The Mexican Migrant Mothers’ Health Miracle

The Mexican Migrant Mothers' Health Paradox is an experiential training that focuses on the fact that during the first weeks of life when more than 50% of all deaths occur, infants born to Mexican women in the US exhibit mortality rates that are statistically equal or even better than babies born to white women. The paradox was coined for the Latinx population because it went against the belief that wealth equaled health. Besides better birth outcomes, Mexican migrants have a lower incidence of mental health issues, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. Since 1986, this epidemiological trend has been studied because it provides an opportunity to learn best practices, validate as well as reinforce healthy behaviors and attitudes, and further improve as well as take up to scale healthy outcomes. Indeed, this population's socio-cultural resilience has helped the community members overcome the usual risk factors that lead to poor health. However, these protective factors seem to be threatened by an expiration date negotiated by the degree of acculturation. In order to respect, protect, and optimize these positive outcomes according to the ideal of health as a human right, it is important to apply strengths-based, structurally competent, and patient-centered approaches. This training is the first step in health system transformation that builds synergistic capacity among participants who will learn how to apply tools to sustainably promote health equity.Master of Public Healt