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Migrant oral care needs: public health service vs. charitable organization, Rome
No full textAim:To provide an accurate profile of cultural diversity in customs and needs for dental care among immigrants in Rome, Italy. Collecting data on immigrant populations and their health needs is crucial, in order to develop effective care delivery.
Methods: A questionnaire was used between September 2006 and March 2007, for out-patients, at their first visit to two primary
oral health care clinics (national public health service - NPHS and a charitable organisation - CO) in Rome. Socio economic
status (SES), access to general and oral health care and OHRQoL were assessed. Illegal immigrants were classified where
they did not have a personal identification card. Verbal consent of respondents was recorded. Permission of the Director of the
Department of Stomatology and Dental Clinic Caritas was given for the collection of data.
Results:The sample consisted of 250 subjects (144 Italian and 106 non-Italian). 100 out-patients of the CO and 150 of NPHS. Immigrants made up 81% of the CO sample and 16% in the NPHS sample (p<0.001). Overall, women represented 57% (N=144) of respondents. Patients attending the CO were significantly younger than those at the NPHS (p<0.001). The measures of SES showed significantly lower integration and more unemployment among CO patients, who also lacked information on access to care and more precarious employment, residential (10% homeless) and legal status. Almost all migrant patients had suffered from a dental problem
in the last year. Conclusion:Illegal immigrants prefer to access dental care provided by a voluntary organisation as it offers assistance, bypassing bureaucracy. Although access to health care by those who do not comply with the rules on residing in Italy should not require the presentation of documents or be reported to the authorities. Immigrants who use the NPHS are generally more integrated, and have been living in Italy for more than 5 years. Predictably, for immigrants, oral health is a low priority, and this should be regarded as a public health issue
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
Meeting of the oral health needs of immigrants
No full textBackground: Oral health is an important aspect of well-being. In Italy immigrants can have different
access to health care services, and can opt for the National Health Service (NHS) and/ or private non- profit
health care organizations. The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument to evaluate oral health
in the immigrant population of Rome and to investigate the differences between two different types of services:
the First Observation Unit at the Department of Oral and Maxillo Facial Sciences, at the “Sapienza”
University of Rome (a NHS affiliate), and a charitable organization, the Caritas Dental Center (CDC ).
Meth ods: A multiple-choice questionnaire was administered between the last trimester of 2006 and the
first trimester of 2007. A chi square analysis was performed and the level of significance was set at p<0.05.
Results : The sample was composed of 250 people, of which 100 were patients of the CDC and 150 were
patients of the NHS. The percentage of non-Italians was 80% (n=80) in the CDC sample, and only 16%
(n=25) in the NHS sample. In the CDC , definitive resolving therapies, such as tooth extractions, prevailed
(60% v’s 47% NHS; p=0.033). In addition, the frequency of consumption of sugary foods and drinks was
significantly higher among CDC patients (31% reported to consume these over 9 times a day) compared to
NHS patients (11% reporting this consumption).
Dis cussi on: The study shows a substantial under using of the National Health Service for Oral health
care needs by the immigrant population. The particular composition of the sample, with a high prevalence
being of Romanian nationality, might reflect specific conditions of this nationality. The results showed
that immigrants were satisfied with the health care even though they encountered difficulties in terms of
level of communication
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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