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A co-design approach for the development of a mHealth solution to support the first 1000 days of life
Full text linkTo support the first 1000 days of life, it is essential to develop tools that meet the needs of expectant and new parents, as well as the expectations of health professionals and healthcare institutions. To incorporate the perspectives of all stakeholders, we used a participatory design approach by 1) identifying and analyzing the needs of primary (expectant and new parents), secondary (health professionals), and tertiary (healthcare institutions) users; 2) brainstorming and prototyping telehealth tools; 3) testing and refining the prototypes; and 4) evaluating their implementation. Exploring the IRCSS Burlo Garofolo’s perspective allowed us to highlight the urgent need to better inform and empower patients and families. We studied the views of health professionals and expectant and new parents while developing a digital ecosystem in parallel. We found that both primary and secondary users generally agreed with the proposed solution. A randomized controlled trial is currently underway to test the effectiveness of the digital ecosystem in supporting the first 1000 days of life. Implementing such a co-design approach was essential for the development of an appropriate and tailored mHealth solution for maternal and child health. The close synergy between the expertise of public health institutions and their professionals with technology developers and innovation accelerators and promoters is crucial for the development of a mHealth tool that can effectively support all stakeholders during the crucial time of the first 1000 days of life and ultimately ensure better and more equal outcomes for both mother and child.To support the first 1000 days of life, it is essential to develop tools that meet the needs of expectant and new parents, as well as the expectations of health professionals and healthcare institutions. To incorporate the perspectives of all stakeholders, we used a participatory design approach by 1) identifying and analyzing the needs of primary (expectant and new parents), secondary (health professionals), and tertiary (healthcare institutions) users; 2) brainstorming and prototyping telehealth tools; 3) testing and refining the prototypes; and 4) evaluating their implementation. Exploring the IRCSS Burlo Garofolo’s perspective allowed us to highlight the urgent need to better inform and empower patients and families. We studied the views of health professionals and expectant and new parents while developing a digital ecosystem in parallel. We found that both primary and secondary users generally agreed with the proposed solution. A randomized controlled trial is currently underway to test the effectiveness of the digital ecosystem in supporting the first 1000 days of life. Implementing such a co-design approach was essential for the development of an appropriate and tailored mHealth solution for maternal and child health. The close synergy between the expertise of public health institutions and their professionals with technology developers and innovation accelerators and promoters is crucial for the development of a mHealth tool that can effectively support all stakeholders during the crucial time of the first 1000 days of life and ultimately ensure better and more equal outcomes for both mother and child
Il costrutto di desiderio sessuale nella sessuologia scientifica
No full textThe construct of desire is broad and was addressed from the beginning of sexological
research.
It constitutes the first phase of sexual response cycle in the linear model and a component
of sexuality in the circular one. It has psychological, biological, and socio-cultural
components. From a biological point of view, it is mainly influenced by sex hormones
and endorphins, as well as by the limbic system, as well as by the physical
health of both oneself and one’s partner. From the psychological point of view, it is affected
by intrapsychic and relational situations, while from the cultural point of view, it
is affected by regulatory stances and related to gender roles. This is why describing
it, studying it, and measuring it is extremely difficult. An appropriate measure tool is
the Sexual Desire Inventory
Sexually transmitted infections and the HPV-related burden: evolution of Italian epidemiology and policy
Full text linkSexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a major public health problem worldwide, with a high prevalence between the ages of 15 and 25 in most Western countries. High notification rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis are reported in the WHO European Region, with differences between countries. In Italy, the total number of STIs alerts increased by 18% from 2020 to 2021. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection; globally one in seven women is infected by this virus, and certain sexual behaviors are important risk factors for HPV-related cancers, particularly cervical cancer (CC), anogenital cancers and cancers of the head and neck. The burden of CC is relevant worldwide, in particular in Europe CC is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women aged 15–44. This HPV-related tumor is preventable through a combined strategy of vaccination and screening for precursor lesions. In Italy, the coverage of organized screening varies from region to region and the average HPV vaccination rate is still far from the expected optimal threshold of 95% at the age of 12. To address the challenges of health promotion and HPV prevention, priority actions are needed such as: promoting education and information at every level, from schools to healthcare professionals. In Italy, education of adolescents on sexual and reproductive health, still remains critical, regionally inhomogeneous and much lower than in other European countries. Equitable measures need to be taken, and schools are an important place for health promotion activities
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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