TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Injuries in the non industrialised country immigrants: analysis of emergency admissions in Latium, Italy, year 2000
JO  - Annali di Igiene: Medicina Preventiva e di Comunita
A1  - Farchi, Sara
A1  - Rossi, Paolo Giorgi
A1  - Chini, Francesco
A1  - Baglio, Giovanni
A1  - Cacciani, Laura
A1  - Lori, Giuliano
A1  - Borgia, Piero
A1  - Guasticchi, Gabriella
SP  - 335
EP  - 342
VL  - 17
IS  - 4
N2  - Aim of the study is to describe the characteristics of road, home and work-related traumas among adult immigrants born in non-industrialised Countries, and to compare the consequent probability of hospitalisation with Italian adults in Lazio Region, year 2000. Source of data is the Emergency-based Surveillance System, which collects all the emergency ward visits in Lazio region. Accident incidence has been estimated using alternatively the residence permits and the roman resident population born in non-industrialised Countries. The 7.7% of all the emergency visits of immigrants are trauma-related. Road traffic accident visits are more appropriate and urgent. Immigrants have a higher risk of hospitalisation both for road and home accidents compared to the Italians (OR = 1.59 and OR = 1.37 respectively). Immigrants use emergency wards for severe and urgent trauma-related accidents, they have higher probability of hospitalisation compared to the Italians. Our analysis highlights the necessity to improve tools to study immigrant health.
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SN  - 1120-9135
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
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