America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers

A significantly lower percentage of people living along the U.S.-Mexico border are living with zero risk factors than those in the nation as a whole, according to the U.S. Census Bureau?s?Community Resilience Estimates (CRE).

The CRE looks at various risk factors, from income to age and health insurance coverage, to measure how resilient and how at-risk communities are to the impacts of disasters.

In this story, we use the Department of Health and Human Services??U.S. Mexico Border Health Commission?(USMBHC)?s?definition of border.

Established by a binational executive agreement in 2000, the USMBHC was?created??to identify and evaluate current and future health problems affecting the population in the United States-Mexico Border Area, and to encourage and facilitate actions to address those problems.? (Examples of this work can be found in the?2020?Healthy Border report.)

Continue reading?to learn more about:

• CRE border counties

• Border counties by state

• About CRE

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