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Linking Community Care and Health Care: A New Role for Secondary Health Care Services
No full textThe provision of effective long-term care at home for frail older people requires planned and coordinated inputs from health and social care agencies. This is evident from a range of research studies (see, for example, Challis et al., 1995) which indicate the interplay between social care needs and clinical phenomena, and which have been reinforced by policy guidance. For example, although the level of functional impairment is an important influence upon the probability of placement in residential settings, so too is the presence of certain diagnoses (Tsuji et al., 1995; Darton et al., 1997). Rockwood et al. (1996) found that entry to a long-term care facility was associated not only with social factors and functional difficulties, such as female gender, being unmarried, the absence of a caregiver, the presence of cognitive impairment and functional impairment, but also with clinical diagnoses, such as diabetes mellitus, stroke and Parkinson's disease. They concluded that frailty is multidimensional and not simply a synonym for dependence in activities of daily living. Furthermore, the importance of the psychosocial needs of older people and their carers as determinants of placement has been identified in several studies (Jorm et al., 1993; Tsuji et al., 1995). For some individuals, particularly those with complex needs, a primary health care-led NHS may be insufficient, lacking both the range and depth of response necessary. The key question, therefore, is how to combine what kinds of inputs, whether primary or secondary, health or social, for which individuals, in what ways
The Darlington Study: Findings and Lessons for Care Management, Health Care and Community Care
No full textThis chapter has two aims. First, to summarise some of the key findings from the Darlington study in order to set the context for the rest of this book. Second, to identify some of the potential areas of development for the future of community care that are offered by these findings and this approach to care management. Thus, it links with the themes developed in the other chapters of this book. The relevance of this study is the way in which it highlights the importance of refocusing aspects of assessment and care management for the future development of community care and its relationship with health
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
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