[Health status of immigrants arrived to Italian coast]
Alberto Firenze1, Vincenzo Restivo, Valentina Bonanno
1Scuola di specializzazione in igiene e medicina preventiva, Dipartimento di scienze per la promozione della salute e materno infantile "G. D'Alessandro", Università degli studi di Palermo. alberto.firenze@unipa.it.
Objective:
To analyze the factors involved in access to Emergency Department (ED) of undocumented immigrants in Lampedusa according to the country of origin.
Design:
This is a retrospective observational study, carried out on newly arrived undocumented immigrants transferred to ED.
Setting And Participants:
Data were collected from medical records of Lampedusa ED between January 2012 and May 2013 on 326 undocumented immigrants.
Main Outcome Measures:
The outcomes evaluated are demographics characteristics and health condition of undocumented immigrants.
Results:
In multivariate analysis associated factors to ED visits are: other pathologies rather than traumatic diseases (OR 0.22; p <0.001), younger age (OR 0.9; p <0.001) and female sex (OR 12.49; p=0.017) for Somalis; gastroenterological diseases (OR 2.55; p=0.026) and older age (OR 1.6; p=0.004) for Eritrean; neurological disease (OR 5.33; p=0.048) and male sex (OR 5.45; p=0.032) for Tunisian.
Conclusion:
This analysis shows that undocumented immigrants cannot be considered as a single population, because they generate a diversified set of pathological conditions.
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