Social capital, political trust, and health locus of control: A population-based study

Lindström, Martin

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“…While the field of trust studies in political science has flourished during the past few decades, only a small number of studies exists, which concentrate on the rela tionship between political trust and health. Two studies have looked at personal health in conjunction with political trust in Sweden, finding that there is a positive association between trust and health (Lindström, 2011;Lindström and Mohseni, 2009). However, summarizing the literature on health and political trust is a risky venture because the number of empirical studies is so low.…”

Section: Political Trust and Knowledgementioning

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Health and Political Engagement

Mattila¹,

Rapeli²,

Wass³

et al. 2017

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Health and Political Engagement Social scientists have only recently begun to explore the link between health and political engagement. Understanding this relationship is vitally important from both a scholarly and a policy-making perspective. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive account of health and political engagement. Using both individual-level and country-level data drawn from the European Social Survey, World Values Survey and new Finnish survey data, it provides an extensive analysis of how health and political engagement are con nected. It measures the impact of various health factors on a wide range of forms of political engagement and attitudes and helps shed light on the mechanisms behind the interaction between health and political engagement. This text is of key interest scholars, students and policy-makers in health, politics, and democracy, and more broadly in the social and health and medical sciences.

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Section: Political Trust and Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Health and Political Engagement

Mattila¹,

Rapeli²,

Wass³

et al. 2017

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“…Using Swedish survey data, two studies have looked at personal health in conjunction with political trust. Lindström () argues that health is affected by personal political attitudes, such as political trust, because they relate to the extent to which ‘a person believes that there is a possibility to influence one's health by modifying behavior’ (Lindström : 3). As Lindström demonstrates, the sense that one's influence over personal health is weak can be related to low levels of trust in the (Swedish) parliament.…”

Section: Previous Studies On Trust and Healthmentioning

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Just sick of it? Health and political trust in Western Europe

Mattila

Rapeli

2017

European J Political Res

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This article explores two theoretical possibilities for why personal health may affect political trust: the psychological‐democratic contract theory, and the role of personal experience in opinion formation. It argues that citizens with health impairments are more likely to experience the direct effects of political decisions as they are more dependent on public health services. Negative subjective evaluations of public services can lower trust levels, especially if people's expectations are high. Using European Social Survey data, the association between health and trust in 19 Western European states is analysed. The results indicate that people in poor health exhibit lower levels of trust towards the political system than people in good health. The differences in trust between those in good and poor health are accentuated among citizens with left‐leaning ideological values. The results suggest that welfare issues may constitute a rare context in which personal, rather than collective, experiences affect opinion formation.

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“…They have also distinguished between cognitive trust , knowledge-based trust and affective/altruistic trust. 2,6,12–14 Often these terms are used interchangeably between studies with a similar focus, and are not clearly defined and distinguished. Rolfe et al., 15 after reviewing 10 intervention studies to increase trust between doctors and patients, found a similar lack of consistent definitions of trust.…”

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Why public trust in health care systems matters and deserves greater research attention

Gille

Smith

Mays

2014

J Health Serv Res Policy

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Considering the underlying importance of trust, there is too little research into the understanding, protection and recovery of trust in health care systems, not only for the effective functioning of health care systems but also for society in general. Several researchers have pointed towards a contemporary crisis of trust in health care systems and there have been many examples that show the severe effects of mistrust. More research into public trust in health care systems could contribute to improving efficiency while protecting the health of the public.

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Social capital, political trust, and health locus of control: A population-based study

Abstract: Low political trust in the Riksdag seems to be independently associated with external health locus of control.

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Health and Political Engagement

Just sick of it? Health and political trust in Western Europe

Why public trust in health care systems matters and deserves greater research attention

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