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De la géographie des grandes endémies à la géographie de la santé et à la géographie tout court : vingt ans de travaux de l'ORSTOM en Afrique.
No full textFrom Geography of Great Endemic Diseases to Geography of Health and to Geography : Twenty Years of orstom's Research in Africa.
From the studies on the great endemic diseases to the analysis of the relationships between urbanization and health, research into geography of health has always been a main theme of the work run in Africa by the ORSTOM researchers. But, far from being an independent discipline, geography of health has always been asserting itself only as a way of doing geography : geography of great endemic diseases cannot be isolated from human occupation forms, as differential health conditions are linked to spatial segregation forms and to territorialization. In return, geographers' processes and methodologies are contributing to decisive progress in epidemiological study on health problems in the developing countries.Des études sur les grandes endémies à l'analyse des relations entre urbanisation et santé, les recherches en géographie de la santé constituent un fil directeur des travaux menés à l'ORSTOM en Afrique. Mais, loin de devenir une discipline autonome, la géographie de la santé s'est de plus en plus affirmée comme une façon comme une autre de faire de la géographie : la géographie des grandes endémies est inséparable des modes d'occupation de l'espace, de même que les différentiels d'état de santé en ville sont liés aux formes de ségrégation spatiale et de territorialisation. En retour, la démarche et les méthodes des géographes contribuent à des avancées décisives dans l'étude épidémiologique des problèmes de santé qui affectent le Tiers Monde.Hervouët Jean-Pierre, Handschumacher Pascal, Paris Frédéric, Salem Gérard. De la géographie des grandes endémies à la géographie de la santé et à la géographie tout court : vingt ans de travaux de l'ORSTOM en Afrique.. In: Espace, populations, sociétés, 1995-1. La géographie de la santé en question. pp. 59-65
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
Inégalités de contamination par le mercure le long du rio Béni (Bolivie) : un marqueur de l'inégale gestion et pratique des espaces par les communautés (Uneven mercury contamination alongside Rio Beni, Bolivia : a marker of uneven management and spatial practices by communities)
No full textHealth geography in France has -for nearly a century now -contributed to the understanding of health inequalities in countries of the northern and southern hemispheres. Even though its conceptual structure and methodology were for the most part initially developed through the study of vector-borne diseases, health geography has subsequently extended its scope through focussing on emerging health issues. This presentation will demonstrate how a highly fruitful method, widely applied to the understanding of health inequalities of communicable diseases, has allowed us to engage in a novel health issue, barely explored by geographers so far : the study of the exposure in the long term to low level contamination by pollutants. With the example of mercury contamination disparities in the Bolivian Amazon region, this presentation confirms the efficiency of this method, which constitutes a starting point for the development of future research on the subject of environmental pollution.La géographie de la santé en France contribue depuis près d'un siècle à la compréhension des inégalités de santé dans les pays du Sud comme du Nord. Si son cadre conceptuel s'est forgé pour beaucoup grâce à l'étude des maladies transmissibles, elle s'est également largement renouvelée en se penchant sur les maux de son temps. Cette communication montre comment une démarche fructueuse largement appliquée à la compréhension des inégalités de santé liées aux maladies transmissibles a permis de revisiter et d'apporter un éclairage nouveau sur une thématique sanitaire encore peu explorée par les géographes : la contamination sur le long terme à de faibles doses de polluants. A travers l'étude des disparités de contamination par le mercure en Amazonie bolivienne, cette communication confirme l'efficacité de cette méthode, qui constitue une porte d'entrée pour le développement de futures recherches sur le thème des pollutions environnementales.Tschirhart Céline, Handschumacher Pascal, Laffly Dominique, Piermay Jean-Luc, Blanc Maurice, Luna Selma, Benefice Eric. Inégalités de contamination par le mercure le long du rio Béni (Bolivie) : un marqueur de l'inégale gestion et pratique des espaces par les communautés (Uneven mercury contamination alongside Rio Beni, Bolivia : a marker of uneven management and spatial practices by communities). In: Bulletin de l'Association de géographes français, 89e année, 2012-2. La géographie de la santé en France, sous la direction de Jeanne-Marie Amat-Roze. pp. 337-350
L'eau et la santé dans les contextes du développement : volet Sénégal : rapport d'activité 1991-1992
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