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Compliance with vaccination schedules
No full textChildhood immunization is amongst the most cost-effective public health interventions for reducing children’s morbidity and mortality. Vaccination coverage is commonly used to assess the vaccination status of a community. Adherence to schedule is critical for providing maximum effectiveness against vaccine-preventable diseases in the community. This is of paramount importance for diseases that are continuously circulating because they can cause large outbreaks. All stakeholders (public health administrators and vaccination providers) should work together in order to increase both vaccination coverage and adherence to schedule. They have to improve the infrastructure used for delivering vaccines, train the health care professionals and finally raise the awareness of the importance of vaccines among parents
Co-constructing effective collective intelligence networks in rare diseases: a mixed method approach to identify the parameters that matter for patients, professionals and policy-makers, piloted in Cyprus
No full textAbstract Background Rare diseases are a particular field of public health that is characterized by scattered, often insufficient knowledge and infrastructure. The scarcity of specialized knowledge often forces clinicians and patients to an incomplete picture of the diseases and their associated risks. Effective person-centred networks appear promising for solving such real world and life-defining problems by purposely sourcing expert knowledge that is geographically-dispersed. The design and implementation of the RARE-e-CONNECT network technology is described. The project was funded to create collaborative spaces for the development of international partnerships in Cyprus’ healthcare, promoting the dissemination of expert knowledge on rare diseases while saving resources through teleconsultation. Parameters that matter for patients, providers and policy-makers through the RARE-e-CONNECT experience were evaluated through a participatory mixed-method approach, consisting of (1) a needs assessment survey with 27 patients/families and 26 healthcare professionals at the two referral hospitals for the diagnosis and management of rare diseases in Cyprus; (2) interviews with 40 patients, families and patient representatives, as well as 37 clinicians and laboratory scientists, including national ERN coordinators/members; (3) activity metrics from 210 healthcare professionals and 251 patients/families/patient representatives who participated on the platform at the time of the research. Results Our results indicate usage and intention by both healthcare professionals and patients/families to openly provide decentralized specialized information for raising suspicion amongst clinicians to facilitate the necessary referrals, as well as peer to peer psychosocial support to help cope with the everyday challenges of living with the disease. User behavior was largely affected by the prevailing social norm favoring individual practice, as well as missing policies for telemedicine and shared care. This article discusses how telehealth is inextricably linked to social, cultural, organizational, technological and policy factors affecting uptake. Conclusions We argue that collective intelligence tools need to be formally considered and work hand in hand with national and European policies/regulatory frameworks to promote proactiveness amongst the healthcare community with regard to the timely diagnosis of rare diseases and the facilitation of patients’ pathway to specialists. Collaborative channels between countries need to be established to source collective intelligence on complex cases and save resources through teleconsultation/telementoring
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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