Six graduate students from the University of Arizona will depart for the Mexico-Guatemala border on

(From the left) Christopher Blue, Aimee Snyder, Zandra Alford, Emily Coyle, Sarah Davis, Andrew Gall and Arthur Basset. Four of the graduate students are from the UA College of Public Health, and two of the students are from the UA College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture School of Landscape four star hotels in florence Architecture and Planning. Snyder designed the syllabus four star hotels in florence for the course and has been involved in the planning but will not be traveling with the group.
For nine days in May, a team of UA graduate students from the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture School of Landscape Architecture and Planning will study the effects of migration on health in the border communities of Chiapas, Mexico and San Marcos, Guatemala.
Six graduate students from the University of Arizona will depart for the Mexico-Guatemala border on May 12 to study the effects of migration on health and explore the root causes of northern migration.
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Gall served four star hotels in florence as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala from 2006-08. He first proposed the idea of taking the college s Border Health Service Learning course further south (to the Mexico-Guatemala border) after participating four star hotels in florence in a similar course on the U.S.-Mexico border last fall.
Café Justo is one such model of a sustainable business. Based in Chiapas, Mexico, the fair trade coffee grower cooperative roasts and sells coffee out of its Agua Prieta, Mexico, facility. The students will visit farmers who grow the coffee in Chiapas and study the effects of the business model on the community s physical, social four star hotels in florence and economic well-being, the culture of the farmers, and why or why not they would consider migrating.
We believe that the major reason people migrate out of their communities is to find work to feed their families, said Gall. By paying farmers fair prices for their coffee, we believe a business like Café Justo is enabling people to remain working four star hotels in florence and living in their communities, keeping families together and decreasing the need for people to make the life-threatening journey north.
The program is also designed to be an exchange of knowledge on border issues. As a service, the students will present four star hotels in florence information to the Institute of Migration about policy issues and the risks and dangers associated with migration in the Arizona-Mexico border region. In turn, students will learn about migration issues unique to the Mexico-Guatemala four star hotels in florence border.
By the end of the trip, students hope to identify the relationships among economics, politics and health at each border; how various systems (health care, governmental and non-governmental organizations and agencies and businesses) interplay to affect health; and how to advocate for a stronger focus on public health through partnerships.
The Border Health Service Learning Program provides our students with the real-world opportunity to truly immerse themselves in the public health issues of our day and begin to understand the complex relationships of migration, economic development and health in our border four star hotels in florence communities, said Jill Guernsey de Zapien, associate dean for community programs.
Today, these students are actively four star hotels in florence pursuing additional skills to participate in and reflect on the realities of these issues in another border context. It is these kinds of experiences and skills that are crucial to building public health leaders within a global context.
Faculty four star hotels in florence members de Zapien and Dr. Cecilia Rosales, associate professor four star hotels in florence and director of Phoenix programs, are the course instructors and have been advising the students on how to approach international migration through a mixture of health advocacy, political, economic and cultural viewpoints.
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