title: [Health status of immigrants arrived to Italian coast].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the factors involved in access to Emergency Department (ED) of undocumented immigrants in Lampedusa according to the country of origin.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a retrospective observational study, carried out on newly arrived undocumented immigrants transferred to ED.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were collected from medical records of Lampedusa ED between January 2012 and May 2013 on 326 undocumented immigrants.
  
  
  METHODS
  The outcomes evaluated are demographics characteristics and health condition of undocumented immigrants.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In multivariate analysis associated factors to ED visits are: other pathologies rather than traumatic diseases (OR 0.22; p <0.001), younger age (OR 0.9; p <0.001) and female sex (OR 12.49; p=0.017) for Somalis; gastroenterological diseases (OR 2.55; p=0.026) and older age (OR 1.6; p=0.004) for Eritrean; neurological disease (OR 5.33; p=0.048) and male sex (OR 5.45; p=0.032) for Tunisian.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This analysis shows that undocumented immigrants cannot be considered as a single population, because they generate a diversified set of pathological conditions.
authors.affiliation: Scuola di specializzazione in igiene e medicina preventiva, Dipartimento di scienze per la promozione della salute e materno infantile "G. D'Alessandro", Università degli studi di Palermo. alberto.firenze@unipa.it.
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Firenze
authors.forename: Vincenzo
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Restivo
authors.forename: Valentina
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bonanno
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Aleo
authors.forename: Stella
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pace
authors.forename: Maria Grazia Laura
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Marsala
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Palermo
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa / Q000208:ethnology; D000367:Age Factors; D001208:Asia / Q000208:ethnology; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*