Healthcare chauvinism during the COVID-19 pandemic

Larsen, Mikkel Haderup; Schaeffer, Merlin

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2020.1860742

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“…These findings are consistent with a growing number of studies that find respondents willing to discriminate against immigrants for access to COVID-19 treatment in Denmark (Larsen and Schaeffer, 2021) and Switzerland (Knotz et al, 2021). Our paper goes beyond those studies by implementing a research design that compares the citizenship divide to a broader range of additional patient characteristics.…”

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The importance of citizenship for deserving COVID-19 treatment

Helbling

Maxwell

Munzert

et al. 2022

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Immigrant non-citizens are often considered less deserving than citizens of welfare and other public services. The logic is that valuable and scarce public resources must be limited somehow, and the club of citizens is one way of drawing a boundary. In this paper, we examine how far that boundary extends, by analyzing the extent to which Germans prioritize citizens over non-citizens for access to life-saving healthcare. We implement a conjoint experiment to elicit preferences in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The data were collected between April 2020 and March 2021, in 23 waves of an online rolling cross-sectional survey with roughly 17,000 respondents. Our main finding is that citizens are viewed as more deserving of healthcare than non-citizen immigrants, a relationship that is sizeable and robust. Our findings have implications for debates about social boundaries and how to allocate resources in Western Europe.

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The importance of citizenship for deserving COVID-19 treatment

Helbling

Maxwell

Munzert

et al. 2022

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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“…Additionally, we innovate by demonstrating that beyond traditional applications of deservingness theory, the criteria of conditional solidarity apply to other policy areas, including economic support for the self-employed and cross-border mobility. Third, our study shows that identity also matters in relation to deservingness to health care, confirming recent findings within the literature on deservingness perceptions (Larsen and Schaeffer, 2021).…”

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“…We also contribute to a growing literature on deservingness in times of crisis (Larsen and Schaeffer, 2021; Reeskens et al ., 2021). True, ideally, in order to assess the impact of the pandemic on deservingness perceptions, we would have fielded a first wave of the experiment prior to the pandemic.…”

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Conditional Solidarity - Attitudes Towards Support for Others During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic

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The COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique opportunity to study how humans allocate scarce resources in times of hardship. We study public preferences regarding who should get access to government aid for the self-employed, a bed in the intensive care unit, and permission to cross the border using original conjoint survey experiments administered to an incentivised online panel in Switzerland during the first and second waves of the pandemic in 2020. We find that across the three areas, even in extraordinary circumstances such as the COVID-19 pandemic, evaluations of deservingness to aid and support are still based on an underlying logic of conditional solidarity and identity: in all experiments, contributing to the community, be it through past actions and contributions or through current efforts, plays a crucial role in determining an individual’s deservingness, as does their nationality (and legal status) with nationals being perceived as more deserving than non-nationals.

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“…Recent research has revealed healthcare chauvinism during the pandemic with foreign citizens in Germany being seen as less deserving of intensive care (Gandenberger et al, 2023; Helbling et al, 2022) and individuals having resided in Denmark only shortly being seen as less eligible for hospitalization (Haderup Larsen and Schaeffer, 2021) and vaccination (Schaeffer and Haderup Larsen, 2023).…”

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Pro-social attitudes towards ethno-religious out-groups during the COVID-19 pandemic: A survey experiment in five countries

Carol,

David,

Malešević

et al. 2023

International Sociology

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To what extent were individuals willing to help others during the pandemic? This article examines pro-social attitudes among 7000 residents in England, Ireland, Germany, Serbia, and Sweden by showing a fictitious scenario of an older neighbour who needs his groceries to be picked up from a nearby supermarket. The online survey experiment follows a 3 × 2 × 2 factorial design varying the ethno-religious origin of neighbours signalled by the name (Alexander vs Mohammed), the length of their residence (<1 year, 10 years, entire life), and if groceries, or groceries and beer need to be collected. We find that those of minority origin and those who have spent less than a year in a country are disadvantaged. Overall, religiosity is associated with a lower willingness to help a neighbour.

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Healthcare chauvinism during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 23 publications

References 44 publications

The importance of citizenship for deserving COVID-19 treatment

The importance of citizenship for deserving COVID-19 treatment

Conditional Solidarity - Attitudes Towards Support for Others During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic

Pro-social attitudes towards ethno-religious out-groups during the COVID-19 pandemic: A survey experiment in five countries

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