The health of irregular and illegal immigrants: Analysis of day-hospital admissions in a department of migration medicine

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 561-566

  Affronti, Mario ^a   Affronti, Andrea ^a   Pagano, Salvatore ^a   Soresi, Maurizio ^b   Giannitrapani, Lydia ^b   Valenti, Miriam ^a   La Spada, Emanuele ^b   Montalto, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UO di Medicina delle Migrazioni ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Health need; Immigrant people; Migration diseases; OSI project; Risk indicators

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84884532543     PISSN: 18280447     EISSN: 19709366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-011-0635-2     Document Type: Article

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