[Occupational accidents among immigrant women in the Italian North-Eastern regions (Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia)].
OBJECTIVE
to describe occupational accidents among foreign women working in two regions of North-Eastern Italy, in the perspective of a desirable prevention policy.


METHODS
frequency distribution of occupational accidents among foreign women covered by the National Institute for Insurance against Work Accidents (INAIL) in 2000.


METHODS
foreign female workers employed in two regions of North-Eastern Italy.


METHODS
frequency distribution of work accidents.


RESULTS
1003 occupational accidents to foreign female workers occurred in Veneto and 383 in Friuli Venezia Giulia. The most frequent places of origin of injured workers in Friuli Venezia Giulia (borderline region with Slovenia) were former Yugoslavia (113) and Albania (28). In Veneto, corresponding countries of origin were Africa (156), Romania (84) and Albania (80).
Bacciconi
Marina
M
Dipartimento di medicina e sanità pubblica, Sezione di medicina legale, Università degli studi di Verona.
Patussi
Valentino
V
Barbina
Paolo
P
Calabresi
Claudio
C
Gallieri
Daniela
D
Coppola
Nora
N
Sarto
Franco
F
Falasca
Pasquale
P
Di Tommaso
Francesca
F
Falasca
Giovanni
G
D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002391:Catchment Area, Health; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male