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Difficulties in accessing health services and the avoidance of medical care during covid-19 pandemic: The experience on italian the elderly population
No full textMonitoring cardiovascular diseases and associated risk factors in the adult population to better orient prevention strategies in Italy
No full textIntroduction. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the first cause of death in Europe and over the world. This study analyses health-related behaviours in adults referring doctorMaterials and methods. We used data from the Italian cross-sectional Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance System PASSI gathered in 2015-2018. Complex survey design analyses included the Taylor series method for variance estimation and Poisson regression for associations between socio-demographic characteristics and CVD. Results. Among 132,598 respondents, the prevalence of doctor-diagnosed CVD was 5%. Higher percentages are observed among: men, older individuals, socioeconomically disadvantaged people. Compared to the general population, people with CVD have greater risk and aggravating factors, and a worse health status overall. All protective behaviors and lifestyles shall be improved. Discussion and conclusions. In Italy, adults with CVD are more likely to be exposed to aggravating modifiable risk factors: it represents a valuable information for increased preventive interventions, even more in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic scenario
P06-08 Socio-demographic profile of physically inactive adults living in Italy according to the PASSI data
No full textBACKGROUND: Insufficient physical activity (PA) or physical inactivity (PI) is one of the ten leading risk factors for global mortality. PI leads to 20-30% increased risk of all-cause mortality and monitoring its current levels and trends in general population is essential to track progress towards health targets, identify at-risk groups, assess policies' effectiveness, guide future planning. METHODS: PASSI (Progressi delle Aziende Sanitarie per la Salute in Italia - Progresses in ASSessing adult population health in Italy) is an ongoing cross-sectional Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) that monitors prevalence and temporal trends for the major modifiable health-related risk factors in the adults (18-69 years) residing in Italy. Data are collected in the Local Health Units (LHU) by trained personnel who administer a standardized questionnaire telephonically to sampled people. In the period 2015-2018, 132,717 people were interviewed in more of 90% LHUs (89 out of 101 in 2018), achieving a response rate above 80%. Concerning PA/PI, respondents are classified as per the WHO indicators in: (i) Active - basing on levels achieved in leisure time and/or heavy work; (ii) Partially active - in leisure time and/or moderate work or in spare time and without regular work; (iii) Inactive - in leisure time with sedentary work or in spare time and without regular work. PASSI calculates prevalence of PA/PI overall and by socio-demographic characteristics, including 95% confidence intervals (CI), and a logistic regression model estimates adjusted prevalence ratios (APR). RESULTS: In Italy, 28.8% (CI95%:28.5-29.1%) of adult population is featured by a sedentary lifestyle: PI is greater among women (32.4% vs. 25.1%; APR: 1.26), grows with age (34% in over50 vs. 24.7% among 18-34 year-old; APR: 1.34), is higher among deprived people both per economic difficulties (41.7% if many vs. 22.4% if none; APR: 1.39) and for education level (23.7% university vs. 47.2% primary/any; APR: 1.33). We observed a highly evident geographic gradient: PI amounts to 18.3% in the North, 25.2% in the Centre and 40.6% in the South. A multivariate analysis confirms these values are statistically significant. CONCLUSIONS: PASSI data provide strong evidence to support community prevention interventions on territorial planning or advice by health professionals
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
Influenza Vaccination Uptake and Prognostic Factors among Health Professionals in Italy: Results from the Nationwide Surveillance PASSI 2015–2018
Get PDF(1) Influenza causes a significant health and socio-economic burden every year, and health personnel (HP) are at higher risk of exposure to respiratory pathogens than the general population. (2) The study's purpose was to describe and compare influenza vaccine uptake and its prognostic factors among Medical Doctors (MDs) and Non-Medical Health Personnel (NMHP) vs. Non-HP (NHP). We analyzed 2014-2018 data (n = 105,608) from the Italian Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System PASSI that, since 2008, has been collecting health-related information continuously in sampled adults. (3) MDs and NMHP represented, respectively, 1.1% and 4.6% of the sample. Among HP, 22.8% (CI 19.8-26.1%) of MDs and 8.5% (CI 7.5-9.5%) of NMHP reported to have been vaccinated vs. 6.3% (CI 6.1-6.5%) in NHP. This difference is confirmed in the three categories (MDs, NMHP, NHP), even more across age groups: in 18-34 yy, respectively, 9.9%, 4.4%, 3.4% vs. 28.4%, 13.9%, 10.6% in 50-64 yy. PASSI surveillance shows an increasing influenza vaccination uptake over time, especially among MDs (22.2% in 2014 vs. 30.5% in 2018). (4) Despite such an increase, especially among younger HP, influenza vaccination uptake is low. Even more under pandemic scenarios, these figures represent key information to address effective strategies for disease prevention and health promotion
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
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