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Professionalizing health promotion? Some reflections from the European context. [¿Profesionalizar la promoción de la salud? Algunas reflexiones desde el contexto europeo]
No full textProfessionalising health promotion? Reflections from the European context P. Contu Globalisation has not only had economic and financial repercussions, but has also impacted the social, cultural and education spheres. One of these effects is the development of processes to achieve accreditation of academic programmes, and the regulation of certified professionals in various fields including public health and health promotion. The work presented here reflects on challenges the health promotion field faces in the European continent. These efforts present data on undergraduate training in health promotion as perceived by autonomous professionals and on the definition of core competencies in health promotion that would be integrated in curricula for training distinct types of workforces. Finally, we present the CompHP project that endeavoured to contribute to the strengthening of an identity for European professionals who work in health promotion, and its recognition in the labour market. (Global Health Promotion, 2012; 19(4): 88-90
The Sense of Coherence: Measurement Issues
No full textIn this chapter, measurement issues are addressed concerning Aaron Antonovsky’s original sense of coherence (SOC) questionnaires of 29 items and of 13 items, as well as several modified translations applicable to the individual, the family, the organization, and the community levels. Validity (face, construct, consensual, criterion, predictive) and reliability issues (test-retest, internal consistency) of the scales are discussed. Criticism of the original scales is deliberated
Le aree extraurbane nei recenti strumenti urbanistici della Sardegna. Tendenze contenuti obiettivi dei Piani urbanistici provinciali (Pup) e comunali (Puc)
No full textGoing 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
The management of oral anticoagulant therapy: the patient's point of view
No full textThe aims of this study were to investigate on the general adhesion of the patients to oral anticoagulant therapy, and particularly on the quality of life of our patients, the doctor-patient relationship and the Centre-patient relationship. For this purpose we administered a questionnaire containing 17 main questions each with a maximum of 4 secondary questions. The questionnaire was administered to two groups of 127 and 137 oral anticoagulated patients (127 males and 137 females, mean age 55 +/- 19 years), followed at two Anticoagulation Clinics, in two Italian cities, Cagliari (Sardinia) and Padua (North East Italy). The cities differed in the number of patients monitored and the management modalities of anticoagulation. The results show that oral anticoagulant therapy does not limit the life-style of the patients. Only 11% of the patients complain of limitations to their daily life. Fifty-two percent believe their health has improved, and 87% are not afraid of negative consequences. The doctor-patient relationship is considered very important by 96% of patients. Seventy-eight percent refer to the Anticoagulation Clinic also for other health problems, 93% consider it important to be assessed by the doctor at the Anticoagulation Clinic, while 83% believe the doctor should always hand out the results personally. We conclude that in general oral anticoagulant therapy is accepted by the majority of patients, in spite of the need for periodic monitoring. The doctor-patient relationship should be taken into account, even in the case of a monitored, computer-assisted method of dose-adjustment
Criteri di prestazione e sostenibilità: verso un metodo di valutazione dello sviluppo turistico locale
No full textComunicare la valutazione per le politiche di recupero urbano. Il progetto di paesaggi informativi per lo sviluppo di un parco archeologico e ambientale a Cagliari
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