Le piante tossiche della flora trapanese (Sicilia)

2013

Toxic plants of Trapani district (Sicily) – The results of the research refer to an investigation on the toxic plants of Trapani district (Sicily). The plants considered poisonous, a few anciently used also in the traditional medicine, amount to 70 taxa.

STATO DI SALUTE DEGLI IMMIGRATI AFRICANI APPRODATI SULLE COSTE ITALIANE

2014

Health status of immigrants arrived to Italian coast [Stato di salute degli immigrati approdati sulle coste italiane ]

2014

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the factors involved in access to Emergency Department (ED) of undocumented immigrants in Lampedusa according to the country of origin. DESIGN: This is a retrospective observational study, carried out on newly arrived undocumented immigrants transferred to ED. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Data were collected from medical records of Lampedusa ED between January 2012 and May 2013 on 326 undocumented immigrants. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: 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 <0.0…