UniMóvil: A Mobile Health Clinic Providing Primary Care to the Colonias of the Rio Grande Valley, South Texas

UniMóvil: A Mobile Health Clinic Providing Primary Care to the Colonias of the Rio Grande Valley, South Texas

Background: We describe a mobile unit (UniMóvil) designed to improve poor healthcare access delivery to residents in two South Texas underserved Colonias. The interprofessional team measured seven clinical outcomes [obesity, diabetes, hypertension, hypertriglyceridemia, low high-density lipoprotein...

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Main Authors: Eron G. Manusov, Vincent P. Diego, Jacob Smith, Jesús R. Garza, John Lowdermilk, John Blangero, Sarah Williams-Blangero, Francisco Fernandez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
Subjects:
Colonia
mobile clinic
quality of life
interprofessional care
border
Mexican-American
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2019.00215/full

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