Medicina Clinica
Volume 112, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 215-217

Demographic characteristics, reasons for medical consultation and morbidity in the community of African immigrants for the Catalonian County of Maresme, Spain [Caracterización demográfica, motivos de consulta y morbilidad prevalente en la comunidad de inmigrantes africanos de la comarca del Maresme] (Article)

Roca Saumell C. , Balanzó Fernández X.* , Fernández Roure J.L. , Pujol Ribera E. , Corachán Cuyás M.
  • a Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, EAP El Clot (ICS), Barcelona, Spain
  • b U. de Med. de la Inmigracion y Trop., Hosp. Consorci Sanitari de Mataro, Lepant, 3. 08310 Mataro. Barcelona, Spain
  • c [Affiliation not available]
  • d Técnica de Salud, DAP de Sant Martí (ICS), Barcelona, Spain
  • e [Affiliation not available]

Abstract

BACKGROUND: To know the demographic condition, main symptoms and diagnosis in adult African immigrants from a reference Hospital. PATIENTS AND METHOD: A prospective protocol between 1984-1994. RESULTS: 1,321 immigrants were considered. Most of them had an unstable job and illegal situation and they did not speak any European language. Abdominal pain was the most common symptom. The most frequent diagnoses were parasitic/infections and digestive and haematological diseases. CONCLUSIONS: Immigration is not a risk for public health. The illegal situation carries poor sanitary conditions. The clinical protocols help to overcome cultural and idiomatic barriers.

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Index Keywords

prospective study demography Prospective Studies human Africa, Western morbidity ethnology Humans Adolescent male Spain female Africa Article adult Africa, Northern migration patient attitude Emigration and Immigration Patient Acceptance of Health Care Child
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ISSN: 00257753
Cited by: 29
Original Language: Spanish