Rethinking Trust and Public Health Compliance: Introducing a Trust Continuum for Policy and Practice
- 주제(키워드) Trust , vaccine hesitancy , compliance , global health
- 주제(기타) Health Policy & Services; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
- 설명문(일반) [Fox, Ashley; Kim, Heeun] SUNY Albany, Rockefeller Coll Publ Affairs & Policy, Dept Publ Adm & Policy, Albany, NY 12222 USA; [Fan, Victoria Y.] Ctr Global Dev, Washington, DC USA; [Fan, Victoria Y.] Univ Hawaii Manoa, Coll Social Sci, Honolulu, HI USA; [Kim, Heeun] Univ Calif Los Angeles UCLA, Fielding Sch Publ Hlth, Los Angeles, CA USA; [Kang, Minah] Ewha Womans Univ, Dept Publ Adm, Seoul, South Korea
- 등재 SSCI, SCOPUS
- OA유형 Gold
- 발행기관 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
- 발행년도 2025
- 총서유형 Journal
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000245399
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As https://doi.org/10.1080/23288604.2025.2457239
- PubMed https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39932484
초록/요약
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.
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