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Journal articles on the topic "Curative services"
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Medina-Solís, Carlo Eduardo, José Obed García-Cortés, José Luis Robles-Minaya, et al. "Clinical and non-clinical variables associated with preventive and curative dental service utilisation: a cross-sectional study among adolescents and young adults in Central Mexico." BMJ Open 9, no. 9 (2019): e027101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027101.
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ObjectiveThe present study aimed to identify preventive and curative dental health service utilisation (DHSU) in the context of associated clinical and non-clinical factors among adolescents and young adults in Mexico.DesignCross-sectional study.SettingApplicants to a public university in Mexico.ParticipantsParticipants were 638 adolescents and young adults aged 16–25 randomly selected from university applicants.InterventionsData were collected using a self-administered questionnaire filled out by the students. For assessment of dental caries experience, we used the index of decayed, missing and filled teeth.Primary outcomeThe dependent variable was DHSU in the previous 12 months, coded as 0=non-use, 1=use of curative services and 2=use of preventive services.ResultsThe mean age was 18.76±1.76 years, and 49.2% were women. The prevalence of DHSU was 40.9% (95% CI 37.1 to 44.8) for curative services and 22.9% (95% CI 19.7 to 26.3) for preventive services. The variables associated with curative services were age, sex, mother’s education, dental pain in the previous 12 months, caries experience, use of self-care devices and oral health knowledge. For preventive services, the variables associated were mother’s education, dental pain in the previous 12 months, caries experience, use of self-care devices and self-perception of oral health.ConclusionsWhile differences emerged by type of service, a number of variables (sociodemographic and socioeconomic characteristics as well as dental factors) remained in the final model. Greater oral health needs and socioeconomic inequalities remained as predictors of both types of DHSU. Given the differences revealed by our study, oral health policies should refer those seeking dental care for oral diseases to preventive services, and promote the use of such services among the poorer and less educated population groups.
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Planas-Miret, Ivan, Ana Tur-Prats, and Jaume Puig-Junoy. "Spanish health benefits for services of curative care." European Journal of Health Economics 6, S1 (2005): 66–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10198-005-0321-2.
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Okky Haidar Yahya Irawansa, Yudha Bhaskoro, Ahmad Rizki Maulana, and Febri Endra Budi Setyawan. "Model Tatalaksana Komprehensif Tuberculosis Multidrug-Resistant (TB-MDR) Melalui Pendekatan Provider Pelayanan Kesehatan." CoMPHI Journal: Community Medicine and Public Health of Indonesia Journal 1, no. 2 (2020): 51–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.37148/comphijournal.v1i2.15.
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Introduction: Tuberculosis is a highly contagious disease and requires long-term treatment and large amounts of medication. This can affect the high risk of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB). A health service approach in providing comprehensive management including promotive, preventive, curative, and rehabilitative is very necessary to overcome these cases. Aim of study: This article aims to determine interventions that can be carried out by health services in preventing the occurrence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Method: The method used is a literature review through national to international journals that examine the interventions that can be carried out by health services in preventing MDR-TB. The articles or data sources that have been obtained will be compared with one another so that the factors that most influence the occurrence of MDR-TB can be found. Results and Discussion: The literature search results show that health workers, especially doctors, have an important role in managing MDR-TB cases. Management of MDR-TB in a comprehensive manner is carried out through promotive, preventive, curative, and rehabilitative programs through a health service provider approach. Educational activities regarding TB, MDR-TB, or the possibility of drug resistance are important to do to prevent new cases of MDR-TB. Curative treatment is carried out to improve mental and social health. Furthermore, rehabilitative efforts are carried out as a means to improve health status recovery for MDR-TB sufferers. Conclusion: Health service providers can improve facilities, they can carry out promotive, curative rehabilitative management to reduce the incidence of MDR-TB.
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Delisle, Marc-André, and Hector Ouellet. "Fréquentation des groupes d'aîné(e)s et recours aux services sociaux et de santé." Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement 20, no. 3 (2001): 307–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0714980800012800.
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ABSTRACTThis paper presents the results of a study on the relationships between social participation and use of services. The hypotheses predicted that members of groups with high degrees of participation, cohesion, or participation and cohesion are likely to behave in a more homogeneous manner toward the use of services than members of groups having the opposite characteristics. The hypotheses were tested by doing multiple regressions on the number of service agencies contacted, preventive medical consultations and curative medical consultations. One of the hypotheses was corroborated by a major finding: being a member of a group with a high degree of participation and a high degree of cohesion remains positively correlated to curative medical consultations even when control variables like psychological well-being and perceived health have been considered. This result suggests that it could be possible to influence the use of services by older persons who are members of peer groups in dealing with the internal dynamics of these groups.
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Krishnan, Anand, Narendra K. Arora, Chandrakant S. Pandav, and Suresh K. Kapoor. "Cost of curative pediatric services in a public sector setting." Indian Journal of Pediatrics 72, no. 8 (2005): 657–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02724072.
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Nshakira-Rukundo, Emmanuel, Essa Chanie Mussa, Nathan Nshakira, Nicolas Gerber, and Joachim von Braun. "Impact of community-based health insurance on utilisation of preventive health services in rural Uganda: a propensity score matching approach." International Journal of Health Economics and Management 21, no. 2 (2021): 203–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10754-021-09294-6.
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AbstractThe effect of voluntary health insurance on preventive health has received limited research attention in developing countries, even when they suffer immensely from easily preventable illnesses. This paper surveys households in rural south-western Uganda, which are geographically serviced by a voluntary Community-based health insurance scheme, and applied propensity score matching to assess the effect of enrolment on using mosquito nets and deworming under-five children. We find that enrolment in the scheme increased the probability of using a mosquito net by 26% and deworming by 18%. We postulate that these findings are partly mediated by information diffusion and social networks, financial protection, which gives households the capacity to save and use service more, especially curative services that are delivered alongside preventive services. This paper provides more insight into the broader effects of health insurance in developing countries, beyond financial protection and utilisation of hospital-based services.
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Mayland, Catriona R., Kate Ingarfield, Simon N. Rogers, et al. "Disease trajectories, place and mode of death in people with head and neck cancer: Findings from the ‘Head and Neck 5000’ population-based prospective clinical cohort study." Palliative Medicine 34, no. 5 (2020): 639–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269216320904313.
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Background: Few large studies describe initial disease trajectories and subsequent mortality in people with head and neck cancer. This is a necessary first step to identify the need for palliative care and associated services. Aim: To analyse data from the Head and Neck 5000 study to present mortality, place and mode of death within 12 months of diagnosis. Design: Prospective cohort study. Participants: In total, 5402 people with a new diagnosis of head and neck cancer were recruited from 76 cancer centres in the United Kingdom between April 2011 and December 2014. Results: Initially, 161/5402 (3%) and 5241/5402 (97%) of participants were treated with ‘non-curative’ and ‘curative’ intent, respectively. Within 12 months, 109/161 (68%) in the ‘non-curative’ group died compared with 482/5241 (9%) in the ‘curative’ group. Catastrophic bleed was the terminal event for 10.4% and 9.8% of people in ‘non-curative’ and ‘curative’ groups, respectively; terminal airway obstruction was recorded for 7.5% and 6.3% of people in the same corresponding groups. Similar proportions of people in both groups died in a hospice (22.9% ‘non-curative’; 23.5% ‘curative’) and 45.7% of the ‘curative’ group died in hospital. Conclusion: In addition to those with incurable head and neck cancer, there is a small but significant ‘curative’ subgroup of people who may have palliative needs shortly following diagnosis. Given the high mortality, risk of acute catastrophic event and frequent hospital death, clarifying the level and timing of palliative care services engagement would help provide assurance as to whether palliative care needs are being met.
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Meler, Marcel, Drago Ružić, and Dragan Kovačević. "Health service - a part of the tourism product." Tourism and hospitality management 2, no. 2 (1996): 265–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.20867/thm.2.2.4.
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The history and evolution of tourism show that the beginnings of tourism, as well as its later development are based on the development of those destinations that had markedly attractive factors of curative character. Health tourism can therefore be defined as a joint working area of health service and tourism where these two, on the partnership basis and with a mutual interest, organize the stay of individuals as tourists who come to places with marked natural and curative factors which they use and w'here they under medical control (or without it) receive health services through active vacation and through various other forms of treatment. The satisfaction of the need for health services, as well as for other partial tourist products that aim at satisfying the need for health services, also demands an adjustment of the business operations of the subjects offering tourist products, especially in hotel industry. Having in mind the fact that tourist movements, to a greater or lesser extent, also represent “movements for health purposes”, it is extremely important that hoteliers fully recognize the specific characteristics (e g., age structure, health condition and habits, etc.) of those segments of guests to which they direct their services and products.
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Bawazir, A. A., T. S. Bin Hawail, K. A. Z. Al-Sakkaf, H. O. Basaleem, A. F. Muhraz, and A. M. Al-Shehri. "Distribution and utilization of curative primary healthcare services in Lahej, Yemen." Public Health 127, no. 9 (2013): 867–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2013.06.005.
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Nouira, A., A. Bchir, M. Njah, B. Yazid, and S. Bou Ali. "[Costs of basic health services in a health district in Tunisia]." Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal 10, no. 1-2 (2004): 37–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.26719/2004.10.1-2.37.
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Information on the cost of health services is essential for good planning and management and the efficient use of resources. We calculated the total costs incurred in running primary health services for one year [1995] in the health district of Enfidha [Tunisia]. The yearly operating expenditure for the health district was 1 219 099 Tunisian dinars and the cost per inhabitant was 17.494 dinars [US dollar 1 = Tunisian dinar 0.950 in 1995] ; 65.37% of total costs went on staff and 17.03% on drugs. Looked at another way, 84, 96% went on curative services and 14.04% on preventive services. The cost of a consultation for curative care was 6.847dinars, for perinatal care was 2.764 dinars, for immunization was 3.680 and for school visit was 6.680 dinars. The study helps to identify ways in which cost analysis can be used to explore efficiency and resource adequacy in the district
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Curative services"
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Jama, Ahmed Ismail Boonyong Keiwkarnka. "Clients' satisfaction towards curative services provided by the primary care units in Sakaeo province, Thailand /." Abstract, 2004. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2547/cd363/4637904.pdf.
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Aoyama, Atsuko, Asmaa Ghareds Mohamed, Michiyo Higuchi, Shokria Adly Labeeb, and Chifa Chiang. "BARRIERS TO THE USE OF BASIC HEALTH SERVICES AMONG WOMEN IN RURAL SOUTHERN EGYPT (UPPER EGYPT)." Nagoya University School of Medicine, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/18471.
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Tran, Thi Luu Junya Pattara-arechachai. "Health center-curative service utilization in a commune of Vinhtuong district, Vinhphuc province, Vietnam /." Abstract, 1999. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2542/42E-TranThiLuu.pdf.
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Kemp, Gavin. "CURARE : curating and managing big data collections on the cloud." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSE1179/document.
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L'émergence de nouvelles plateformes décentralisées pour la création de données, tel que les plateformes mobiles, les capteurs et l'augmentation de la disponibilité d'open data sur le Web, s'ajoute à l'augmentation du nombre de sources de données disponibles et apporte des données massives sans précédent à être explorées. La notion de curation de données qui a émergé se réfère à la maintenance des collections de données, à la préparation et à l'intégration d'ensembles de données (data set), les combinant avec une plateforme analytique. La tâche de curation inclut l'extraction de métadonnées implicites et explicites ; faire la correspondance et l'enrichissement des métadonnées sémantiques afin d'améliorer la qualité des données. La prochaine génération de moteurs de gestion de données devrait promouvoir des techniques avec une nouvelle philosophie pour faire face au déluge des données. Ils devraient aider les utilisateurs à comprendre le contenue des collections de données et à apporter une direction pour explorer les données. Un scientifique peut explorer les collections de données pas à pas, puis s'arrêter quand le contenu et la qualité atteignent des niveaux satisfaisants. Notre travail adopte cette philosophie et la principale contribution est une approche de curation des données et un environnement d'exploration que nous avons appelé CURARE. CURARE est un système à base de services pour curer et explorer des données volumineuses sur les aspects variété et variabilité. CURARE implémente un modèle de collection de données, que nous proposons, visant représenter le contenu structurel des collections des données et les métadonnées statistiques. Le modèle de collection de données est organisé sous le concept de vue et celle-ci est une structure de données qui pourvoit une perspective agrégée du contenu des collections des données et de ses parutions (releases) associées. CURARE pourvoit des outils pour explorer (interroger) des métadonnées et pour extraire des vues en utilisant des méthodes analytiques. Exploiter les données massives requière un nombre considérable de décisions de la part de l'analyste des données pour trouver quelle est la meilleure façon pour stocker, partager et traiter les collections de données afin d'en obtenir le maximum de bénéfice et de connaissances à partir de ces données. Au lieu d'explorer manuellement les collections des données, CURARE fournit de outils intégrés à un environnement pour assister les analystes des données à trouver quelle est la meilleure collection qui peut être utilisée pour accomplir un objectif analytique donné. Nous avons implémenté CURARE et expliqué comment le déployer selon un modèle d'informatique dans les nuages (cloud computing) utilisant des services de science des donnés sur lesquels les services CURARE sont branchés. Nous avons conçu des expériences pour mesurer les coûts de la construction des vues à partir des ensembles des données du Grand Lyon et de Twitter, afin de pourvoir un aperçu de l'intérêt de notre approche et notre environnement de curation de données<br>The emergence of new platforms for decentralized data creation, such as sensor and mobile platforms and the increasing availability of open data on the Web, is adding to the increase in the number of data sources inside organizations and brings an unprecedented Big Data to be explored. The notion of data curation has emerged to refer to the maintenance of data collections and the preparation and integration of datasets, combining them to perform analytics. Curation tasks include extracting explicit and implicit meta-data; semantic metadata matching and enrichment to add quality to the data. Next generation data management engines should promote techniques with a new philosophy to cope with the deluge of data. They should aid the user in understanding the data collections’ content and provide guidance to explore data. A scientist can stepwise explore into data collections and stop when the content and quality reach a satisfaction point. Our work adopts this philosophy and the main contribution is a data collections’ curation approach and exploration environment named CURARE. CURARE is a service-based system for curating and exploring Big Data. CURARE implements a data collection model that we propose, used for representing their content in terms of structural and statistical meta-data organised under the concept of view. A view is a data structure that provides an aggregated perspective of the content of a data collection and its several associated releases. CURARE provides tools focused on computing and extracting views using data analytics methods and also functions for exploring (querying) meta-data. Exploiting Big Data requires a substantial number of decisions to be performed by data analysts to determine which is the best way to store, share and process data collections to get the maximum benefit and knowledge from them. Instead of manually exploring data collections, CURARE provides tools integrated in an environment for assisting data analysts determining which are the best collections that can be used for achieving an analytics objective. We implemented CURARE and explained how to deploy it on the cloud using data science services on top of which CURARE services are plugged. We have conducted experiments to measure the cost of computing views based on datasets of Grand Lyon and Twitter to provide insight about the interest of our data curation approach and environment
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Kollen, Christine, Inna Kouper, Mayu Ishida, Sarah Williams, and Kathleen Fear. "Research Data Services Maturity in Academic Libraries." American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622168.
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An ACRL white paper from 2012 reported that, at that time, only a small number of academic libraries in the United States and Canada offered research data services (RDS), but many were planning to do so within the next two years (Tenopir, Birch, and Allard, 2012). By 2013, 74% of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) survey respondents offered RDS and an additional 23% were planning to do so (Fearon, Gunia, Pralle, Lake, and Sallans, 2013). The academic libraries recognize that the landscape of services changes quickly and that they need to support the changing needs of research and instruction.
In their efforts to implement RDS, libraries often respond to pressures originating outside the library, such as national or funder mandates for data management planning and data sharing. To provide effective support for researchers and instructors, though, libraries must be proactive and develop new services that look forward and yet accommodate the existing human, technological, and intellectual capital accumulated over the decades. Setting the stage for data curation in libraries means to create visionary approaches that supersede institutional differences while still accommodating diversity in implementation. How do academic libraries work towards that?
This chapter will combine an historical overview of RDS thinking and implementations based on the existing literature with an empirical analysis of ARL libraries’ current RDS goals and activities. The latter is based on the study we conducted in 2015 that included a content analysis of North American research library web pages and interviews of library leaders and administrators of ARL libraries. Using historical and our own data, we will synthesize the current state of RDS implementation across ARL libraries. Further, we will examine the models of research data management maturity (see, for example, Qin, Crowston and Flynn, 2014) and discuss how such models compare to our own three-level classification of services and activities offered at libraries - basic, intermediate, and advanced. Our analysis will conclude with a set of recommendations for next steps, i.e., actions and resources that a library might consider to expand their RDS to the next maturity level.
References
Fearon, D. Jr., Gunia, B., Pralle, B.E., Lake, S., Sallans, A.L. (2013). Research data management services. (ARL Spec Kit 334). Washington, D.C.: ARL. Retrieved from: http://publications.arl.org/Research-Data-Management-Services-SPEC-Kit-334/
Tenopir, C., Birch, B., & Allard, S. (2012). Academic libraries and research data services: Current practices and plans for the future. ACRL. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/publications/whitepapers/Tenopir_Birch_Allard.pdf
Qin, J., Crowston, K., & Flynn, C. (2014). 1.1 Commitment to Perform. A Capability Maturity Model for Research Data Management. wiki. Retrieved http://rdm.ischool.syr.edu/xwiki/bin/view/CMM+for+RDM/WebHome
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Ephraim, Sean Stephen. "Design and application of methods for curating genetic variation databases." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1314.
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Cordova (Curated Online Reference Database Of Variation Annotations) is an out-of-the-box solution for building and maintaining an online database of genetic variations integrated with population study information and pathogenicity prediction results from popular algorithms. Our primary motivation for developing this system is to aid researchers and clinician-scientists in determining the clinical significance of genetic variations. To achieve this goal, Cordova provides an interface to review and manually or computationally curate genetic variation data as well as share it for clinical diagnostics and the advancement of research.
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Li, Liuqing. "Event-related Collections Understanding and Services." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/97365.
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Event-related collections, including both tweets and webpages, have valuable information, and are worth exploring in interdisciplinary research and education. Unfortunately, such data is noisy, so this variety of information has not been adequately exploited. Further, for better understanding, more knowledge hidden behind events needs to be unearthed. Regarding these collections, different societies may have different requirements in particular scenarios. Some may need relatively clean datasets for data exploration and data mining. Social researchers require preprocessing of information, so they can conduct analyses. General societies are interested in the overall descriptions of events. However, few systems, tools, or methods exist to support the flexible use of event-related collections.
In this research, we propose a new, integrated system to process and analyze event-related collections at different levels (i.e., data, information, and knowledge). It also provides various services and covers the most important stages in a system pipeline, including collection development, curation, analysis, integration, and visualization. Firstly, we propose a query likelihood model with pre-query design and post-query expansion to rank a webpage corpus by query generation probability, and retrieve relevant webpages from event-related tweet collections. We further preserve webpage data into WARC files and enrich original tweets with webpages in JSON format. As an application of data management, we conduct an empirical study of the embedded URLs in tweets based on collection development and data curation techniques. Secondly, we develop TwiRole, an integrated model for 3-way user classification on Twitter, which detects brand-related, female-related, and male-related tweeters through multiple features with both machine learning (i.e., random forest classifier) and deep learning (i.e., an 18-layer ResNet) techniques. As guidance to user-centered social research at the information level, we combine TwiRole with a pre-trained recurrent neural network-based emotion detection model, and carry out tweeting pattern analyses on disaster-related collections. Finally, we propose a tweet-guided multi-document summarization (TMDS) model, which generates summaries of the event-related collections by using tweets associated with those events. The TMDS model also considers three aspects of named entities (i.e., importance, relatedness, and diversity) as well as topics, to score sentences in webpages, and then rank selected relevant sentences in proper order for summarization.
The entire system is realized using many technologies, such as collection development, natural language processing, machine learning, and deep learning. For each part, comprehensive evaluations are carried out, that confirm the effectiveness and accuracy of our proposed approaches. Regarding broader impact, the outcomes proposed in our study can be easily adopted or extended for further event analyses and service development.<br>Doctor of Philosophy<br>Event-related collections, including both tweets and webpages, have valuable information. They are worth exploring in interdisciplinary research and education. Unfortunately, such data is noisy. Many tweets and webpages are not relevant to the events. This leads to difficulties during data analysis of the datasets, as well as explanation of the results. Further, for better understanding, more knowledge hidden behind events needs to be unearthed. Regarding these collections, different groups of people may have different requirements. Some may need relatively clean datasets for data exploration. Some require preprocessing of information, so they can conduct analyses, e.g., based on tweeter type or content topic. General societies are interested in the overall descriptions of events. However, few systems, tools, or methods exist to support the flexible use of event-related collections.
Accordingly, we describe our new framework and integrated system to process and analyze event-related collections. It provides varied services and covers the most important stages in a system pipeline. It has sub-systems to clean, manage, analyze, integrate, and visualize event-related collections. It takes an event-related tweet collection as input and generates an event-related webpage corpus by leveraging Wikipedia and the URLs embedded in tweets. It also combines and enriches original tweets with webpages. As an application of data management, we conduct an empirical study of tweets and their embedded URLs. We developed TwiRole for 3-way user classification on Twitter. It detects brand-related, female-related, and male-related tweeters through their profiles, tweets, and images. To aid user-centered social research, we combine TwiRole with an existing emotion detection tool, and carry out tweeting pattern analyses on disaster-related collections. Finally, we propose a tweet-guided multi-document summarization (TMDS) model and service, which generates summaries of the event-related collections by using tweets associated with those events. It extracts important sentences across different topics from webpages, and organizes them in proper order.
The entire system is realized using many technologies, such as collection development, natural language processing, machine learning, and deep learning. For each part, comprehensive evaluations help confirm the effectiveness and accuracy of our proposed approaches. Regarding broader impact, our methods and system can be easily adopted or extended for further event analyses and service development.
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Abarzúa, Gatica Jorge. "El proyecto de ley de Medicina Curativa de 1964-1968: la discusión en torno a la ampliación en los servicios de salud pública." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2018. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/169889.
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Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Historia<br>Seminario: Chile: La larga década de los sesenta, transformaciones culturales, políticas y económicas y la influencia del contexto internacional
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Schubert, Chris, Georg Seyerl, and Katharina Sack. "Dynamic Data Citation Service-Subset Tool for Operational Data Management." MDPI, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/data4030115.
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In earth observation and climatological sciences, data and their data services grow on a daily
basis in a large spatial extent due to the high coverage rate of satellite sensors, model calculations, but
also by continuous meteorological in situ observations. In order to reuse such data, especially data
fragments as well as their data services in a collaborative and reproducible manner by citing the origin
source, data analysts, e.g., researchers or impact modelers, need a possibility to identify the exact
version, precise time information, parameter, and names of the dataset used. A manual process would
make the citation of data fragments as a subset of an entire dataset rather complex and imprecise to
obtain. Data in climate research are in most cases multidimensional, structured grid data that can
change partially over time. The citation of such evolving content requires the approach of "dynamic
data citation". The applied approach is based on associating queries with persistent identifiers. These
queries contain the subsetting parameters, e.g., the spatial coordinates of the desired study area or the
time frame with a start and end date, which are automatically included in the metadata of the newly
generated subset and thus represent the information about the data history, the data provenance,
which has to be established in data repository ecosystems. The Research Data Alliance Data Citation
Working Group (RDA Data Citation WG) summarized the scientific status quo as well as the state of
the art from existing citation and data management concepts and developed the scalable dynamic
data citation methodology of evolving data. The Data Centre at the Climate Change Centre Austria
(CCCA) has implemented the given recommendations and offers since 2017 an operational service
on dynamic data citation on climate scenario data. With the consciousness that the objective of this
topic brings a lot of dependencies on bibliographic citation research which is still under discussion,
the CCCA service on Dynamic Data Citation focused on the climate domain specific issues, like
characteristics of data, formats, software environment, and usage behavior. The current effort beyond
spreading made experiences will be the scalability of the implementation, e.g., towards the potential
of an Open Data Cube solution.
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Baumgarten, Alexandre. "Ações curativas de saúde bucal na atenção primária : avaliação da qualidade por meio da estrutura e processo." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/143377.
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O Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), por meio do princípio da integralidade, desencadeia um processo de ampliação nos serviços de saúde oferecidos à população brasileira, incluindo a assistência odontológica, que é garantida pela Política Nacional de Saúde Bucal. A avaliação dos serviços de saúde aliado à qualidade prestada apresenta-se como campo de conhecimento específico, e sua avaliação por meio do modelo centrado nos componentes de Estrutura, Processo e Resultado torna-se fundamental para a concretização da integralidade na atenção primária à saúde (APS). O Programa Nacional de Melhoria do Acesso e da Qualidade da Atenção Básica (PMAQAB) busca institucionalizar os processos de avaliação da qualidade como atributo fundamental a ser alcançado no SUS. Diante desse contexto, essa dissertação se propôs a realizar uma avaliação das principais ações curativas realizadas pelo cirurgião-dentista na atenção primária, avaliadas por meio da estrutura e processo das unidades básicas de saúde. Para isso, foi conduzido um estudo transversal com base em dados de 18114 centros de APS com equipes de saúde bucal (ESB). O desfecho foi criado por meio da associação da realização de uma série de procedimentos curativos realizados pelo cirurgião-dentista (CD), associado a uma estrutura mínima pré-estabelecida. As covariáveis foram referentes à unidade de saúde e ao cirurgião-dentista. Os resultados demonstram que 1190 ESB não apresentaram equipamentos mínimos para a assistência odontológica e somente n=2498 (14,8%) apresentaram a qualidade máxima esperada. Quanto às características da unidade de saúde, a prevalência positiva para a qualidade foi apresentada nas ESB com maior número de profissionais, as que apresentaram maior carga horária de trabalho, as que a gestão disponibilizou informações para análise de situação de saúde, assim como as que realizaram monitoramento dos indicadores de saúde bucal e também as que planejaram e programaram as ações de saúde bucal mensalmente com a equipe de atenção primária. Quanto ao cirurgião-dentista, maior qualidade foi constatada nos que apresentaram melhores vínculos empregatícios, que possuíam plano de carreira, pós-graduação em saúde pública e realizaram educação permanente. Sugere-se a melhoria da infraestrutura dos consultórios odontológicos da APS, bem como o incentivo à implementação dos resultados apontados nas unidades de saúde e às características referentes aos profissionais da saúde do SUS, para que possam refletir na melhoria da qualidade da assistência curativa prestada.<br>The Unified Health System, through the principle of Integrality, aims to expand the health services offered to the population, including dental care, which is guaranteed by the National Oral Health Policy. The evaluation of health services combined with the quality provided presents itself as a specific field of knowledge, and its evaluation through the model centered in the Structure, Process and Results becomes fundamental for the realization of the integrality in primary health care. The National Program for Improving Access and Quality of Primary Health Care (PMAQ-AB) seeks to institutionalize the processes of quality assessment as a fundamental attribute to be reached in the Unified Health System. In this context, this dissertation proposes to conduct an assessment of the main curative actions carried out by the dentist in primary care through the structure and process of basic health centers. For this, a cross-sectional study was conducted based on data from 18114 centers of primary health care with oral health services. The outcome was created by means of a series of curative procedures performed by the dentists associated with a minimum structure predetermined. The covariables were related with characteristics of the health center and with the dentist. The results show that 1190 oral health services did not present minimum equipment for dental care and only n=2498 (14,8%) had the maximum quality expected. With regards of the health center characteristics, a positive prevalence for quality was presented in the oral health services with the most professional, which presented greater workload, which the management provided information for health situation analysis, which carried out monitoring of indicators of oral health and which planned and programmed the oral health actions monthly with primary care team. With regards of the dentist, was observed higher quality in that who showed better employment ties, which had career plan, post graduate in public health and accomplish continuing education. It is suggested the necessity to improve the infrastructure of the dental offices of primary health care, as well as incentives to the implementation of the results presented in the health centers and that relating to the SUS health professionals, so that the changes can reflect on improving quality of curative care provided.
Books on the topic "Curative services"
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Gupta, Indrani. Demand for curative health care in rural India: Choosing between private, public, and no care. Institute of Economic Growth, 2000.
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Mokua, Moses. Cost analysis of essential curative health services in church health facilities: Study report. Christian Health Association of Kenya, 2006.
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Mokua, Moses. Cost analysis of essential curative health services in Church health facilities: Study report. Christian Health Association of Kenya, 2006.
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Levin, Ann, and Md Shamsul Islam Khan. Demand for child curative care in two rural thanas of Bangladesh: Effects of income and women's employment. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, 2003.
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Mwesigye, Runumi Francis. Effects of user charges on quality of curative services: A perspective of Uganda's rural health units. s.n., 1995.
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Group, Primary Research. International survey of academic library data curation practices. Primary Research Group, 2013.
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Ltd, ICON Group. CURATIVE HEALTH SERVICES, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series). 2nd ed. Icon Group International, 2000.
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Ltd, ICON Group. CURATIVE HEALTH SERVICES, INC.: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis (Labor Productivity Series). 2nd ed. Icon Group International, 2000.
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Johnson, Kimberly S., and Ramona L. Rhodes. Ethnicity as a Factor. Edited by Stuart J. Youngner and Robert M. Arnold. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199974412.013.20.
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This chapter examines how race or ethnicity affects access to, and the quality of, palliative care by focusing on the experience of African Americans and Hispanics. More specifically, it considers how cultural beliefs, values, and preferences may influence care. It begins by looking at racial and ethnic disparities that exist throughout the health-care continuum, from disease prevention, early diagnosis, and curative treatment, to communication and pain management, lower rates of advance care planning, and lower utilization of hospice and palliative care services. It then explores the preferences of African Americans and Hispanics when it comes to end-of-life care, as well as the role of spirituality and faith in how they cope with illness. The chapter concludes by suggesting strategies and future directions for health-care providers, organizations, policymakers, and researchers on how to improve care for patients of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds.
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Fernando, Buddhika Lalanie, and Athula Sumathipala. Ethics of Public Mental Health in Developing Societies. Edited by John Z. Sadler, K. W. M. Fulford, and Werdie (C W. ). van Staden. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732372.013.53.
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Half of the world’s population lives in countries with one psychiatrist to serve 200,000 people and in low and middle income countries (LAMICs), even most people with severe mental disorders remain untreated. As curative care is prioritized, public mental health is inundated with deep-seated problems, primarily due to the lack of funding. From an ethical perspective, such underlying issues in public mental health exist regardless of income levels; they are, however, further exacerbated by the lack of resources and awareness in LAMICs. Ironically, the ethics of public mental health have received much less attention than that of psychiatric research. We therefore use a public health ethics framework to broaden the ethical perspective in public mental health and examine it from a low-resource setting viewpoint. Next, we examine public mental health from a social justice perspective. Third, we examine issues critical to ensuring better access to mental health services in LAMICs.
Book chapters on the topic "Curative services"
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Pachauri, Saroj, Ash Pachauri, and Komal Mittal. "Self-care: Concept, Rationale, and Framework." In SpringerBriefs in Public Health. Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4578-5_1.
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AbstractThe role and importance of self-care in the continuum of health care are becoming important subjects of debate among social scientists and health professionals. Interest in the self-care component of health services is stimulated by the convergence of diverse pressures common to health services systems. Depersonalized medical care, rising costs of high technology, focus on curative care, growth of lay knowledge, recognition of the limits of medical care, and documentation of the impact of the individual’s health behavior on patterns of morbidity are all factors stimulating new thinking regarding the importance of individuals and families to the effective and efficient functioning of health service systems.
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Ryan, Matthew J., Gerard Verkleij, and Vincent Robert. "Data resources: role and services of culture collections." In Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi. CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789244984.0083.
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Abstract Microbial culture collections (CC) support taxonomy through the provision and preservation of microorganisms, underpinning the integrity of research. However, cultures are essentially worthless without associated data. Details of isolation (geographical location, date of collection, date of isolation), preservation, identification, characterization, growth conditions, properties and applications, etc., make up the key microbial data set that should be associated with every culture. This chapter summarizes the current status of data curation in fungal CCs, assess the challenges of maintaining genomic and bioinformatic data and investigate how collections need to evolve to meet the challenges of data acquisition and maintenance in the future in order to underpin taxonomy.
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Liu, Kun, and Yan Li. "An OOV-Aware Curation Process for Psycholinguistic Analysis of Social Media Text - A Hybrid Approach." In Designing for Digital Transformation. Co-Creating Services with Citizens and Industry. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64823-7_11.
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Dillo, Ingrid, Rene van Horik, and Andrea Scharnhorst. "Training in Data Curation as Service in a Federated Data Infrastructure - The FrontOffice–BackOffice Model." In Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08425-1_23.
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Dillo, Ingrid, Rene van Horik, and Andrea Scharnhorst. "Training in Data Curation as Service in a Federated Data Infrastructure - The FrontOffice–BackOffice Model." In Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14226-5_23.
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Gusmano, Michael K. "Health Services Research." In Urban Health. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190915858.003.0022.
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The physical and social environment clearly characterize cities and influence the health of their residents. Cities, however, also represent places where a wealth of services can be available their residents, thus contributing to their well-being. While the foundations of health are social, cultural, and economic, health services are a critical part of curative care and can contribute to overall health indicators—and health gaps—in urban areas. This chapter grounds the reader in how health services perspectives can inform our understanding of health in cities, offering examples of how health services research can both answer questions and point the way to the next generation of questions that inform urban health scholarship.
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Gassiot-Meilan, Ariadna, Lluís Coromina-Soler, and Lluís Prats Planagumà. "Accessible Tourism in Religious Destinations." In Advances in Hospitality, Tourism, and the Services Industry. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5730-2.ch019.
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People's reasons for visiting religious destinations range from being devoted pilgrims to tourists with secular motivations. People with special access go to specific shrines for curative purposes. They may be differently motivated and display different behaviors at the destination. As they must confront obstacles when travelling, they may be more constrained, leading to different behaviors in terms of satisfaction and loyalty. Thus, the aim of this study is to explore the motivations of those with special access needs and those without when traveling to curative shrines, such as Lourdes, France. First, motivations of these two groups will be compared. Second, the effects of motivations on their travel behavior at the destination will be contrasted. The wide scope of visitors' motivations means that destinations must address all market segments, being crucial to ensure accessibility standards, as this affects not only people with disabilities but also seniors and families with young children.
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Subirosa Sabarguna, Boy. "Clinical Pathway for Improving Quality Service and Cost Containtment in Hospital." In Contemporary Issues in Information Systems - a Global Perspective [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.98596.
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The explanation begins with the Clinical Pathway in Hospital which describes how the Clinical Pathway is used in relation to 2 things: Components-Linkages and Step-Problems-Optimal Solution, followed by Linkages Clinical Pathway with Quality Improvement and Cost Containment, which describes the relationship of each. Followed by the Clinical Pathway for Service Quality: which consists of: (1) Clinical Pathway for Service Quality, (2) Patient Safety for Service Quality Improvement, (3) The role of alogarithm, thereby clarifying the form of clinical pathways in quality improvement efforts that ensure service improvement by still maintain the quality that is maintained during the cost containment. The Clinical Pathway in Cost Containment describes the roles of: (1) Link of Components, (2) Procedure, (3) Unit Cost, so that cost containment efforts can be made in the form of cost containment optimally while maintaining quality does not need to decrease. Clinical Pathway in New Era is a newly developed algorithm related to current and future conditions. This is related to: (1) New Era in Pandemic Covid-19, (2) Clinical Pathway in Non Curative Service, (3) Clinical Pathway in Technology Services, (4) Clinical Pathway in Technological Rerelated while continuing to carry out quality improvement and cost containment simultaneously. Concluton: clinical pathway in hospital can be used as a system for Quality Improvement and Cost Containment, related to New Era in Pandemic Covid-19, Non Curative Service, Technology Services and Technological Rerelated.
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Albawardi, Nada M. "Harnessing Non-Communicable Diseases." In Advances in Human Services and Public Health. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8702-8.ch005.
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Public health services in the developing world have predominately focused on curative rather than preventive strategies for managing communicable diseases. Non-communicable diseases however have now emerged as the leading threat to the health and socio-economic prosperity of these nations. The rising incidence of non-communicable diseases in Saudi Arabia and other Arabian Gulf countries now affects younger populations causing longer periods of ill health and decreased labour output. Prevention is vital in battling non-communicable diseases and reducing the strain on the health care system. Almost all non-communicable diseases share modifiable risk factors that require the attention of health care and other sectors to introduce greater preventive measures. This chapter will discuss factors contributing to the obstacles the health systems of countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council face in meeting the growing burden of non-communicable diseases and the steps taken to meet these challenges.
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Mariel de Sousa Vasconcelos, Gisele, Alana Maiara Brito Bibiano, Lucas Fernando Rodrigues dos Santos, and Rafael da Silveira Moreira. "Associated Factors and Use of Health Services by Elderly Men in Northeast Brazil." In Healthcare Access [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.98605.
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The objective of the research was to analyze the factors associated with the use of health services by elderly men in the Northeast region of Brazil. Cross-sectional analytical study with a secondary database of elderly men (n = 3238). The dependent variable was composed of the profiles of the use of health services and the independent variables were factors of predisposition, capacity, and health need. The statistical association and effect were performed using the Rao-Scott test with p < 0.05 and multinomial logistic regression. Elderly men with worse social indicators had a risk effect for using medium/high complexity services and those who had better health indicators were associated with sporadic medical appointment, revealing that health care for elderly men is centered on curative and rehabilitative care and that the use of health services is associated with the worst social indicators.
Conference papers on the topic "Curative services"
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Dewi, Ni Putu Juwanita. "The Implementation of Public Service in General Hospital of Sukabumi City, West Java." In The 7th International Conference on Public Health 2020. Masters Program in Public Health, Universitas Sebelas Maret, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.26911/the7thicph.04.08.
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ABSTRACT Background: A hospital is a facility to provide a health service which is primarily give access to curative health. The demands of the public for better services is a need that must be met by government agencies that provide health services. This study aimed to observe the implementation of public service in general hospital of Sukabumi City West Java. Subjects and Method: This study used a qualitative method using a frame of mind from Edward III’s Policy Theory. The data were conducted by enrolled a tot al of 16 informants. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, observation, and review of documents related to public services at general hospital of Sukabumi city. The data were analyzed descriptively. Results: In this study, the implementation of public services at the general hospital of Sukabumi City had been running well but was not optimal and required improvement in several aspects. There is a need of regular meetings to discuss the implementation of public services, monitoring and evaluation by the board of directors, communication training for hospital staff, especially employees who deal directly with patients and / or patients’ families, repair, improvement of public facilities at the Sukabumi City Hospital, and there should be a special department to coordinate the implementation of public services. Conclusion: The implementation of public services at the general hospital of Sukabumi City has been running well. The optimalization and improvement are needed for this hospital. Keywords: implementation, public service, hospital Correspondence: Ni Putu Juwanita Dewi. RSUD R. Syamsudin, SH General Hospital, Sukabumi, Law College of Pasundan, Sukabumi, 43313, West Java, Indonesia. Email: happynitadewi@gmail.com. Mobile Phone: +62817438713 DOI: https://doi.org/10.26911/the7thicph.04.08
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Lo, Chi-Chun, Ding-Yuan Cheng, and Chi-Hua Chen. "A Semantic Web Methodology for Situation-Aware Curative Food Service Recommendation System." In 2008 International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering. IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/csse.2008.519.
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Kudo, Michiharu, Kumiko Maeda, and Fumiko Satoh. "Adaptable Privacy-Preserving Data Curation for Business Process Analysis Services." In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/scc.2016.60.
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Miyamoto, Kohtaroh, Akira Koseki, and Masaki Ohno. "Effective data curation for frequently asked questions." In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics and Informatics (SOLI). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/soli.2017.8120960.
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Myers, James, Margaret Hedstrom, Dharma Akmon, et al. "Towards Sustainable Curation and Preservation: The SEAD Project's Data Services Approach." In 2015 IEEE 11th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/escience.2015.56.
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Zhang, Jing, and Fang Zhao. "A Study on Library Service Innovation Based on Data Curation." In 2017 13th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grids (SKG). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/skg.2017.00044.
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Gartner, Richard. "Ascending the Pyramid Librarians, Metadata and the Curation of Culture." In 2018 5th International Symposium on Emerging Trends and Technologies in Libraries and Information Services (ETTLIS). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ettlis.2018.8485252.
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Kim, Daehoon, Jae-Gil Lee, and Byung Suk Lee. "Topical influence modeling via topic-level interests and interactions on social curation services." In 2016 IEEE 32nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icde.2016.7498225.
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Lucero, Andrés, Martin Porcheron, and Joel E. Fischer. "Collaborative use of mobile devices to curate sources of inspiration." In MobileHCI '16: 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. ACM, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2957265.2961830.
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Ramos Waitman, Daniele, Amanda Salles Margatho, and Carmen Silvia Gabriel. "Impacto econômico do uso do curativo gel de clorexidina no cateter venoso central em pacientes críticos." In Congresso Internacional de Qualidade em Serviços e Sistemas de Saúde. Galoa, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.17648/qualihosp-2017-69533.
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Jigjidsuren, Altantuya, Bayar Oyun, and Najibullah Habib. Supporting Primary Health Care in Mongolia: Experiences, Lessons Learned, and Future Directions. Asian Development Bank, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/wps210020-2.
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ince the early 1990s, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has broadly supported health sector reforms in Mongolia. This paper describes primary health care (PHC) in Mongolia and ADB support in its reform. It highlights results achieved and the lessons drawn that could be useful for future programs in Mongolia and other countries. PHC reform in Mongolia aimed at facilitating a shift from hospital-based curative services toward preventive approaches. It included introducing new management models based on public–private partnerships, increasing the range of services, applying more effective financing methods, building human resources, and creating better infrastructure. The paper outlines remaining challenges and future directions for ADB support to PHC reform in the country.
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Taylor, Karen, Emily Moynihan, and Information Technology Laboratory (U S. ). Information Science and Knowledge Management Branch. The Forefront : A Review of ERDC Publications, Spring 2021. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/40902.
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The Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is the premier civil works engineering and environmental sciences research and development arm of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). As such, it partners with the Army, Department of Defense (DoD), federal agencies, and civilian organizations to help solve our Nation’s most challenging problems in civil and military engineering, geospatial sciences, water resources, and environmental sciences. A special government knowledge center, ERDC Information Technology Laboratory’s Information Science and Knowledge Management (ISKM) Branch is critical to ERDC’s mission, fulfilling research requirements by offering a variety of editing and library services to advance the creation, dissemination, and curation of ERDC and USACE research knowledge. Serving as the publishing authority for the ERDC, ISKM publishes all ERDC technical publications to the Digital Repository Knowledge Core, sends a copy to the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) and creates a press release about each publication on the ERDC website. The Forefront seeks to provide an additional mechanism for highlighting some of our technical publications to the ERDC, USACE, Army, and DoD communities. This publication also encourages those outside ERDC to contact us about using ERDC editing services. For more information regarding the reports highlighted in this publications or others that ERDC researchers’ have created, please contact the ISKM virtual reference desk at erdclibrary@ask-a-librarian.info or visit the ISKM’s online repository, Knowledge Core, at https://erdc-library.erdc.dren.mil/ .
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African Open Science Platform Part 1: Landscape Study. Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2019/0047.
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This report maps the African landscape of Open Science – with a focus on Open Data as a sub-set of Open Science. Data to inform the landscape study were collected through a variety of methods, including surveys, desk research, engagement with a community of practice, networking with stakeholders, participation in conferences, case study presentations, and workshops hosted. Although the majority of African countries (35 of 54) demonstrates commitment to science through its investment in research and development (R&D), academies of science, ministries of science and technology, policies, recognition of research, and participation in the Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI), the following countries demonstrate the highest commitment and political willingness to invest in science: Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. In addition to existing policies in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), the following countries have made progress towards Open Data policies: Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, South Africa and Uganda. Only two African countries (Kenya and South Africa) at this stage contribute 0.8% of its GDP (Gross Domestic Product) to R&D (Research and Development), which is the closest to the AU’s (African Union’s) suggested 1%. Countries such as Lesotho and Madagascar ranked as 0%, while the R&D expenditure for 24 African countries is unknown. In addition to this, science globally has become fully dependent on stable ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) infrastructure, which includes connectivity/bandwidth, high performance computing facilities and data services. This is especially applicable since countries globally are finding themselves in the midst of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR), which is not only “about” data, but which “is” data. According to an article1 by Alan Marcus (2015) (Senior Director, Head of Information Technology and Telecommunications Industries, World Economic Forum), “At its core, data represents a post-industrial opportunity. Its uses have unprecedented complexity, velocity and global reach. As digital communications become ubiquitous, data will rule in a world where nearly everyone and everything is connected in real time. That will require a highly reliable, secure and available infrastructure at its core, and innovation at the edge.” Every industry is affected as part of this revolution – also science. An important component of the digital transformation is “trust” – people must be able to trust that governments and all other industries (including the science sector), adequately handle and protect their data. This requires accountability on a global level, and digital industries must embrace the change and go for a higher standard of protection. “This will reassure consumers and citizens, benefitting the whole digital economy”, says Marcus. A stable and secure information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure – currently provided by the National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) – is key to advance collaboration in science. The AfricaConnect2 project (AfricaConnect (2012–2014) and AfricaConnect2 (2016–2018)) through establishing connectivity between National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), is planning to roll out AfricaConnect3 by the end of 2019. The concern however is that selected African governments (with the exception of a few countries such as South Africa, Mozambique, Ethiopia and others) have low awareness of the impact the Internet has today on all societal levels, how much ICT (and the 4th Industrial Revolution) have affected research, and the added value an NREN can bring to higher education and research in addressing the respective needs, which is far more complex than simply providing connectivity. Apart from more commitment and investment in R&D, African governments – to become and remain part of the 4th Industrial Revolution – have no option other than to acknowledge and commit to the role NRENs play in advancing science towards addressing the SDG (Sustainable Development Goals). For successful collaboration and direction, it is fundamental that policies within one country are aligned with one another. Alignment on continental level is crucial for the future Pan-African African Open Science Platform to be successful. Both the HIPSSA ((Harmonization of ICT Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa)3 project and WATRA (the West Africa Telecommunications Regulators Assembly)4, have made progress towards the regulation of the telecom sector, and in particular of bottlenecks which curb the development of competition among ISPs. A study under HIPSSA identified potential bottlenecks in access at an affordable price to the international capacity of submarine cables and suggested means and tools used by regulators to remedy them. Work on the recommended measures and making them operational continues in collaboration with WATRA. In addition to sufficient bandwidth and connectivity, high-performance computing facilities and services in support of data sharing are also required. The South African National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System5 (NICIS) has made great progress in planning and setting up a cyberinfrastructure ecosystem in support of collaborative science and data sharing. The regional Southern African Development Community6 (SADC) Cyber-infrastructure Framework provides a valuable roadmap towards high-speed Internet, developing human capacity and skills in ICT technologies, high- performance computing and more. The following countries have been identified as having high-performance computing facilities, some as a result of the Square Kilometre Array7 (SKA) partnership: Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa, Tunisia, and Zambia. More and more NRENs – especially the Level 6 NRENs 8 (Algeria, Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, and recently Zambia) – are exploring offering additional services; also in support of data sharing and transfer. The following NRENs already allow for running data-intensive applications and sharing of high-end computing assets, bio-modelling and computation on high-performance/ supercomputers: KENET (Kenya), TENET (South Africa), RENU (Uganda), ZAMREN (Zambia), EUN (Egypt) and ARN (Algeria). Fifteen higher education training institutions from eight African countries (Botswana, Benin, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, and Tanzania) have been identified as offering formal courses on data science. In addition to formal degrees, a number of international short courses have been developed and free international online courses are also available as an option to build capacity and integrate as part of curricula. The small number of higher education or research intensive institutions offering data science is however insufficient, and there is a desperate need for more training in data science. The CODATA-RDA Schools of Research Data Science aim at addressing the continental need for foundational data skills across all disciplines, along with training conducted by The Carpentries 9 programme (specifically Data Carpentry 10 ). Thus far, CODATA-RDA schools in collaboration with AOSP, integrating content from Data Carpentry, were presented in Rwanda (in 2018), and during17-29 June 2019, in Ethiopia. Awareness regarding Open Science (including Open Data) is evident through the 12 Open Science-related Open Access/Open Data/Open Science declarations and agreements endorsed or signed by African governments; 200 Open Access journals from Africa registered on the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ); 174 Open Access institutional research repositories registered on openDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories); 33 Open Access/Open Science policies registered on ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies); 24 data repositories registered with the Registry of Data Repositories (re3data.org) (although the pilot project identified 66 research data repositories); and one data repository assigned the CoreTrustSeal. Although this is a start, far more needs to be done to align African data curation and research practices with global standards. Funding to conduct research remains a challenge. African researchers mostly fund their own research, and there are little incentives for them to make their research and accompanying data sets openly accessible. Funding and peer recognition, along with an enabling research environment conducive for research, are regarded as major incentives. The landscape report concludes with a number of concerns towards sharing research data openly, as well as challenges in terms of Open Data policy, ICT infrastructure supportive of data sharing, capacity building, lack of skills, and the need for incentives. Although great progress has been made in terms of Open Science and Open Data practices, more awareness needs to be created and further advocacy efforts are required for buy-in from African governments. A federated African Open Science Platform (AOSP) will not only encourage more collaboration among researchers in addressing the SDGs, but it will also benefit the many stakeholders identified as part of the pilot phase. The time is now, for governments in Africa, to acknowledge the important role of science in general, but specifically Open Science and Open Data, through developing and aligning the relevant policies, investing in an ICT infrastructure conducive for data sharing through committing funding to making NRENs financially sustainable, incentivising open research practices by scientists, and creating opportunities for more scientists and stakeholders across all disciplines to be trained in data management.