The United States-México Border Health Commission would like to bring your attention to the October 2008 issue of Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD).

From the article of the Editor in Chief, Lynne S. Wilcox, MD, MPH, we note the following:

“This issue of Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) offers fresh perspectives on the relationships among life stages, health behavior, and chronic disease. We include several reports from a survey of childbearing women in Cameron County, Texas, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, designed to support action by the United States-Mexico Border Health Association (1). PCD has addressed border health previously and observed that the communities of the US-Mexico border region share a culture with health concerns that are different from other places in either country (2).

In this issue, chronic disease experts will note the connections between reproductive health and overall women’s health. When the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission established 2010 objectives for reproductive health and chronic disease, it recognized that baseline data were not available. The Brownsville-Matamoros Sister City Project for Women’s Health (BMSCP) examined the feasibility of meeting this need in reproductive health (1).”

This report may be of interest to border health partners and others in the United States – México border region.