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Engaging patients in health management: Towards a preliminary theoretical conceptualization
No full textEngaging patients in their own healthcare is now widely acknowledged as a critical ingredient for high-performance health systems as it may improve quality of care and reduce service delivery costs. However, despite the increasing debate about "patient engagement" (PE), this phenomenon remains conceptually and empirically under-developed, often used as a synonymous of other terms such as patient involvement or patient participation. In order to contribute to the conceptual foundation of PE, the aims of this study are twofold: 1. mapping the current trend of peer reviewed literature about engagement in health in terms of time frames, disciplinary perspectives, countries more active in the debate, terms mainly used to connote individuals in the care process; 2. detecting, comparing and synthesizing the main definitions that are currently orienting the literature debate, by casting light on theoretical gaps and suggesting potential lines for future research development. The keywords "patient engagement" OR "consumer engagement" OR "client engagement" OR "citizen engagement" were searched using databases more likely to cover the core research publication in health issues (PubMed/Ovid MEDLINE; Ovid PsycInfo; SCOPUS), within the peer-reviewed literature in the years 2000-2013. We conducted both bibliometric analysis and qualitative content analysis on a sub-sample constituted by the only studies that provided a definition of engagement. Out of 1286 papers initially retrieved, only 753 resulted pertinent because explicitly concerning "patient engagement". Furthermore, out of them only 16 contributes attempted to provide a definition of PE as an autonomous concept. However, these definitions are fragmented and various depending on the disciplinary landmarks to which authors belong. Furthermore, among the contributes that attempt a specific conceptualization of PE, the frameworks provided appear often partial, merely taxonomic and not able to cast light on the dynamic nature of engagement. Basing on these results, we suggest to look at engagement as an evolving concept that needs for a recover of an "ecological" foundation, mainly rooted in the deeper analysis of patients' perspectives, and finalized to provide insights about this process drivers at the individuals, relational, and organizational levels
I giovani e lo scambio sociale sull'AIDS: le conoscenze, le rappresentazioni, gli orientamenti di prevenzione
No full textA transdisciplinary scenario for health: A new paradigm for psychology and psychologists?
No full textA new transdisciplinary approach to health (TDH) based on the participatory involvement of multiple disciplines and multiple actors (scientific and lay) in the construction of answers to social questions of health is affirmed in the scientific field. After describing the phenomenon of TDH in its main features (historical, theoretical, methodological) open questions and perspectives that this approach presents are here focused on. Finally, the reasons for a participatory involvement of psychology and psychologists in the TDH approach are argued
In dialogo con gli interventi sull'articolo: "uno scenario transdisciplinare sulla salute: nuovo paradigma per la psicologia e gli psicologi?"
No full textThe Authors reply to the contributions on the target article "A transdisciplinary scenario on health: A paradigm for psychology and psychologists?" underlining the development of two thematic lines of reflection. On the one hand, there is a deepening of the reasons in favor of a transdisciplinary approach to health and in favor of a commitment of psychology in this sense. On the other hand, a series of "open questions" are discussed that psychology is called upon to tackle in the near future if it is aimed to orient its development in a transdisciplinary perspective. Both lines are considered essential for a verification of the viability of the transdisciplinary scenario by health psychology
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
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