Undocumented Migrants in Switzerland: Geographical Origin Versus Legal Status as Risk Factor for Tuberculosis
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| Titel: | Undocumented Migrants in Switzerland: Geographical Origin Versus Legal Status as Risk Factor for Tuberculosis |
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| Autoren: | Wolff, H., Janssens, J., Bodenmann, P., Meynard, A., Delhumeau, C., Rochat, T., Sudre, P., Costanza, M., Gaspoz, J., Morabia, A. |
| Quelle: | Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, Vol. 12, No 1 (2010) pp. 18-23 |
| Verlagsinformationen: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2009. |
| Publikationsjahr: | 2009 |
| Schlagwörter: | Adult, Male, 0301 basic medicine, ddc:174.957, Mycobacterium, 03 medical and health sciences, Switzerland/epidemiology, Tuberculosis/diagnosis/*ethnology, Risk Factors, Humans, Mass Screening, Tuberculosis, ddc:613, Geography, ddc:616, Transients and Migrants, 0303 health sciences, 174.957, Mycobacterium/isolation & purification, Transients and Migrants/*legislation & jurisprudence, Middle Aged, Latin America/ethnology, 3. Good health, Cross-Sectional Studies, Latin America, Female, Switzerland |
| Beschreibung: | Undocumented migrants, meaning migrants without a legal residency permit, come to Geneva from countries with high tuberculosis (TB) incidence. We estimate here whether being undocumented is a determinant of TB, independently of origin. Cross-sectional study including undocumented migrants in a TB screening program in 2002; results were compared to 12,904 age and frequency matched participants in a general TB screening program conducted at various workplaces in Geneva, Switzerland from 1992 to 2002. A total of 206 undocumented migrants (36% male, 64% female, mean age 37.8 years (SD 11.8), 82.5% from Latin America) participated in the TB screening program. Compared to legal residents, undocumented migrants had an adjusted OR for TB-related fibrotic signs of 1.7 (95% CI 0.8;3.7). The OR of TB-related fibrotic signs for Latin American (vs. other) origin was 2.7 (95% CI 1.6;4.7) among legal residents and 5.5 (95% CI 2.8;10.8) among undocumented migrants. Chest X-ray screening identified a higher proportion of TB-related fibrotic signs among Latin Americans, independently of their residency status. |
| Publikationsart: | Article |
| Dateibeschreibung: | application/pdf |
| Sprache: | English |
| ISSN: | 1557-1920 1557-1912 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10903-009-9271-6 |
| Zugangs-URL: | https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:21396/ATTACHMENT01 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19582582 https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10903-009-9271-6 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:21396/ATTACHMENT01 https://serval.unil.ch/en/notice/serval:BIB_81818C2311F0 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10903-009-9271-6/fulltext.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19582582 http://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/19582582 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:21396 http://doc.rero.ch/record/314763/files/10903_2009_Article_9271.pdf |
| Rights: | Springer TDM |
| Dokumentencode: | edsair.doi.dedup.....8bf7080f3d2039caf3cba0af75dbfebb |
| Datenbank: | OpenAIRE |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | Undocumented migrants, meaning migrants without a legal residency permit, come to Geneva from countries with high tuberculosis (TB) incidence. We estimate here whether being undocumented is a determinant of TB, independently of origin. Cross-sectional study including undocumented migrants in a TB screening program in 2002; results were compared to 12,904 age and frequency matched participants in a general TB screening program conducted at various workplaces in Geneva, Switzerland from 1992 to 2002. A total of 206 undocumented migrants (36% male, 64% female, mean age 37.8 years (SD 11.8), 82.5% from Latin America) participated in the TB screening program. Compared to legal residents, undocumented migrants had an adjusted OR for TB-related fibrotic signs of 1.7 (95% CI 0.8;3.7). The OR of TB-related fibrotic signs for Latin American (vs. other) origin was 2.7 (95% CI 1.6;4.7) among legal residents and 5.5 (95% CI 2.8;10.8) among undocumented migrants. Chest X-ray screening identified a higher proportion of TB-related fibrotic signs among Latin Americans, independently of their residency status. |
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| ISSN: | 15571920 15571912 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10903-009-9271-6 |