Simone Bartolacci

Agenzia Regionale di Sanità Toscana, Florence, Italy

Background: During the coronavirus outbreak, a worldwide state of emergency and lockdown significantly affected the volunteer services for foreigners. The SARS-CoV-2 surveillance program was strengthened among migrants arriving in Italy. However, few screening measures for SARS-CoV2 infection have been conducted on the foreign population already p...

Fin dall’inizio della pandemia da Covid-19 la comunità scientifica ha sottolineato i rischi maggiori che le persone in condizioni di salute già compromesse o in condizioni di fragilità sociale ed economica corrono. L’Ars Toscana, utilizzando il patrimonio informativo a sua disposizione (dati su Covid-19 e flussi informativi sanitari regionali), si...

Background and Aims Aim of the present study is to determine the role of obesity as a risk factor for COronaVirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) hospitalization. Methods and Results This observational study was performed using Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) Tuscany COVID-19 database by the Agenzia Regionale Sanità (ARS), including all COVID-19 cases re...

Introduzione: la pandemia di COVID-19 costituisce un'importante sfida per i sistemi sanitari di tutto il mondo, con poco meno di 10.000 casi in Toscana e circa 4.500 in AUSL Toscana Centro all'11.05.2020. Diversi sono i fattori di rischio segnalati, tra cui età, genere maschile e alcune cronici-tà come ipertensione, diabete, malattie respiratorie e...

Introduzione La pandemia di CoViD -19 costituisce un’importante sfida per i sistemi sanitari di tutto il mondo, con poco meno di 10.000 casi in Toscana e circa 4.500 in Asl Toscana Centro all’11 maggio 2020. Diversi sono i fattori di rischio segnalati, tra cui età, sesso maschile e alcune cronicità come ipertensione, diabete, malattie respiratorie...

Introduzione Monitorare l'andamento della mortalità generale nei primi mesi del 2020 è di fondamentale importanza per valutare l'impatto dell'epidemia da Covid-19. ISTAT diffonde settimanalmente i dati di mortalità per un set di comuni subentrati nell'Anagrafe Nazionale della Popolazione Residente (ANPR). La validazione e diffusione dei dati è iniz...

AIM To evaluate this prevalence in Tuscan populations that was known and unknown to the Tuscan Regional Health Service in 2015. METHODS Tuscan Health administrative data were used to evaluate hepatitis C virus (HCV) infected people known to the Regional Health Service. Residents in Tuscany with a HCV exemption code (070.54) were identified. Using...

OBJECTIVES: to estimate the short-term impact of air pollutants on adult population of 23 Italian cities on the calendar period 2006-2009 as part of the EpiAir2 project. DESIGN, MATERIALS AND METHODS: for each city, the short-term impact of air pollution on mortality was estimated. In particular, it was calculated the number of deaths attributable...

A Regional Registry for Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias is being tested in Tuscany (Italy) to provide a basis for epidemiological studies. Current results are presented and critically evaluated. The Registry extracts data on cases of dementia from Hospital Discharge Records, Outpatient Service Records, Regional Mortality Registry and Diseas...

On a regional level, our aims were to describe rehabilitation patterns for elderly patients with stroke and hip fracture and to investigate mortality risk during the 6-month post acute period. Data sources included administrative data relative to patients aged 65+ resident in Tuscany admitted in hospital for stroke or hip fracture between 2001 and...

To describe mortality of residents in the area of Massa-Carrara for the period 1995-2000 and to compare it with mortality for the years 1990-1994. Geographical descriptive study. In the area of Massa-Carrara cause and gender specific standardized mortality ratios (SMR), adjusted for age and municipal deprivation index (reference: Tuscany Region), h...

Describing mortality of populations residing in the neighbourhoods of selected waste landfill sites and contributing to the definition of their health status. Descriptive study of mortality at municipality and aggregated municipalities level. Mortality from 1995 to 2000 in six areas of five provinces of Tuscany Region where municipal and/or hazardo...

The aim of this study was to examine the effects of mammographic screening programmes on stage-specific incidence of breast cancer. The study compared prescreening and screening periods in seven areas in Italy, primarily evaluating the first screening round. All 17617 breast cancers (16554 invasive, 1063 in situ) registered in women aged 40-79 year...

To measure stage-specific geographic and time variability of breast cancer in seven Italian areas before the onset of organized screening programs. All invasive cancers (8689 cases) arising in women aged 40-79 years during the pre-screening period 1985-1997, were considered. Multiple Poisson regression analysis was performed. About 39% of the cases...