title: [Occupational accidents among immigrant women in the Italian North-Eastern regions (Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia)].
abstract: 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).
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di medicina e sanità pubblica, Sezione di medicina legale, Università degli studi di Verona.
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bacciconi
authors.forename: Valentino
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Patussi
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Barbina
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Calabresi
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gallieri
authors.forename: Nora
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Coppola
authors.forename: Franco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sarto
authors.forename: Pasquale
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Falasca
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Di Tommaso
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Falasca
mesh_terms: 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