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Towards Universal Health Coverage: the Chilean experience. World Health Report (2010) Background Paper, 4
No full textNotwithstanding good average health indicators, Chile
has a poor ranking in terms of economic equality. In
the last decades the epidemiological profile has changed substantially posing new challenges to the health-care system. As a result of reforms introduced during the military regime, the Chilean healthcare system is structurally segmented with low-income, high-risk populations being served mainly by the public sector and high-income, low-risk populations generally being treated in the private sector. A drastic intervention of public health policies was required. With the return to democracy, initial interventions were directed to capital investments in the health sector, improvement of primary care and tighter regulation of the private sector. Beginning in 2000, a new set of reforms was proposed focussing on patients' rights and guarantees and
increased equity in the financing system. The main result of the new legislation was the introduction of the AUGE Plan, a regime of explicit guarantees (access to treatment, opportunity, quality and financial protection) applied to a list of prioritized conditions progressively increased from 25 to 66. The identification of pathologies to be included was done through an ad hoc defined algorithm including criteria such as
magnitude of the problem, effectiveness of available medical treatment, capacity of the healthcare system, costs and social consensus. The AUGE plan benefited both the subscribers of the public as well as the private systems. To cover the cost of the reform additional resources were identified, mainly in the form of a temporary increase in the consumer tax. The reform had to face numerous challenges during the
parliamentary debate and was finally approved with some significant compromises. Several unresolved issues have been identified by scholars and social actors, and represent future challenges from ethical, methodological, organizational, quality-related, financial, as well as social and political perspectives. Solutions, however, may now lead away
from the solidarity perspective at a moment in which Chile is facing a significant political transition led by a centre-right coalition
Universal access plan with explicit guarantees: the Chilean way.
No full textDescribes the Chilean approach to Universal health coverage and teh Reforms put in place to that en
Piano di accesso universale con esplicite garanzie: il caso cileno.
No full textSi tratta dell'analis delle riforma messa in atto in Cile per estendere le garanzie delle cure a tutta la poplazione con l'obiettivo di universalizzare l'accesso ai servizi sanitari
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
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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