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Integrating Green Care Initiatives into National Healthcare provisions: a literature review focused on governance dimensions
No full textThe umbrella term Green Care (GC) includes a spectrum of interventions supporting health promotion, disease prevention, and rehabilitation. GC can potentially improve public healthcare provision, responding to modern increases in demand for healthcare in the general population and the specific needs of vulnerable groups. Actions aimed at expanding care provision are often undertaken by the government justified on public economic grounds to reduce the impact of market and information failures that undermine people's ability to maximize their welfare. Despite this, public health organizations and institutions have not yet recognized GC's potential in supporting innovative health practices. Green Care Initiatives (GCIs) are organized interventions involving professionals of different legal entities (e.g., private, public) and various fields (e.g., forestry, healthcare, agriculture) representing diverse environmental, economic, social, and health-related stakes. Therefore, the issue is strictly connected to the partnership composition, decision-making processes, and rules implemented by GC actors and, thus, embedded in a governance framework. Given this, our aim is to comprehend which conditions could enable GCIs to be recognized within the public health system by adopting an analytical understanding of governance. Therefore, we conducted a systematic literature review of international studies on integrating GCIs into healthcare systems by exploring the conditions observed for this to happen and through which specific governance arrangements. By following the PRISMA guidelines, search strings of keywords were combined concerning the themes of "Green Care," "Healthcare," and "Governance" in Scopus and Web of Science databases. Then, pre-defined criteria were applied to refine the selection of relevant documents. Finally, findings were categorized under the main dimensions to facilitate qualitative analysis. Results from our research indicate that the discourses around governance are more developed in Social Farming, while contrastingly, Forest-based initiatives remain little explored. Our governance analytical framework could facilitate institutional awareness and evidence-based decision-making to support the integration of GCIs into healthcare practices. Furthermore, it could help determine relevant aspects for the success of GCIs by paving the way for developing an evaluation framework based on different health and environmental governance dimensions
Il ruolo degli enti di gestione delle aree protette nella governance ambientale collaborativa per la biodiversità in Italia supportata dal Programma europeo LIFE 2014-2020.
Get PDFOggi più che mai l’intera società ha preso consapevolezza di come il proprio benessere sia strettamente connesso alla qualità degli ambienti naturali e della biodiversità. Tale cognizione è sottolineata in numerosi e recenti programmi politici sia livello nazionale che internazionale (es. Agenda 2030 per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile, Strategia Europea per la Biodiversità 2030). In questo contesto, la corretta gestione delle aree protette risulta essere di fondamentale importanza. Riferendosi al territorio italiano, è doveroso tenere in considerazione che la maggior parte delle aree naturali protette è ubicata nelle cosiddette “Aree Interne”, marginali per quanto riguarda la fornitura di servizi alla persona, ma ricche di risorse ambientali e culturali che necessitano di interventi specifici volti a migliorare la qualità della vita
dei residenti valorizzando le caratteristiche intrinseche dei territori. Conseguentemente, gli enti di gestione delle aree protette rivestono un ruolo strategico nella definizione e nell’implementazione di azioni concrete volte a contribuire al raggiungimento di uno sviluppo sostenibile che tenga conto sia dei bisogni sociali che ecologici specifici al contesto, in quanto figure terze tra autorità nazionali e realtà locali. Nonostante sia chiaro il ruolo chiave di tali enti, la letteratura presenta criticità rispetto al loro operato, soprattutto per quanto riguarda la mancanza di un atteggiamento proattivo di tali istituzioni, dovuta a un atteggiamento sovente di mera sorveglianza, associabile a una visione di comando-controllo della governance territoriale. Al contrario, è universalmente condivisa la necessità di partecipazione e coinvolgimento attivo da parte di tutte le tipologie di attori – politiche, economiche e civili – per garantire un’efficace gestione territoriale, in accordo alla tendenza di associare al concetto di governance ambientale quello di governance collaborativa. Questa prospettiva rafforza il ruolo del Programma europeo LIFE, uno dei maggiori strumenti per il cofinanziamento di progetti ambientali proposti generalmente da partenariati di attori. Esso, infatti, si presenta come uno degli strumenti chiave per migliorare la gestione delle aree naturali protette e per promuovere la conservazione e il recupero di habitat e specie protette nel territorio europeo, soprattutto attraverso i progetti LIFE Natura (LIFE-NAT). Riferendosi all’ultima programmazione LIFE, e in particolare ai 45 progetti LIFE-NAT implementati in Italia tra il 2014 e il 2019, questo studio vuole analizzare il ruolo degli enti di gestione delle aree protette rivestito nei partenariati supportati da LIFE attraverso uno studio della connettività tra i 283 beneficiari cofinanziati dal programma e la localizzazione degli stessi nel territorio italiano. L’obiettivo è testare l’ipotesi secondo cui tali enti possano definirsi catalizzatori di innovazione e mediatori tra le diverse parti coinvolte all’interno della programmazione LIFE-NAT. L’elevato ammontare di progetti coordinati dagli enti di gestione delle aree protette (28,8%), e dagli stessi come beneficiari di progetto (21,7%), soprattutto nelle Aree Interne italiane (70,96%), dimostra come questa categoria rivesta un ruolo strategico da prendere in considerazione rispetto all’implementazione di azioni legate alla natura e alla biodiversità supportate da LIFE, soprattutto nelle aree svantaggiate del centro-sud Italia nel quale ricoprono ruoli di maggiore centralità nella rete di relazioni tra beneficiari dei diversi partenariati dei progetti LIFE analizzati
Integrating Green Care Initiatives into Conventional Health Systems: Which Governance Dimensions Can Guide This Process?
Get PDFGreen Care initiatives (GCIs) encompass various interventions that support physical, mental, and social well-being through interaction with nature. Integrating GCIs into conventional healthcare systems is a complex task that requires multi-actor and multi-level governance efforts. This study examines, through a systematized literature review, the relevant governance dimensions to facilitate the inclusion of GCIs in traditional care pathways. From the analysis of the 36 selected studies, four key dimensions were identified: organizational structure, knowledge, legitimacy, and decentralization. The analysis highlights the need to strengthen the responsibility of Green Care actors as healthcare service providers, enhance local authorities’ role in creating new integrated service delivery networks, combine different knowledge perspectives, and legitimize non-healthcare actors. Recommendations are made to address these governance aspects to facilitate the integration of GCIs and channel their benefits in prevention and health promotion. Adopting an adequate governance framework is fundamental for mainstreaming GCIs in current healthcare systems
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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