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EVOLUTION OF LABOR MARKET AND OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE IN A CHANGING WORLD: ANALYSIS OF THE ITALIAN DATA 2000-2019 AND POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE SARS-COV-2 PANDEMIC EMERGENCY
No full textIntroduction: The first two decades of the third millennium have been characterized by deep economic changes in various countries around the world with an inevitable impact on the job market. The aim of this study is to analyze the data of the last twenty years relating to employment in Italy, compared with European ones, to understand how the 2008 economic crisis affected employment
in the following years and how the recent crisis, related to the COVID 19- pandemic emergency, may contribute further.
Methods: The study analysed data related to the labor market in Italy and in the European Countries. The 2000-2019 period was analytically evaluated by comparing employment and unemployment rates, and contractual typology. The average annual percent changes (AAPC) of the trends were evaluated from join-point regression analysis.
Results and discussion: From 2000 to 2019 the Italian population showed a substantial growth with an increase of +6.03%, almost due to the increase of foreign. The employment rate in Italy (age 15-64) has grown from 55.5% to 59.1% with three different
trends: 2000-2007 (AAPC=+0.6%, p<0.001), 2007-2013 (AAPC= -1.4%, p<0.001) and 2013-2020 (AAPC =+1.5%, p=0.006). Yearly Italian occupation rates were lower than that observed in Europe (on average -7.57% with range -4.9% in 2004 and 10.2% in 2019).
Conclusions: Our data suggest that the 2008 crisis and COVID-19 pandemic could have contributed to the impoverishment of Italy and other European Countries. These changes could have had a deep impact also in the health of the general population and workers, changing the work-related risk perspective
Riemergenza del poliovirus ed implicazioni per la vaccinazione anti-poliovirus in Italia
Full text linkNel 1988, l’Organizzazione mondiale
della Sanità (OMS) ha approvato il piano
di eradicazione mondiale della poliomielite
con l’obiettivo di annullare
la circolazione del virus a partire dall’anno
2000. Tale target, per motivi
economici, organizzativi, culturali,
bellici e financo religiosi, è stato successivamente
spostato in avanti negli
anni fino a giungere attualmente al
2015.
A seguito di questo impegno, negli anni
si è registrata una riduzione dell’incidenza
di poliomielite di oltre il 99%,
passando dai 350.000 casi annui di polio
paralitica documentati nel 1988 in
125 paesi, alle poche centinaia di casi
riscontrati nel 2013 sia negli ultimi 3
paesi endemici (Nigeria, Afghanistan,
Pakistan) sia in paesi polio-free spesso
confinanti con quelli endemici ed interessati
da un corollario di epidemie di
dimensioni variabili
Evaluation of varicella vaccine effectiveness as public health tool for increasing scientific evidence and improving vaccination programs
Full text linkBrazil; Chickenpox Vaccine; Humans; Immunization Programs; Public Health; Vaccination; Chickenpox; Viral Vaccines
Presentazione a L’etica come fondamento. Scritti in onore di Giuseppe Lissa
No full textL'etica come fondamento è una serie di contributi ddedicati a Giuseppe Liss
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection among Students of Healthcare Professions and Postgraduates of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Palermo
Full text linkIntroduction and objective: Italy is a country with a low incidence of tuberculosis and in the last fifty years the annual number of TB cases decreased from 12,247 to 4,418, showing a reduction of approximately 64% in the number of cases and 71% in incidence. Despite of this encouraging trend, in the last years the epidemiology of tuberculosis changed and today it is a re-emerging infectious. The aim of this study is to measure the prevalence of positivity to tuberculosis infection (latent TB) in students, without any obvious manifestation of disease, attending degree courses of the health care professions and postgraduate medical courses of the School of Medicine of the University of Palermo, Italy.
Materials and methods: A cross-sectional observational study in students of nursing, midwifery, dentistry degree courses and in resident physicians of postgraduate medical schools was carried out from January 2012 to July 2016.
Mantoux test was performed and all positive cases were tested with Interferon-Gamma Release Assay (IGRA).
Results: Of the 1,351 subjects evaluated, 25 (1.8%) resulted positive to Mantoux test; in 17 students (1.2%) the diagnosis was confirmed with IGRA. Positive cases were significantly more frequent among students attending Postgraduated Medical School Courses (p<0.001) and were older than negative cases (p<0.001).
Conclusion: This study suggests that in our geographic area, latent TB shows a relatively low prevalence among students of medical schools. Despite of this evidence, and considering that several students have been found to be
positive for TB, this infectious disease has to be considered a re-emerging biohazard that requires preventive strategies for the containment of the risk in exposed workers as well as in the general population
Outbreak of Novel Coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2): First Evidences From International Scientific Literature and Pending Questions
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