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PUBLIC E-HEALTH: THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNET ON THE WORLD OF HEALTH
No full textThe interconnectivity determined by the World Wide Web is a motor of change that has affected the very essence of modern society, and this sociological change is ultimately influencing the health sector. In this perspective, it is important to assess how the Internet has affected the health world thus far. Subsequently, we can try to identify the criticalities and the potential of these changes, and how this process could develop.
The aim of this research thesis was to establish how the Internet has changed and is likely to change health, taking into account the public health implications. In order to do this, we systematized the many strands of research concerning the effects of the Internet on public health, analyzing the issue from the perspective of the three actors identified: citizens, health professionals and health organizations.
The evidence we found during this research shows that public health has already become “public e-health”: huge changes have occurred in the way people deal with their health and with health professionals and organizations. This is why we will have to change the policies that guide us in disciplines such as health and medicine as technology becomes part of our lives. In conclusion, it seems sensible to promote a new role for public health in the era of the Internet: public health should also be the discipline that allows medicine to win the challenge posed by the information overload of our era, in view of defending knowledge and striving continuously to achieve wisdom
Polluted online information? Surfing Italian websites dealing with the topic of waste and health
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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
Use of information systems for managing healthcare services in a long-term care facility
No full textThe aim of this study was to evaluate the use of a patient data management information system in a long-term care facility in Brescia (Italy). A survey was conducted among the facility's nursing staff to investigate work organization and identify critical areas that could be improved through the implementation of an information system. A specific patient data management system was then developed and performance indicators were identified. Performance indicators were measured before implementation and then at 6 and 30 months. Managing daily patient healthcare through the use of an information system has allowed an improvement of the appropriateness and quality of care, as well as improved efficiency by saving valuable nursing time
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 world of e-patients : a content analysis of online social networks focusing on diseases
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