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ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health2015

Frequency of infectious diseases in immigrants in a Western European country: a population-based study.

Rosa Maria Limina, Guglielmino Baitelli, Claudio Marcantoni, Loredana Covolo, Andrea Festa, Fabrizio Speziani, Francesco Vassallo, Carmelo Scarcella, Francesco Donato

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Article in Journal of immigrant and minority health, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  1. Race, Ethnicity, Nativity and Perceptions of Health Risk during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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Rosa Maria LiminaDepartment of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, University of Brescia, Viale Europa 11, 25123, Brescia, Italy, limina@med.unibs.it.
Guglielmino Baitelli
Claudio Marcantoni
Loredana Covolo
Andrea Festa
Fabrizio Speziani
Francesco Vassallo
Carmelo Scarcella
Francesco Donato

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6 · The paper itself

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The aim of this population-based study was to assess the incidence rates of infectious diseases in native- (Italian) and foreign-born (immigrants) populations in a North Italy area, in 2006-2010. Crude, age-specific incidence rates (IRs) and age-standardised rate ratios (SRRs) between foreign- and native-born subjects and their 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) were estimated. A total of 32,554 cases of infectious diseases were found (9.9% in foreign-born subjects). The highest SRRs between foreign- and nativeborn subjects were found for tuberculosis (SRR = 27.1; 95% CI 21.3-34.3), malaria (SRR = 21.1; 14.6-30.4), scabies (SRR = 8.5; 7.6-9.4), AIDS (SRR = 2.5; 1.8-3.4) and viral hepatitis B (SRR = 3.3; 2.1-5.2). The highest IR was found for AIDS in people from the Americas (IR = 4.57; 95% CI 2.2-8.4), for malaria and tuberculosis in people from Africa (IR = 13.89; 11.6-16.5 and IR = 11.87; 9.8-14.3 respectively). Therefore immigrants are at a higher risk of acquiring some common infectious diseases compared to the native population in Western European countries.

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AdultCommunicable DiseasesEmigrants and ImmigrantsFemaleHumansIncidenceItalyMaleMiddle Aged

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