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Outlining job descriptions of the health professions for preventive care : an exploratory study at the Local Health Authority of Milan, Italy
No full textJob descriptions are detailed descriptions of particular job positions; they are utilized to select and evaluate the personnel, but also to assess the professionals' educational needs; in fact, job descriptions identify which tasks the employee is expected to perform and his/her required characteristics. The aim of this study was to explore suitable methodologies to analyze the job positions in the health professional field, to outline specific job descriptions. More specifically, we intended to study how to outline the job descriptions of the health professions for preventive care (Public Health Nurses, PHN, and Occupational and Environmental Health Officers, OEHO ) employed at the Local Health Authority (LHA) of Milan, in order to contribute to their educational needs assessment. Data were collected in 2012 from a purposive sample of 29 professionals belonging to the population under study (PHN and OEHO employed at the LHA of Milan), and from other 7 healthcare professionals working in the staff (totally 36 participants), through two qualitative methods: focus groups and participant field observations. We used two methods of data gathering to attain triangulation, in order to increase the validity of the results. A thematic analysis was performed by two researchers on focus groups transcriptions and filed notes. A list of 26 activities performed by participants in different contexts of the LHA emerged in the focus groups; ten of those activities were studied in the field through participant observations, which confirmed what informants said in the focus groups. Concerning the methodology for data gathering to outline job descriptions, participants appreciated focus groups, since they gave them the opportunity to reflect on the activities performed at the LHA, highlighting critical aspects of those activities and therefore their educational needs. Participant field observations, conducted by a researcher belonging to the health professions for preventive care, did not encounter any resistance, but were less appreciated by participants than focus groups. From the researcher's point of view, the field observations were less efficient than focus groups. Focus groups have proven to be a valid tool to outline job descriptions of health professions for preventive care, since they are perceived not only as a method for data gathering, but also as a means to identify their educational needs. When triangulated with field observations, data gathered through focus groups enhanced their validity, but participant observations proved to be scarcely efficient. Further research is needed on instruments that allow data gathering on job descriptions to be triangulated with focus groups, such as questionnaires
APPROPRIATEZZA DEI RICOVERI OSPEDALIERI IN AMBITO ODONTOSTOMATOLOGICO SUL TERRITORIO DELL'ASL DI MILANO
No full textL'assistenza odontoiatrica in Italia viene principalmente erogata in regime libero-professionale con una spesa nazionale di 11 miliardi di euro annui (95% out of pocket) e l'87,5% dei cittadini si affida a prestazioni odontoiatriche private. Gli odontoiatri pubblici sono circa 3.457 mentre la stima degli odontoiatri operanti nel territorio nazionale è di 53.526. La più frequente patologia odontoiatrica, la carie, colpisce l'88,2% dei giovani (età 19-25 anni) mentre l'edentulia, già presente nell'11% nei minori di 14 anni, raggiunge il 60% nella popolazione anziana. Il DPCM del 29/11/2001 che definisce i criteri per la determinazione dei livelli essenziali di assistenza (LEA) garantisce l'assistenza odontoiatrica erogabile con il SSN secondo specifiche indicazioni e a tutti i cittadini solo le visite odontoiatriche per la diagnosi precoce di neoplasie del cavo orale e il trattamento delle urgenze odontostomatologiche. In Regione Lombardia la DGR 3111/2006 indica come aventi diritto ai LEA in regime ambulatoriale alcuni gruppi di popolazione (esclusivamente residenti in Lombardia) secondo determinati criteri clinici e socio-economici . L'obiettivo di questo studio è di analizzare la produzione odontostomatologica in regime di ricovero ordinario o di day-hospital, in strutture sanitarie di ricovero e cura pubbliche e private accreditate sul territorio milanese per valutare la correttezza di codifica delle relative Schede di Dimissione Ospedaliera (SDO) e l'appropriatezza del regime di ricovero (ordinario/DH vs ambulatoriale), nonché di confrontare l'appropriatezza dell'erogazione delle prestazioni stesse tramite SSR con i criteri previsti dai LEA
Le emergenze : un progetto di primo soccorso rivolto agli studenti delle scuole primarie e secondarie superiori
No full textThe authors describe the planning, making and evaluation of a project aimed at primary school students attending their 4th year and at secondary school students attending their 5th year designed to promote first aid procedures in emergency situations. An educational video has been filmed to support these projects
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
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
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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