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A decade of monitoring primary healthcare experiences through the Lens of inequality
Get PDFFil: Pasarín, Isabel. Agencia de Salud Pública de Barcelona; España.Fil: Rodríguez Sanz, Maica. Agencia de Salud Pública de Barcelona; España.Fil: Berra, Silvina del Valle. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina.Fil: Berra, Silvina del Valle. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad; Argentina.Fil: Borrell, Carme. Agencia de Salud Pública de Barcelona; España.Fil: Rocha, Kátia. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Facultad de Psicología. Departamento de Psicología Social y Metodología; España.Background: Health care is not exempt from harboring social inequalities, including in those countries with a universal public system. The objective was to ascertain whether the population’s assessment of primary care (PC) changed between 2006 and 2016, the decade that included the economic crisis of 2008, and also if it exhibited patterns of social inequality in Barcelona (Spain).
Methods: This was a cross-sectional study using Barcelona Health Surveys 2006 and 2016. Samples (4027 and 3082 respectively) comprised residents in Barcelona, over 15 years old. Dependent variable:Primary Care (PC) index. Independent variables: age, social class, and birthplace. Analyses included means and percentiles of PC index, and Somers’ D test to compare the distribution of the groups.
Results: Comparing 2016 with 2006, the distribution of the PC index remained in women (median of 73.3) and improved in men (from 70 to 73.3). By social class, the pattern of inequality observed in 2006 in men with perceived poor health status disappeared in 2016. Inequalities according to birthplace persisted in women, regardless of perceived health status, but disappeared in men.
Conclusions: In the 10 years between which the global economic crisis occurred, the assessment of PC did not worsen, and it did improve for men, but the study points to the need for more focus on people born abroad.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionFil: Pasarín, Isabel. Agencia de Salud Pública de Barcelona; España.Fil: Rodríguez Sanz, Maica. Agencia de Salud Pública de Barcelona; España.Fil: Berra, Silvina del Valle. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina.Fil: Berra, Silvina del Valle. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad; Argentina.Fil: Borrell, Carme. Agencia de Salud Pública de Barcelona; España.Fil: Rocha, Kátia. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Facultad de Psicología. Departamento de Psicología Social y Metodología; España
Análisis de desigualdades en mortalidad en áreas pequeñas: queda camino por recorrer
No full textResumenEn las Islas Baleares no existe ningún informe que analice detalladamente posibles patrones de desigualdades en mortalidad en áreas pequeñas. Por ello, se pretendió realizar un atlas de mortalidad a partir de la geocodificación de los registros de mortalidad y observar posibles patrones. Sin embargo, el proceso de obtención de los datos necesarios para la realización del atlas puso de manifiesto una serie de problemas metodológicos que se presentan en esta nota. Estos problemas se centran en la falta de una unidad geográfica pequeña constante en el tiempo, la dificultad de obtener la población por edad y sexo por sección censal en el periodo de estudio, la calidad de la cartografía y la falta de normalización de los datos recogidos en el Boletín Estadístico de Defunción. Los problemas metodológicos derivados de este proceso deben tenerse en cuenta en futuros trabajos con características similares.AbstractNo analyses have been performed in the Balearic Islands (Spain) to assess health inequalities in mortality in small areas. The objective of this study was to construct a mortality atlas using geocoding of mortality records. During this process, several problems were encountered, which are summarized in this article. These problems were based on the lack of stable small geographical areas, difficulties in obtaining the population for small areas divided by age and sex for the study period, problems with the quality of the cartography, and the poor quality of the mortality records. The methodological problems identified in this process should be considered in future studies
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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