scholarly journals Who Follows the Rules During a Crisis?—Personality Traits and Trust as Predictors of Compliance With Containment Recommendations During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne Schmeisser ◽  
Emma A. Renström ◽  
Hanna Bäck
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Health Agency ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Public Health Agency ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Public

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, many governments tried to contain the spread of the virus by legally restricting social life and imposing national lockdowns. The Swedish government did not enforce a national lockdown, but instead appealed to the individual’s self-responsibility to follow specific containment recommendations developed by the Swedish Public Health Agency. Sweden is thus an especially interesting case to study because of the potential influence of psychological and attitudinal individual-level factors that might contribute to compliance with containment recommendations. Drawing on previous literature on how individuals respond during health crises, we define and evaluate a mediation model that considers the role of personality traits and trust authorities to explain compliance. More specifically, we argue that we need to consider the role of trust in authorities to better understand the relationship between personality traits and compliance. In analyses based on a large-scale representative survey (N = 1,034), we find Conscientiousness to be directly linked to compliance, whereas Agreeableness, Neuroticism and Openness were indirectly related to compliance when trust in the Public Health Agency was taken into account.

scholarly journals Who follows the rules during a crisis? Personality traits and trust as predictors of compliance with containment recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne Schmeisser ◽  
Emma Renström ◽  
Hanna Bäck
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Health Agency ◽  
Public Health Agency ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, many governments tried to contain the spread of the virus by legally restricting social life or even by imposing national lock-downs. The Swedish government on the other hand, appealed to the individual’s self-responsibility to behave according to specific containment recommendations published by the Public Health Agency. It is thus important to understand which factors influence the extent to which individuals comply with recommended actions. While the Big Five personality traits may be of relevance for understanding compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic, previous studies provide mixed results. We argue that we need to consider the role of trust in authorities when analyzing the impact of personality traits on compliance. In analyses based on a large-scale representative survey (N=1034), we found that trust in the Public Health Agency is mediating the relationship between several Big Five traits and compliance, more specifically, Agreeableness, Neuroticism and Openness were only related to compliance when trust in the Public Health Agency was taken into account. This suggests that trust in authorities is an important factor to take into account when analyzing the relationship between personality traits and compliance.

scholarly journals Quebec's Public Health Ethics Committee: A Model for the Public Health Agency of Canada

1969 ◽  
pp. 511
Author(s):  
Mireille Lacroix
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Federal Agency ◽  
Health Agency ◽  
Public Health Agency ◽  
Public Health Ethics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Ethics ◽  
Government Of Canada ◽  
Organizational Features

The federal government of Canada has recently undertaken to modernize its public health infrastructure, including setting up the Public Health Agency of Canada (Agency). The structure and organizational features of this Agency are still being determined, however. After a brief discussion of public health ethics, this article examines Quebec's Comité d'éthique de santé publique (CESP) in detail and proposes the CESP as a model for the new federal Agency. The author explores the role of the CESP in public health activities and programs. She discusses the membership and transparency of the CESP and also critiques its circumscribed mandate, with the view of examining whether Quebec's CESP could serve as a model for the newer federal Agency.

scholarly journals A guideline on how to synthesize knowledge by reviews at the Public Health Agency of Sweden

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Månsdotter ◽  
K Godoy ◽  
K Guldbrandsson ◽  
R Henriksson ◽  
S Löfdahl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Agency ◽  
Public Health Agency ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals Large outbreak of tularaemia, central Sweden, July to September 2019

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (42) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rikard Dryselius ◽  
Marika Hjertqvist ◽  
Signar Mäkitalo ◽  
Anders Lindblom ◽  
Tobias Lilja ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Agency ◽  
Public Health Agency ◽  
The Public ◽  
Large Outbreak

On 31 of July 2019, the Public Health Agency of Sweden was alerted about an increasing number of tularaemia cases in Gävleborg, a county in central Sweden. The number of cases increased thereafter peaking at about 150 reports of illnesses every week. As at 6 October, a total of 979 cases (734 laboratory-confirmed) have been reported, mainly from counties in central Sweden. The outbreak is now considered over (as at 14 October).

Patterns of Health Services Utilization in Rural Canada

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 1-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
RW Pong ◽  
M DesMeules ◽  
D Heng ◽  
C Lagacé ◽  
JR Guernsey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Health Agency ◽  
Public Health Agency ◽  
Health Determinants ◽  
Access To Health Services ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Public

Canadians value ease of access to their health services. Although many studies have focused on accessibility to health services in Canada, few have examined rural-urban differences in this aspect, particularly from a national perspective. Yet disparities in access to health services exist between rural and urban populations, as do the challenges of delivering health care to more remote areas or to those with small populations. “Canada’s Rural Communities: Understanding Rural Health and Its Determinants” is a three-year research project co-funded by the Canadian Population Health Initiative (CPHI) of the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). It involves investigators from the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research (CRaNHR) at Laurentian University, and other researchers. The first publication of the research project was How Healthy Are Rural Canadians? An Assessment of Their Health Status and Health Determinants;Footnote 1a1a this, the second publication, is a descriptive analysis of the utilization patterns of a broad range of health services by rural residents compared to their urban counterparts.

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