IMHA-Research self-rated health risk factors at sea - multicenter project/Cinical data and indicators for repatriation

The research questions

 * 1) How is the development over time of the clinical data values ?
 * 2) Are there any valid clinical indicators to be used for preventing repatriation?

Objectives

 * 1) To monitor the trends of the basic clinical data from the health examinations
 * 2) To find clinical tests with high sensitivity and predictive value for +/- being repatriated

Project methodology

 * 1) Monitoring of the clinical data in different countries in cross-sectional design as student projects
 * 2) The case-control study design is selected and repatriation data from the maritime authorities

The study populations

 * 1) Samples of clinical data from health examinations in different clinics
 * 2) Samples of repatriated seafarers in different maritime clinics