[Motives for consultation and demographic characteristics of a community of "undocumented" immigrants in the district of Usera-Villaverde (Madrid)].
OBJECTIVE
The objectives of the present study are to describe to the social particularizations, reasons for consultation and diagnoses conducted in the adult immigrants without regularizing that they went to this doctor's office in the district of Villaverde-Usera (Madrid), excluding the data from obstetrics-gynecology and pediatric.


METHODS
One is a descriptive observational study, based on the registry of the daily activity of the consultation from 1996 to 1999.


METHODS
Primary level of attention in the area of influence of the municipal districts of Villaverde-Usera.


METHODS
1496 consultations to immigrants without regularizing adults, taken care of in our consultation are described in the mentioned period.


RESULTS
By means of the registry of daily activity social and demographic variables took shelter, of reason and type of consultation, as well as of the main diagnosis that brought to them to the consultation, en 1496 consultations of illegal immigrants (533 people). 31% of the consultations were new and a 14% of absences to the citation were registered. 67% of the consultations made women, the average age was of 34.9 years and in a 76% it referred like South America origin. The diseases that more consultations generated were acute respiratory infection 18%, depressives disorders 11% and the backache with also a 11%. The 48% the reasons for the consultation were acute and 60% took place to free demand.


CONCLUSIONS
The group of consultations taken care of responds to the profile of a young South American woman, that fundamentally consults by acute respiratory infections, and very in proximity by depressive-anxious upheavals and lumbar affections, problems very in relation to his situation of immigrant. The irregularity adds to a risk when making difficult the access, most of the consultations are precise, failing in elevated occasions to the programmed consultation.
Esteban y Peña
M M
MM
Centro Municipal de Salud, Usera, Madrid. mimeda@teleline.es
D000328:Adult; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003710:Demography; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D010349:Patient Compliance; D012140:Respiratory Tract Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology
Motivos de consulta y características demográficas de una comunidad de inmigrantes "sin papeles" en el distrito de Usera-Villaverde (Madrid).