Grupo de trabajo para mejorar la salud en la frontera

Sec. 120.051. TASK FORCE; DUTIES. (a) The department shall establish the Task Force of Border Health Officials to advise the commissioner: (1) on policy priorities addressing major issues affecting the border region residents' health and health conditions; (2) on raising public awareness of the issues described by Subdivision (1); and (3) on other health issues impacting the border region as determined by the commissioner, including: (A) barriers to accessing health care; (B) health problems affecting the region, including: (i) diabetes; (ii) infant mortality; (iii) heart disease and stroke; (iv) obesity; (v) cervical cancer; and (vi) communicable diseases, including tuberculosis; (C) factors that impede access to health care, including: (i) socioeconomic conditions; (ii) linguistic and cultural barriers; (iii) low population density; and (iv) lack of health insurance; (D) surveillance and tracking of communicable diseases, environmental factors, and other factors negatively influencing health; (E) standardization of data to ensure compatibility with data collected by border states on both sides of the international border with Mexico; (F) public health infrastructure that includes Statute text rendered on: 9/10/2024 - 674 - HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE education and research institutions to train culturally competent health care providers; (G) establishment of local and regional public health programs that build on local resources and maximize the use of public dollars to address