[Available evidence on the health of immigrants in Italy]

Overall 410 scientific papers on the health of immigrants in Italy published from January 2010 to September 2019 were tracked on PubMed and classified by methodology adopted and health issue investigated. Results were compared with a similar review carried out for the decade 2000-2009. The number of available papers has almost tripled. Infectious diseases, although no longer accounting for the majority of publications, are still a well-represented issue; within this field, parasitic infections have been increasingly investigated over time. Many studies published in the last decade addressed adherence to cancer screening, workplace accidents, cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular diseases. Based on the characteristics of the immigrant population (country of origin, migration path, length of stay in Italy, socio-economic status), and taking into account the rapid changes in the distribution of risk factors and pathologies at global level, informative gaps can be identified to be filled with new lines of research. Another priority for the epidemiological community is to disseminate the already available evidence to the whole staff of the National Health Service.