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    Students for the right to health: participatory action-research to evaluate irregular migrants' healthcare services

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    The primary objective of this project was to create a map of healthcare services aimed at irregular migrants provided by the local health units (ASL) in Rome, and to promote its use. The project was coordinated by the Sapienza University and the Caritas Diocesana of Rome. Our secondary goal was training and increase the awareness of medical and social work students on migration medicine (MM) and Global Health (GH). The project was conducted from 2012 to 2014 and involved 22 students. The participants were asked to visit the ASLs and interview the healthcare workers. We chose a participatory approach based on field experience. Students were the main researchers and through this approach, they learnt the meaning of right to health; inequality and the social determinants of health. Students used a semi-structured questionnaire to interview healthcare workers. They also used a diary in which they wrote about their experiences. The subsequent analysis of the collected data was used to create a map of the healthcare services available to irregular migrants in Rome. This map includes addresses and opening hours of healthcare services considered useful to facilitate the access of foreigners to such services. At the end of 2014, the map was presented and distributed to the h e a l t h c a r e w o r k e r s i n v o l v e d . In the current global scenario, in which a key role is played by the phenomenon of migration, social issues are gaining more and more importance in health- and disease-related processes (social determinants of health). A sociologic analysis of the personal diaries highlighted the large portion of health education that is still based on a biologically-centered medical practice, characterized by professional individualism and more geared towards taking care of diseases rather than the affected people. The students involved in this study learned how protecting migrants' health means, first and foremost, to defend the inalienable right to health, and to enhance their own awareness through empowermen

    Global health education for medical students in Italy

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    Background: Global health education (GHE) in Italy has spread since the first decade of 21st century. The presence of global health (GH) courses in Italy was monitored from 2007 to 2013. In 2019, a new survey was proposed to assess the availability of educational opportunities in Italian medical schools. Methods: An online survey was carried out using a questionnaire administered to a network of interested individuals with different roles in the academic world: students, professors, and members of the Italian Network for Global Health Education. The features of courses were analysed through a score. Results: A total of 61 responses were received from affiliates of 33 out of the 44 medical schools in Italy. The national mean of GH courses for each faculty was 1.2, reflecting an increase from 2007. The courses increased nationwide, resulting in a dispersed GHE presence in northern, central and southern Italy. One of the most critical points was related to the nature of “elective” courses, which were not mandatory in the curricula. Enrollees tended to be students genuinely interested in GH issues. Some community and service-learning experiences, referred to as GH gyms, were also detected at national and international levels. Conclusions: GHE has spreading in Italy in line with the vision of the Italian Network for Global Health Education. Although progress has been made to disperse GH courses around the country, more academic commitment is needed to include GH in the mandatory curricula of medical schools and other health faculties

    Responsabilità sociale, salute e formazione in medicina. La proposta della RIISG e un'esperienza con i richiedenti protezione internazionale e rifugiati presso la Sapienza Università di Roma.

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    The situations of crisis and social injustice of the globalized world call the people who deal with education in health to think again about the educational model of medical schools. The objective should be to capacitate social and health professionals to face with responsibility the challenges that wait them. On this point, the Italian Network for Global Health Education (RIISG) has recently published a document in which it express its contribution to the recent national debate about medical education. Experiences which allow a direct knowledge of realities on the fringe of society, as the one which takes place with asylum seekers and refugees at Sapienza University of Rome, can contribute to develop student's critical reasoning and ethical conduct

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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
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