over to the more prosperous border cities— sites of the US industry—established maquiladora plants where various consumer electronic and other products are made and assembled. Also contributing to the burgeoning population of the border area is an extraordinarily high birth rate and decreasing death rate in Mexico, together with the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Council on Scientific Affairs, American Medical Association, Chicago, Ill.

Footnotes
This report was submitted to the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association at the June 1989 Annual Meeting as a policy report of the Council on Scientific Affairs.

This report is not intended to be construed or to serve as a standard of medical care. Standards of medical care are determined on the basis of all of the facts and circumstances involved in an individual case and are subject to change as scientific knowledge and technology advance and patterns of practice evolve. This report reflects the views of scientific literature as of June 1989.

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