IMHA-Research self-rated health risk factors at sea - multicenter project/Surveillance of health examinations and indicators for repatriation

The study populations
The study populations include: the repatriated seafarers over 5 years from seafarers health pre-embarcation files in different maritime clinics in different countries

The research questions
Which were the repatriation diagnoses and pts conditions

The project objectives

 * 1) To study the relation between the pre-embarcation clinical data and the repatriation diagnosis and prognosis, inclusive mental health problems
 * 2) How many of the pre-ambarcation tests were useful as predictors
 * 3) Could any other diagnostic test be useful in a reprospective way?

Project methodology

 * 1) The review studies with the main diagnoses for repatriation
 * 2) The case-control study design is selected as the most adequate design as this is rare incidents
 * 3) To be continued ...