Publications by authors named "R Rusciani"
Article Synopsis
- The COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected the health and socioeconomic conditions of recently immigrated populations, with studies conducted in Northern Italy focusing on this group's experiences in reception centers.
- A mixed-methods approach was utilized, combining quantitative data from reception centers and qualitative insights from focus groups and interviews to assess the pandemic's impact on migrant health and access to services.
- Findings indicated no higher COVID-19 incidence or severity among migrants compared to the broader Italian population, despite risks from poor living conditions, while pandemic-related disruptions led to both health challenges and new opportunities for disease management, alongside increased mental health issues.
Background: according to the literature, socially disadvantaged strata of the population, including immigrants, have been more vulnerable to the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection due to greater exposure and less opportunity to protect themselves, and to COVID-19 complications due to metabolic and clinical risk factors as well as to healthcare access barriers. Two Italian projects - coordinated by the Italian National Institute for Health, Migration and Poverty and the Italian National Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - set up an epidemiological surveillance to monitor the temporal trends of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in five Italian regions using validated indicators.
Objectives: to identify differences between Italians and immigrants in terms of the epidemic evolution and its health consequences, and to investigate possible differences by urbanisation degree and region of residence.
Objectives: to describe indicators, data sources, and levels of geographical stratification used within the framework of the CCM project "Epidemiological Surveillance and Control of COVID-19 in Metropolitan Urban Areas and for the containment of SARS-CoV-2 circulation in the immigrant population in Italy".
Design: population-based observational study based on data from the Integrated Covid-19 Surveillance System and the archive of hospital discharge records.
Setting And Participants: interregional collaborative project.
Objectives: to analyze the difference of the SARS-CoV-2 infection impact between Italian and foreigner subjects, evaluating the trend of infections and access to diagnostic tests (molecular or antigenic swabs for the detection of SARS- CoV-2) in the two different populations, inducing the detection of new positive cases in the population.
Design: retrospective population study for the period February 2020-June 2021.
Setting And Participants: Italian and foreign resident population on 1st January of the years 2020 and 2021 in the Regions participating to the project: Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna (Northern Italy), Tuscany, Lazio (Central Italy), and Sicily (Southern Italy).
Objectives: to quantify the variability of COVID-19 mortality from the beginning of the pandemic to mid-July 2021, in relation to the immigrant status and by Region and period.
Design: observational incidence study.
Setting And Participants: the study population consists of the residents at the beginning of 2020 in seven Regions (Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Lazio, Sicily) aged <=74 years.