Disability access. Open season

A disability access audit carried out at a trust operating over 50 sites revealed that a 2.3m Pounds programme of work was needed. The audit took four months, with the team spending a day at each of the premises. The audit has been followed by a staff training programme in disability awareness. The trust's information systems now show if a patient did not attend an appointment because of difficulties with physical access. All letters to patients are produced in a minimum 12-point type.     

Open access and article processing charges

Substance Abuse, Treatment, Prevention, and Policy uses a medium that provides the broadest possible worldwide readership. Anyone in the world can read articles without charge. Since the articles published here will hopefully help inform policy this is exactly the right target – free and unlimited access. Beginning July 2006, article-processing charges will be applied to papers published in this journal.     

Open access and article processing charges

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy (SATPP) is an open access, peer-reviewed international journal of original research and scholarship that focuses on policy issues in the treatment and prevention of substance use disorders. Separate and often disparate public systems deal with substance use problems as well as provide treatment and prevention. This journal will provide an environment for the exchange of ideas, new research, consensus papers, and critical reviews that bridge fields that share a common goal of reducing the problems caused by drugs and alcohol. The agenda is simple; a new forum for integrating thoughts, issues, and developments.     

国内学术期刊开放获取现状研究

【目的】 通过调研物理学,自动化技术、计算机技术(除计算机网络、安全保密)和图书馆事业、信息事业3个学科期刊的开放获取(Open Access,OA)现状,为我国学术期刊的OA发展提供改进思路。【方法】 通过对3个学科70种学术期刊的OA现状进行调研分析,从OA途径、OA类型、收费情况、版权情况、存储情况等角度分析这些期刊的OA现状及存在的问题。【结果】 3个学科有85.7%的学术期刊实现了OA出版,在OA的时效性、资源的可获取性,以及收费、版权和存储等OA政策的制定与实施方面依然存在一些不足。【结论】 应从完善现有期刊OA体系、整合各学科OA期刊平台和创新期刊OA发展模式几个角度,推进我国学术期刊OA建设。     

开放获取——学术期刊低成本高显示度的重要出版策略

【目的】了解国内外开放获取的发展现状,分析实现开放获取对学术期刊的影响。【方法】研究Springer旗下新刊Nanoscale Research Letters和Nano Research以及进行开放获取改造后的现有学报Optics Express、Cell Research的出版速度、下载量、影响力等。【结果】数字化出版、开放获取是新创办学术期刊低成本高显示度的重要途径,也是快速提高期刊学术影响力的重要出版形式。数字化在线开放获取已经被Nature、Science、Cell实践于新刊创办中,也是NPG集团与我国合作创办新刊的出版模式。【结论】学术期刊在出版传播方式上采用开放获取是取得快速成功的重要因素之一,与世界知名且相对成熟的数字化出版商合作,借用其便捷成熟的Open Access通道,可以提高读者覆盖范围、传播效率和下载频次。     

Open access: a giant leap towards bridging health inequities

Access to health research publications is an essential requirement in securing the chain of communication from the researcher to the front-line health worker. As the diagram of the knowledge cycle from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research shows, health knowledge generated in the world’s laboratories is passed down the information chain through publications, through its impact and application, its subsequent “translation” into appropriate contexts for different user communities, arriving finally with health workers and the general public. This article focuses on the first link in the chain, from research author to reader, and the free online access to peer-reviewed published articles that are the building blocks for future health innovation developments.     

删除"乙肝病毒血清检查"!

7月5日，深圳市卫生局发出通知，要求任何医疗机构不得将乙肝病毒血清检查作为体检的常规项目，开单检查前应征得体检者本人的同意或体检者单位的授权，同时要注意保护乙肝表面抗原携带者的隐私权。消息一经公布就引起社会各界的广泛关注。大家在肯定深圳卫生部门此举有助保障乙肝表面抗原携带者就业权利的同时，对该新举措推出的可操作性以及实际效果也提出疑问。     

Healthcare delivery for paediatric and adolescent diabetes in low resource settings: Type 1 diabetes clinics in Uganda

ABSTRACT

The management of type 1 diabetes (T1DM) includes setting up organised follow-up clinics. A programme for establishing such clinics in Uganda commenced in 2009. The clinics were established along the chronic care model and were integrated into the health structure of other chronic diseases. Web-based electronic medical records were utilised to establish a centralised registry. All children with diabetes below 18 years of age were encouraged to enrol into the programme by attending the nearest established T1DM clinic. At the commencement of the programme, there were 178 patients with T1DM receiving care in various health facilities but without organised follow-up T1DM clinics. These patients were subsequently enrolled into the programme and as of June 30, 2018, the programme had a total of 32 clinics with 1187 children; 3 with neonatal diabetes. Challenges encountered included difficulties in timely diagnosis, failure to provide adequate care in the remote rural areas and failure to achieve pre-defined glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) goals. Despite these challenges, this observational study demonstrates that healthcare delivery for T1DM organised along the chronic care model and supported by web-based electronic medical records is achievable and provides care that is sustainable. Addressing the encountered challenges should result in improved outcomes for T1DM.