A Longitudinal Health Care Study: International versus Domestic Students

Abstract

The authors reviewed 96,804 diagnoses from student visits to the University of Southern California Student Health Center during a three-year period. The diagnoses coded for international students were compared to those for domestic students. More than 50 disease entities were found to be significantly increased while 30 were significantly decreased in international students when compared to domestic students. Further analysis of the diagnoses that may be stress related revealed a greater proportion of those problems among international students.