Dishonesty during a pandemic: The concealment of COVID-19 information

Journal of Health Psychology ◽

10.1177/1359105320951603 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 135910532095160

Author(s):

Alison M O’Connor ◽

Angela D Evans

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Information ◽

Psychological Theory ◽

Social Distancing ◽

Health Initiatives ◽

Communal Orientation ◽

Public Health Initiatives

Honest disclosures of COVID-19 behaviors and symptoms is critical. A sample of adults on MTurk ( N = 451, 20–82 years of age) were asked if they have concealed social distancing practices, COVID-19 symptoms, and quarantine instructions, as well as how they evaluated others’ COVID-19 concealment. Those who believed they had contracted COVID-19 engaged in greater rates of concealment and evaluated concealment more positively compared to those without the virus. As age and communal orientation increased, COVID-19 concealment behaviors decreased, and evaluations of this concealment were rated more negatively. Implications for public health initiatives and psychological theory on concealing health information is discussed.

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Complaint-Oriented “Services”: Shelters as Tools for Criminalizing Homelessness

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ◽

10.1177/0002716221996703 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 693 (1) ◽

pp. 264-283

Author(s):

Chris Herring

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

San Francisco ◽

Homeless People ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Health Initiatives ◽

Public Health Initiatives

This article argues that the expansion of shelter and welfare provisions for the homeless can lead to increased criminalization of homeless people in public spaces. First, I document how repression of people experiencing homelessness by the police in San Francisco neighborhoods increased immediately after the opening of new shelters. Second, I reveal how shelter beds are used as a privileged tool of the police to arrest, cite, and confiscate property of the unhoused, albeit in the guise of sanitary and public health initiatives. I conclude by considering how shelters increasingly function as complaint-oriented “services,” aimed at addressing the interests of residents, businesses, and politicians, rather than the needs of those unhoused.

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Advancing precision public health using human genomics: examples from the field and future research opportunities

Genome Medicine ◽

10.1186/s13073-021-00911-0 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Megan C. Roberts ◽

Alison E. Fohner ◽

Latrice Landry ◽

Dana Lee Olstad ◽

Amelia K. Smit ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Precision Medicine ◽

Behavioral Science ◽

Public Health Research ◽

Future Research ◽

Human Genomics ◽

Precision Public Health ◽

Genomics Research ◽

Health Initiatives ◽

Public Health Initiatives

AbstractPrecision public health is a relatively new field that integrates components of precision medicine, such as human genomics research, with public health concepts to help improve population health. Despite interest in advancing precision public health initiatives using human genomics research, current and future opportunities in this emerging field remain largely undescribed. To that end, we provide examples of promising opportunities and current applications of genomics research within precision public health and outline future directions within five major domains of public health: biostatistics, environmental health, epidemiology, health policy and health services, and social and behavioral science. To further extend applications of genomics within precision public health research, three key cross-cutting challenges will need to be addressed: developing policies that implement precision public health initiatives at multiple levels, improving data integration and developing more rigorous methodologies, and incorporating initiatives that address health equity. Realizing the potential to better integrate human genomics within precision public health will require transdisciplinary efforts that leverage the strengths of both precision medicine and public health.

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Evaluating the impact of public health initiatives on trends in fecal occult blood test participation in Ontario

BMC Cancer ◽

10.1186/1471-2407-14-537 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Gladys N Honein-AbouHaidar ◽

Linda Rabeneck ◽

Lawrence F Paszat ◽

Rinku Sutradhar ◽

Jill Tinmouth ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Blood Test ◽

Fecal Occult Blood Test ◽

Occult Blood ◽

Fecal Occult Blood ◽

Occult Blood Test ◽

Fecal Occult ◽

Health Initiatives ◽

The Impact ◽

Public Health Initiatives

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Highlighting COVID-19 Racial Disparities Reduces Fear and Support for Safety Precautions

10.31219/osf.io/td4cs ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Allison Skinner-Dorkenoo ◽

Apoorva Sarmal ◽

Kasheena Rogbeer ◽

Chloe Jeanne Andre ◽

Bhumi Patel ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Racial Disparities ◽

Health Information ◽

People Of Color ◽

Racial Inequalities ◽

Social Distancing ◽

Correlational Design ◽

Public Health Information ◽

Residents Attitudes

U.S. media has extensively covered racial disparities in COVID-19 infections and deaths. In two preregistered studies, we examined how the association between people of color and COVID-19 impacts White U.S. residents’ attitudes toward COVID-19 and people of color. Utilizing a correlational design (N = 498), we found that awareness of COVID-19 racial disparities predicted reduced fear of COVID-19 and race-related social distancing. Next, we manipulated exposure to information about COVID-19 racial disparities (N = 1,505). Reading about the systemic causes of COVID-19 racial disparities reduced support for COVID-19 safety precautions and empathy for those vulnerable to COVID-19, reduced fear of COVID-19, and increased bias against people of color. These findings have important implications for understanding how public health information may perpetuate systemic racial inequalities.

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Effectiveness of a community-based Tai Chi program and implications for public health initiatives

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation ◽

10.1016/j.apmr.2004.10.020 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 86 (4) ◽

pp. 619-625 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Alice Y. Jones ◽

Elizabeth Dean ◽

Rhonda J. Scudds

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Tai Chi ◽

Community Based ◽

Health Initiatives ◽

Public Health Initiatives

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From Prussia to China: Japanese Colonial Medicine and Gotō Shinpei’s Combination of Medical Police and Local Self-Administration

Medical History ◽

10.1017/s0025727300005378 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 55 (3) ◽

pp. 343-347 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Christos Lynteris

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Colonial Medicine ◽

Republican China ◽

Self Administration ◽

Japanese Colonialism ◽

Health Initiatives ◽

Historical Investigation ◽

Key Issues ◽

Japanese Colonial ◽

Public Health Initiatives

Recent historical investigation into the rise of ‘biopolitical modernity’ in China has shed some surprising light. While it was long thought that British public health initiatives entered China via Hong Kong, the recent work of Ruth Rogaski, Philippe Chemouilli and others has established that it was actually early Japanese colonialism that played the crucial role. It was the Meiji Empire's hygiene reform projects in Taiwan and Manchuria that provided the model for Republican China. Curiously overlooked by medical historians has been one of the major early works of Japanese public health that directly inspired and guided this colonial medical enterprise. This was that of the Japanese health reformer and colonial officer, Gotō Shinpei (1857–1929), and it was undertaken in Munich as a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Max von Pettenkofer. In this article, I focus on the way in which Shinpei dealt in his thesis with the relations between centralisation and local self-administration as one of the key issues facing hygienic modernisation and colonial biopolitical control.

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