BACKGROUND In many European countries, foreign nationals experience, on average, less favorable treatment outcomes in rehabilitative care than the respective majority population. In Germany, this for example is reflected in a lower occupational performance and a higher risk of disability retirement after rehabilitation as analyses of routine data show. However, little is known about the perspec...

UNLABELLED Abstract PURPOSE In this study, we analyzed pulmonary tuberculosis treatment outcomes among foreign nationals of different backgrounds. METHODS The research was conducted between January 2006 and December 2011. One hundred fifty nine foreign nationals residing in Osaka city had pulmonary tuberculosis during this period. Patients were grouped according to treatment outcomes. We co...

We assessed the risk of overweight and obesity for six large migrant groups in Switzerland. We used population-based survey data form the Swiss Migrant Health Survey 2010 and the Swiss Health Survey 2007. The sample comprised permanent residents aged 17 64 years (n = 14,637). Multivariate logistic regressions have been used to estimate odds ratios (OR). Compared with Swiss nationals, the odds o...

due to its neighborhood with afghanestan and the subsequent problems of this country such as insecurity, weak economic conditions, and lack of proper border monitoring, khorasan razavi province has always been the inhabitat of numerous foreign nationals. legal and illegal entry of these people has created plenty of issues from different economic, social, and cultural aspects for the citizens of...

We used a standardised behavioural surveillance survey (BSS), modified to be directly relevant to populations in conflict and post-conflict settings as well as to their surrounding host populations, to survey the populations of a refugee settlement in south-western Uganda and its surrounding area. Two-stage probability sampling was used to conduct 800 interviews in each population. The BSS ques...

INTRODUCTION Under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), United Nations (UN) Member States reported progress on the targets toward their general citizenry. This focus repeatedly excluded marginalized ethnic and linguistic minorities, including people of refugee backgrounds and other vulnerable non-nationals that resided within a States' borders. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim t...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: High performance work system Host country nationals Relational psychological contract Job performance This study argues that multinational corporations (MNCs) which implement high performance work system in their host country nationals may help their workers form relational psychological contracts with the MNC. Such practices can increase host country national wo...

OBJECTIVE To study trends in HIV case notification rates in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. DESIGN A ten year retrospective review of annual HIV case notification returns to the Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. METHODS Annual Registry statistics covering the period 2000 to 2009 were reviewed. Annual incidence trends were stratified according to the following demographics: age, nati...

OBJECTIVE Migrants tend to present higher overweight and obesity levels, but whether this relationship applies to all nationalities has seldom been studied. The present study aimed to assess the prevalence of overweight and obesity according to nationality in adults. DESIGN Cross-sectional population-based samples. SETTING Five-year nationwide interview surveys (Swiss Health Surveys - SHS) ...