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Impact of dengue research funded by the Ministry of Health in Brazil

2025· article· en· W4411140654 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueSaúde em Debate · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicMosquito-borne diseases and control
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
KeywordsChristian ministryDengue feverEnvironmental healthVirologyMedicinePolitical science

Abstract

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ABSTRACT This study assessed the impact of 24 dengue research projects funded by the Department of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Health, in partnership with the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, in the years 2006, 2008, and 2012, using the dimensions of knowledge advancement, research capacity, informed decision-making, and health impacts as reference from the Impact Evaluation Framework of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Data were collected through document reviews, questionnaires, and interviews with the coordinators of the dengue research projects. A total of 1,107 impacts were identified, with the majority in the dimensions of knowledge advancement (712) and research capacity (314). Within these two dimensions, notable mentions include disseminating results at conferences (390) and publishing scientific articles (166). There was less impact in the dimensions of decision-making (75) and health impacts (7); however, it is essential to highlight the dissemination of research results in the media (43) and impacts on health determinants (5). This study highlighted the diversity of impacts produced by dengue research across the evaluated dimensions, demonstrating the importance of impact evaluation in identifying benefits and justifying investments. Thus, it contributes to strengthening the capacity of the Brazilian research system to address dengue.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.529
Threshold uncertainty score0.334

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.032
GPT teacher head0.438
Teacher spread0.406 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it