La santé de chacun comme souci de tous

A partir des notions de "sanitarisation du social" et de "politisation de la santé" proposées par D. Fassin, cet article met en évidence les écueils et effets potentiellement problématiques de l'évolution actuelle de la prise en charge préventive de la santé, notamment dans le domaine des dépendances où le sujet individuel occupe une place prédominante.

Marmora at the Tarraco of the Antonines: the assemblage of Sant Pau and Santa Tecla Hospital (Tarragona, Spain)

This paper presents an assemblage of marmora found during the archaeological excavation undertaken in 1992, a small part of the site where the Hospital of Sant Pau and Santa Tecla stands today, at Rambla Vella of Tarragona (Spain). Most of them are coloured marmora from a wide range of quarries: not only local (Santa Tecla stone, Alcover stone) and regional (broccatello) but also imported, such as giallo antico, pavonnazzetto, africano, portasanta, porfido rosso, serpentino, breccia di Settebasi. Even though some fine-grained, white marble fragments were also found, they are not being discussed here. Despite the small number of fragments recovered, this set is highly interesting as they were found in a clear, well-dated stratigraphical context: a soil from 125-150 AD that filled up some sort of building from Augustan times. The location of the site, on the limits of the upper part of the town, which was devoted to public areas (mainly related to the imperial worship, the provincial government and public), and the lower part of Tarraco, where the other activities (residential, colonial govern, etc) took place, is also significant. Therefore, both its location and its date are significant, as during this period the upper part of Roman Tarraco underwent major urban modifications which gave it the magnificence worthy of the capital of the largest province of the western part of Roman Empire.

Forecasting tourism demand to Catalonia: neural networks vs. time series models

The increasing interest aroused by more advanced forecasting techniques, together with the requirement for more accurate forecasts of tourismdemand at the destination level due to the constant growth of world tourism, has lead us to evaluate the forecasting performance of neural modelling relative to that of time seriesmethods at a regional level. Seasonality and volatility are important features of tourism data, which makes it a particularly favourable context in which to compare the forecasting performance of linear models to that of nonlinear alternative approaches. Pre-processed official statistical data of overnight stays and tourist arrivals fromall the different countries of origin to Catalonia from 2001 to 2009 is used in the study. When comparing the forecasting accuracy of the different techniques for different time horizons, autoregressive integrated moving average models outperform self-exciting threshold autoregressions and artificial neural network models, especially for shorter horizons. These results suggest that the there is a trade-off between the degree of pre-processing and the accuracy of the forecasts obtained with neural networks, which are more suitable in the presence of nonlinearity in the data. In spite of the significant differences between countries, which can be explained by different patterns of consumer behaviour,we also find that forecasts of tourist arrivals aremore accurate than forecasts of overnight stays.

L'exemple de la Suisse : le rôle des consommateurs dans la concurrence des systèmes de santé

Dans ce chapitre nous nous intéressons au fonctionnement de la concurrence en assurance santé dans le système suisse. Plus particulièrement, nous proposons d'analyser le rôle des consommateurs dans le fonctionnement de cette concurrence. Dans la première partie, nous décrivons rapidement les caractéristiques du système de compétition encadrée en Suisse. La seconde partie suggère que le système actuel souffre d'un certain nombre de dysfonctionnements révélés par la faible mobilité des assurés. La troisième partie analyse les raisons pour lesquelles les assurés ne font pas jouer la concurrence et suggère ainsi des pistes pour améliorer la régulation actuelle. [Auteure, p. 151-152]

Adaptació metrològica grega en l'arquitectura ibèrica de Catalunya: Puig de Sant Andreu d'Ullastret i Mas Castellar de Pontós

En el presente artículo se analiza la adopción en el contexto ibérico catalán de los patrones métricos característicos de las colonias griegas del Mediterráneo occidental. La determinación de la unidad de medida constructiva empleada, así como de su aplicación, ha sido posible mediante la identificación de los principios geométricos estructurales de las torres defensivas ibéricas.

Poblenou y La Mina [Barcelona], participacion creativa con la metodologia de las CPBoxes

En el último año, en la reunión del Public Art Observatory en Lisboa (septiembre 2002) y en el marco del congreso User (marzo 2003), presentamos uno de nuestros proyectos iniciado en el 2001 y centrado en la búsqueda de metodologías de participación ciudadana para el desarrollo de propuestas de arte público o diseño de espacio público: las denominadas CPBoxes (cajas de acotaciones y tendencias). Ahora, después de la realización de distintas dinámicas de participación ciudadana, tanto en el barrio de La Mina como en el de Poblenou, ambas zonas urbanas de Barcelona caracterizadas por los profundos cambios urbanos y sociales a los que se hayan sometidas, hemos percibido que la metodología propuesta ha resultado ser, no sólo herramienta perfecta para averiguar la percepción y significado que los ciudadanos otorgan a su espacio, sino excelente instrumento de dinamización cultural y educativa para realizar con grupos escolares de educación secundaria con el objetivo de descubrir y conocer conceptos relacionados con la ciudad y el espacio urbano.