Irregular migrants and asylum seekers have died and continue to die attempting to cross the external borders of the EU without authorisation, seeking to enter the territories of its Member States. Yet, remarkably little is known about these 'border deaths'. In 2015, the Human Costs of Border Control project published the Deaths at the Borders Database for the Southern EU, an open-source 'evidence base' of individualised information about people who have died border deaths between 1990 and 2013, sourced from the death management systems of Spain, Gibraltar, Italy, Malta and Greece. It is the first database on border deaths in the EU to be based on official sources as opposed to the news media. The project involved searching 563 state-run death registry archives and deductively selecting the death certificates of persons who died border deaths. This paper describes, in detail, the making of the Deaths at the Borders Database: from the systematic, multisited, quantitative data collection and qualitative case studies, to the construction and final results of the Database itself. ARTICLE HISTORY

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In this article, we describe the different stages of the rise and decline of Primary Health Care and, in particular, its community approach; we do so by providing a historical journey of the relationship between the Spanish National Health System and community health, outlining the connections and disconnections with Public Health as well as the influence of dominant political ideologies. We defend a community reorientation of health services, considering community health as an essential part of Primary Health Care, and in accordance with the Alma Ata strategy and the principles of the Ottawa Charter. The Primary Health System is taken up as the strategic axis of the National Health System, given its capacity for an integral approach to health-disease processes, and the possibility it poses for reducing inequalities and confronting social determinants as well as overcoming inequities in health, with the participation of the population and in coordination with other sectors. The challenges of the immediate future, as well as the consequences of the economic crisis, the cuts, and the weakening of the Welfare State, make evident the need to promote participatory processes that involve all the social actors and, above all, the citizenship -considered not as a recipient and'user' or consumer, but as an active and collaborative subject. These participatory processes aim at creating a new collective culture regarding the sustainability and universality of existing public health resources.

Resumen: El propósito de este trabajo es realizar un análisis bibliométrico en el campo del management de operaciones, en concreto el tema que relaciona flexibilidad operativa y la performance empresarial, en el periodo 1981-2011. En el análisis se aplican tanto indicadores de actividad (cuantificación de autores, revistas o Ley de Lotka) como de relación (citas por autor y revista, co-citación entre autores y análisis de co-palabras) utilizando como fuente de datos el Social Sciences Citation Index de Web of Science. Los resultados proporcionados por los indicadores de actividad han puesto de manifiesto que se trata de un campo de estudio relativamente reciente, en el que se verifica el cumplimiento de la ley de Lotka, y en el que los autores y revistas más productivos no necesariamente coinciden con los más citados. El análisis de co-citas ha identificado los autores que constituyen el marco teórico consolidado de referencia. Por último, el análisis de co-palabras ha permitido identificar las temáticas de investigación que conforman el ámbito de estudio y su clasificación en ampliamente desarrolladas, periféricas especializadas, periféricas poco desarrolladas y emergentes, a las que se debe prestar atención para contribuir al desarrollo y consolidación del campo.Palabras clave: Indicadores bibliométricos; ley de Lotka; co-citación de autores; co-palabras; flexibilidad operacional; performance; Social Sciences Citation Index. Relationship between operational flexibility and performance through bibliometric techniquesAbstract: The purpose of this paper is to present a bibliometric analysis in the field of operations management, specifically the issue that relates operational flexibility with business performance during the period 1981-2011. The analysis applies indicators concerning both activity (quantification of authors, journals or Lotka's Law) and relationships (citations by author, journal co-citation between authors and co-word analysis) using the Web of Science's Social Sciences Citation Index as a data source. The results provided by the activity indicators show that it is a relatively recent field of study, which verifies compliance with the Lotka's Law, and where the most productive authors and journals do not necessarily coincide with the most cited ones. The co-citation analysis has identified authors of reference in the field. Finally, the co-word analysis has allowed the identification of the research topics comprising the area of study and classified into widely developed issues, specialized peripheral issues, peripheral underdeveloped issues, and emerging subject matters. These are the most relevant, in that they identify important current issues that are still poorly developed.

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