The Potential Impact of Border Security Upon Prevalence of Infectious Disease

In the U.S., migration has been documented to affect the prevalence of infectious disease. As a mitigation entity, border security has been recorded by numerous scholarly works as being essential to the support of the health of the U.S. population. Consequently, the lack of current health care monit...

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Published in:Disaster medicine and public health preparedness 2018-10, Vol.12 (5), p.554-562
Main Authors: Dallas, Christiana R., Harris, Curtis H., Dallas, Cham E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
16th century
Accountability
Border security
Border stations
Commentary
Disease Outbreaks - prevention & control
Ebola virus
Emigration and Immigration
Food security
Health care
Humans
Immigration
Infectious diseases
Migration
Mitigation
National security
Prevalence
Public health
Quarantine
Salmonella
Security Measures - trends
Smallpox
Speaker, Andrew
Tuberculosis
United States
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Summary:In the U.S., migration has been documented to affect the prevalence of infectious disease. As a mitigation entity, border security has been recorded by numerous scholarly works as being essential to the support of the health of the U.S. population. Consequently, the lack of current health care monitoring of the permeable U.S. border places the U.S. population at risk in the broad sectors of infectious disease and interpersonal violence. Visualizing border security in the context of public health mitigation has significant potential to protect migrant health as well as that of all populations on both sides of the border. Examples of how commonly this philosophy is held can be found in the expansive use of security-focused terms regarding public health. Using tools such as GIS to screen for disease in people before their entrance into a nation would be more efficient and ethical than treating patients once they have entered a population and increased the impact on the healthcare system. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2018;12:554–562)
ISSN:1935-7893
1938-744X
DOI:10.1017/dmp.2017.118