Resources or trust: What matters more in the vaccination strategies of high-income liberal democracies?

Falkenbach, Michelle; Willison, Charley E.

doi:10.1016/j.hlpt.2022.100618

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“…Aside from these aspects, one of the key but often overlooked areas, for strengthening effective governance during the pandemic has been to solidify public trust in decision-making authorities (26), requiring close scrutiny. For COVID-19, the HSRM analysis found that an increase in trust in government and health officials, in countries like Denmark, Switzerland or Italy, led to a greater acceptance of government-mandated measures (e.g., regulations on testing, lockdowns, and vaccination) and less politization of the pandemic and its societal impacts (27,28). In turn, these countries generally experienced better outcomes, including higher vaccination rates, and as a result, lower hospitalisation, and mortality rates (28).…”

Section: Strengthening Governance With a Focus On Trustmentioning

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Perspective: Lessons from COVID-19 of countries in the European region in light of findings from the health system response monitor

Tille

Ginneken

Winkelmann

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionDecision-makers initially had limited data to inform their policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The research community developed several online databases to track cases, deaths, and hospitalizations; however, a major deficiency was the lack of detailed information on how health systems were responding to the pandemic and how they would need to be transformed going forward.ApproachIn an effort to fill this information gap, in March 2020, the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, the WHO European Regional Office and the European Commission created the COVID-19 Health System Response Monitor (HSRM) to collect and organise up-to-date information on how health systems, mainly in the WHO European Region, were responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.FindingsThe HSRM analysis and broader Observatory work on COVID-19 shone light on a range of health system challenges and weaknesses and catalogued policy options countries put in place during the pandemic to address these. Countries prioritised policies on investing in public health, supporting the workforce, maintaining financial stability, and strengthening governance in their response to COVID-19.OutlookCOVID-19 is likely to continue to impact health systems for the foreseeable future; the ability to cope with this pressure, and other shocks, depends on having good information on what other countries have done so that health systems develop adequate policy options. In support of this, the country information on the COVID-19 HSRM will remain available as a repository to inform decision makers on options for actions and possible measures against COVID-19 and other public health emergencies. Building on its previous work on health systems resilience, the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies will sustain its focus on analysing key issues related to the recovery from the pandemic and making health systems more resilient. This includes policy knowledge transfer between countries and systematic resilience testing, aiming at contributing to an improved understanding of health system response, recovery, and preparedness.Contribution to the literature in non-technical languageThe COVID-19 Health System Response Monitor (HSRM) was the first database in the WHO European Region to collect and organise up-to-date information on how health systems were responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The HSRM provides a repository of policies which can be used to inform decision makers in health and other policy domains on options for action and possible measures against COVID-19 and other public health emergencies. This initiative proved particularly valuable, especially during the early phases of the pandemic, when there was limited information for countries to draw on as they formulated their own policy response to the pandemic. Our perspectives paper highlights some key challenges within health systems that the HSRM was able to identify during the pandemic and considers policy options countries put in place in response. Our research contributes to literature on emergency responses and recovery, health systems performance assessment, particularly health system resilience, and showcases the Observatory experience on how to design such a data collection tool, as well as how to leverage its findings to support cross-country learning.

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Section: Strengthening Governance With a Focus On Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perspective: Lessons from COVID-19 of countries in the European region in light of findings from the health system response monitor

Tille

Ginneken

Winkelmann

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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“…Just like everyone else in the EU, the Portuguese had access to social media platforms, yet the vaccination rate in Portugal reached a record high in Europe and worldwide (Mathieu et al, 2021). To explain the difference in vaccine hesitancy, Portugal led the vaccination campaign with a coherent public discourse, entirely depoliticized and it has been shown that by depoliticizing the COVID-19 discourse, citizens were more likely to trust their government's recommendations (Falkenbach & Willison, 2022). By contrast, in the case of Romania, in the absence of a coherent public discourse around the vaccine in the main-stream news, social media debates were the ones that steered the discussions and ultimately determined many Romanians' decision to (not) take the vaccine (Stoica & Umbreș, 2021).…”

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The moral source of collective irrationality during COVID-19 vaccination campaigns

Voinea

Marin

Vică

2023

Philosophical Psychology

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We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the reviewers for their valuable feedback and insights on our manuscript. Their comments and suggestions have greatly improved the quality and clarity of our work. We appreciate their time and effort in carefully reviewing our paper and providing constructive criticism that has helped to strengthen it. We are grateful for the opportunity to learn from their expertise and experience. Thank you again for your invaluable contribution to our research.

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“…Second, trust in government and health authorities has been shown to correlate with vaccine confidence [6] , [11] , [22] , [23] , [26] , Rhuginis et al 2022). Moreover, a lack of trust in the scientific community appears to be a strong predictor of vaccine hesitancy at the level of individuals [23] , [19] .…”

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The social and socio-political embeddedness of COVID-19 vaccination decision-making: A five-country qualitative interview study from Europe

Zimmermann

Araújo

Buyx

et al. 2023

Vaccine

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Resources or trust: What matters more in the vaccination strategies of high-income liberal democracies?

Cited by 13 publications

References 29 publications

Perspective: Lessons from COVID-19 of countries in the European region in light of findings from the health system response monitor

Perspective: Lessons from COVID-19 of countries in the European region in light of findings from the health system response monitor

The moral source of collective irrationality during COVID-19 vaccination campaigns

The social and socio-political embeddedness of COVID-19 vaccination decision-making: A five-country qualitative interview study from Europe

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