AUTHOR=Matthews Charles Edwards , Wooten Wilma , Gomez María Gudelia Rangel , Kozo Justine , Fernandez April , Ojeda Victoria D. TITLE=The California Border Health Collaborative: A Strategy for Leading the Border to Better Health JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health VOLUME=3 YEAR=2015 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2015.00141 DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2015.00141 ISSN=2296-2565 ABSTRACT=
There are hundreds of people and organizations working on border health issues in the California–Baja California border region trying to protect and improve health. These efforts are being conducted without a collaborative structure that integrates jurisdictions and organizations. Thus, there is a need to coordinate these organizations to work together and benefit from their collective effort and each other’s best practices. The outcome of such an effort could effectively improve the health in the border region. The newly developed “