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The Potential Impact of Border Security Upon Prevalence of Infectious Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2018

Christiana R. Dallas ,
Curtis H. Harris  and
Cham E. Dallas
Christiana R. Dallas*
Affiliation:
College of Public Health, Institute for Disaster Management, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
Curtis H. Harris
Affiliation:
College of Public Health, Institute for Disaster Management, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
Cham E. Dallas
Affiliation:
College of Public Health, Institute for Disaster Management, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Christiana R. Dallas, College of Public Health, Institute for Disaster Management, University of Georgia, 452 Mason Mill Rd., Danielsville, GA 30633 (e-mail: [email protected]).
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Abstract

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)

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Public HealthInfectious Disease MedicineDisaster Medicineborder control
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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 12 , Issue 5 , October 2018 , pp. 554 - 562
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Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2018 

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