title: Injuries Among Immigrants Treated in Primary Care in Madrid, Spain.
abstract: This study compared the injury incidence rates by sex in adult immigrant and native population attended in primary care in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Cross-sectional study of injuries registered in the primary care electronic medical record in 2012. Crude and age-adjusted incidence rates by sex, region of birth and type of injury were calculated. Poisson regression was performed. In both sexes, the highest crude injury incidence rate was found in immigrants from North Africa, followed by the native population. After controlling for age and socioeconomic-status, the highest risk of injury in immigrants was observed in burns in women from North-African (79%) and in foreign body injuries in men from Latin America and Caribbean, Sub-Saharan and North Africa and Central and Eastern Europe (61-123%). The analysis by region of origin has identified people from North Africa as a particularly vulnerable group.
authors.affiliation: Directorate-General for Public Health, Madrid Regional Health Authority, C/ San Martin de Porres No 6, 28035, Madrid, Spain. anaclarazoni@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Ana Clara
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Zoni
authors.affiliation: Directorate-General for Public Health, Madrid Regional Health Authority, C/ San Martin de Porres No 6, 28035, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: María Felicitas
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Domínguez-Berjón
authors.affiliation: Directorate-General for Public Health, Madrid Regional Health Authority, C/ San Martin de Porres No 6, 28035, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: María Dolores
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Esteban-Vasallo
authors.affiliation: Directorate-General for Public Health, Madrid Regional Health Authority, C/ San Martin de Porres No 6, 28035, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Luis Miguel
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Velázquez-Buendía
authors.affiliation: Directorate-General for Healthcare Coordination, Madrid Regional Health Authority, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Vendula
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Blaya-Nováková
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.|CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Regidor
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D044469:Racial Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012044:Regression Analysis; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012923:Social Class; D013030:Spain; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000208:ethnology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Accidents; Immigrants; Injuries; Primary care