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I giovani in Veneto - approfondimento dei risultati dell'indagine Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) 2002 dell'Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità su giovani di 11, 13 e 15 anni
No full textVolume di presentazione dei risultati dello studio seguendo un modello teorico di riferimento elaborato dal gruppo di ricerca internazionale HBSC/WH
Physical activity and well-being among early-adolescents,L'attivit`a fisica e il benessere tra i preadolescenti
No full textThe present study is aimed at understanding the effects of an active life style on global health in a peculiar phase of life: early-adolescence. In particular we want to study if the association of physical activity with well-being is direct or mediated by self-efficacy. Data are drawn from "Health Behaviour in School-aged Children" (HBSC) survey, which is a cross national study coordinated by WHO. The representative sample is composed by 6431 students of age 11, 13 and 15 years old. Result show that frequency of physical activity is higher for boys than for girls, and it decreases after the age of 13, Moderate physical activity is associated with better well-being outcomes, both in terms of absence of physical and psychological complains and better satisfaction for life. Moreover, considering the role of self efficacy, we've found that it can be considered a mediator between physical activity and well-being
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
[Health education and the prevention of HIV infection in schools]
No full textThis review describes the HIV prevention strategies adopted since 1990 by the Italian Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education, coordinated by the National Health Institute, for use in Italian schools. It sets out reasons for believing that action in schools is essential in containing the spread of the HIV epidemic and presents teaching materials prepared for school use. An analysis is made of the IV national HIV information campaign, in which the Ministry of Health trained 4,000 middle and senior schools principals. The prospects for continuing the work with these 4,000 principals in the V information campaign, are also reported
L'uso dei risultati dell'indagine "Health Behaviour in School-aged Children": il caso del Veneto
No full textIl crescente decentramento del sistema sociosanitario italiano comporta che gran parte delle scelte di programmazione e orientamento dei servizi si svolgano a livello regionale.
Le politiche socio-sanitarie possono essere orientate anche dai dati provenienti dalla ricerca psico-sociale sulla salute. La ricerca HBSC, implementata nel Veneto, è un esempio di come dei dati, raccolti per studiare gli stili di vita e la salute dei preadolescenti tra gli 11 e i 15 anni siano stati usati ed abbaino avuto un impatto anche sulla programmazione socio-sanitaria della regione.
Oltre ad evidenziare i passaggi che hanno consentito di raggiungere questi risultati vengono evidenziati gli sviluppi e le potenzialità di quest’indagine
Collecting psychiatric resources utilisation data to calculate costs of care: a comparison between a service receipt interview and a case register
No full textBackground: Economic assessment of inter-ventions and policies is becoming increasingly common,in large measure because of the growing emphasis oncost containment within health care. Comprehensiveand reliable outcome and cost data are required to ad-vise policy makers and clinicians as to the best use oftheir limited resources. The process of costing can bebroken down into three connected tasks: the collectionof service receipt or utilisation data relative to individualclients or patients over a de®ned period; the costing ofeach of the services used; and the combination of thesetwo sets of information in order to calculate individualcosts. The aim of this study was to compare two meth-odologies of collecting data on individual service use ± acustomised interview schedule, ICAP, and the psychi-atric case register (PCR) ± and to calculate costs, testingthe extent of agreement between them. Method: Theagreement between the ICAP and the PCR costs mea-surement was evaluated using the concordance correla-tion coe cient qc. From all patients (n = 543) who hadatleast one contact with a psychiatrist or a psychologistduring the period October±December 1996, 339 patientswere interviewed using the ICAP. The overall number ofpatients in contact with the South-Verona CPS in thesame period was 630. Results: The agreement betweenthe two sources was very di€erent for each diagnosticgroup and each professional category. However, theoverall agreement on total costs was satisfactory(qc < 0.95). This result is probably due to the e€ect ofthe good agreement observed on more costly services:inpatient care and sheltered accommodation. Conclu-sion: The results suggested practical implications for theuse of the service receipt interview: interviewers shouldbe trained in order to avoid misinterpretation of thede®nitions given in the form; the sources of informationshould be clearly de®ned to tease out all the items ofservices provided for the users; the professionals (i.e.psychiatrists) could in ̄uence the reliability of data col-lection by underestimating services provided by di€erentprofessionals (nurses, social workers, etc.). The ®ndingscon®rm that it is possible to use this approach when theaim is to estimate the whole cost of the services; how-ever, the importance of adopting adequate proceduresfor analysing the complexity of cost components shouldbe pointed out. Only a trained interviewer whothoroughly knows each component of the health andsocial services provided could guarantee an accuratedata collection
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