Rethinking Trust and Public Health Compliance: Introducing a Trust Continuum for Policy and Practice.

• Tác giả: Victoria Y Fan, Ashley Fox, Minah Kang, Heeun Kim
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 025.04 Information storage and retrieval systems
• Thông tin xuất bản: United States : Health systems and reform , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 55223

Tóm tắt

 Trust in government has emerged as one of the strongest predictors of national performance in fighting COVID-19. This commentary aims to take stock of the vast literature on trust and compliance with public health measures that has emerged during the pandemic to synthesize policy-relevant recommendations about: 1) How to conceptualize trust
  2) Whether trust is always deserved
  and 3) How governments can earn (appropriate levels of) trust. Based on a critical reading of the literature, we develop a framework that conceptualizes trust as falling along a continuum ranging from extreme distrust to blind trust with the ideal point- "informed" or "basic" trust-falling in the mid-point of the continuum. We illustrate the continuum with examples and provide recommendations regarding how governments can build more nuanced disease responses that account for individuals and sub-groups at different rungs on the continuum while (re)building trust. We conclude that trust-building is a long-term project that must continue in non-crisis times.