Ben Youssef Sarra, Ben Alaya Marwen, Ben Abdelaziz Ahmed
Tunis Med. 2018 Oct-Nov;96(10-11):719-730.
With the aim of rebuilding the memory of the specialty of Preventive Medicine and Community Medicine (MPC) in Tunisia, through its indexed scientific publications, the objective of this work was to describe the thematic and methodological profile of indexed scientific research, of this specialty over four decades.
This is a descriptive bibliometric study of MPC articles, indexed in the Medline database over a 40-year period (1975-2014), and based on their Medline Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS). All articles of which the first and / or last authors were MPC university hospital teachers, in one of Tunisia's four faculties of medicine, were included. The themes of the publications were defined through the major keywords (Majr), and categorized according to the following five groups: "non-communicable diseases", "communicable diseases", "violence and traumatisms", "management of health services" and "Research and pedagogy".
Among 1664 articles captured by the Medline-based documentary request, 594 had as their first authors, teachers of the MPC specialty and 365 articles were eligible for study. The productivity of the specialty of MPC increased from 29 publications between 1975 and 1984, to 167 between 2005 and 2014. The magazine "La Tunisie Médicale" published 37.6% of the articles of this specialty. Four out of ten MPC papers referred to hospital structures and 35% of them were cross-sectional observational studies. Over the decades, an increase in research topics related to "non-communicable diseases" versus "communicable diseases" has been noted in MPC.
In Tunisia, research in MPC has been relatively prolific and globally consistent with the health needs of the population (impacted by the epidemiological transition). The orientation of research projects towards community-based proposals, of high methodological level and mobilizing multidisciplinary teams, would be necessary for the improvement of the quality and relevance of publications in MPC.
为了通过其被索引的科学出版物重建突尼斯预防医学与社区医学（MPC）专业的记忆，本研究的目的是描述该专业四十年来被索引的科学研究的主题和方法概况。
这是一项对MPC文章的描述性文献计量研究，这些文章在40年期间（1975 - 2014年）被索引到Medline数据库中，并基于它们的Medline材料安全数据表（MSDS）。所有第一作者和/或最后作者是突尼斯四所医学院之一的MPC大学医院教师的文章都被纳入。出版物的主题通过主要关键词（Majr）来定义，并根据以下五组进行分类：“非传染性疾病”、“传染性疾病”、“暴力与创伤”、“卫生服务管理”以及“研究与教学”。
在基于Medline的文献检索捕获的1664篇文章中，594篇的第一作者是MPC专业的教师，365篇文章符合研究条件。MPC专业的生产力从1975年至1984年期间的29篇出版物增加到2005年至2014年期间的167篇。《突尼斯医学》杂志发表了该专业37.6%的文章。十分之四的MPC论文涉及医院结构，其中35%是横断面观察性研究。几十年来，MPC中与“非传染性疾病”相关的研究主题相对于“传染性疾病”有所增加。
在突尼斯，MPC领域的研究相对丰富，总体上与人群的健康需求（受流行病学转变影响）一致。为提高MPC领域出版物的质量和相关性，有必要将研究项目导向基于社区的建议，这些建议要有高方法水平并动员多学科团队。
