COVID-19 Postage Stamps—Messages in a Message

Lefrère, Bertrand; Recoing, Amélie; Delacour, Hervé

doi:10.1001/jama.2021.2139

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“…As postage stamps index World Health Days, they can reference a variety of interventions and newly emerging public health problems [ 99 ]. An example of this was the recent issue by the UN and 21 countries to honour healthcare workers and patients during the COVID-19 pandemic [ 10 ].…”

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“…They may promote new public initiatives and even political agendas [ 1 , 2 ]. Stamps have played a role in health-related government campaigns, such as anti-smoking, disability support, blood donation, cancer awareness, surgery interventions, commemoration of World Health Days, HIV awareness, and currently COVID control [ 3 – 10 ]. Stamps celebrate World Health Organization (WHO) anniversaries and pay tribute to medical, individual, or scientific discoveries.…”

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Analysing malaria events from 1840 to 2020: the narrative told through postage stamps

Brabin

2021

Malar J

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The role played by postage stamps in the history of malaria control and eradication has largely gone unrecognized. Scientific investigators of malaria, especially Nobel laureates, were commemorated with special issues, but the work of the World Health Organization (WHO), which promoted an ambitious and global philatelic initiative in 1962 to support global eradication, is generally overlooked. This review examines the philatelic programme that helped to generate international commitment to the goal of malaria eradication in 1962 and established philatelic malaria icons that had worldwide recognition. Malaria-related postage stamps have continued to be issued since then, but the initial failure of malaria eradication and the changing goals of each new malaria programme, inevitably diluted their role. After the first Global Malaria Eradication Campaign was discontinued in 1969, few Nations released philatelic issues. Since the Spirit of Dakar Call for Action in 1996 a resurgence of postage stamp releases has occurred, largely tracking global malaria control initiatives introduced between 1996 and 2020. These releases were not co-ordinated by the WHO as before, were more commercialized and targeted stamp collectors, especially with attractive miniature sheets, often produced by photomontage. Having a different purpose, they demonstrated a much wider diversity in symbolism than the earlier stylized issues and at times, have been scientifically inaccurate. Nonetheless postage stamps greatly helped to communicate the importance of malaria control programmes to a wide audience and to some extent, have supported preventive health messages.

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Analysing malaria events from 1840 to 2020: the narrative told through postage stamps

Brabin

2021

Malar J

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“…They are useful ideological and cultural artefacts, and a means for government to promote certain images at home and abroad (Jones, 2001). Stamps are a mass medium, used to commemorate events or raise public awareness about topics of wide social interest or in uence; they remain a way for governments to communicate on a broad scale regarding important topics of value to their nation, or to raise funds for regime implementation or state sovereignty commercialization (Lefrère, 2021;Slemrod, 2008;Brunn, 2001). Ultimately, stamps provide a platform for a country to communicate to the world what is important, developing and preserving national values, traditions, themes, and individuals (Limor & Tamir, 2021, p. 496).…”

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Commemorative stamps as a recognition tool: a cross-sectional analysis

Galliford,

Chan,

Torgler

2024

Int Rev Econ

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Commemorative stamps have a place in the cultural, economic, and geopolitical status of a nation; and the nature of what is printed on stamps is very much a re ection of the culture, regime, and values of a country. Whilst commemorative stamps can be a source of celebration for monuments, ora and fauna, and key points in a nation's history; they are also a source of recognition, designed to publicly celebrate and showcase the contribution of key gures based on their performance in areas deemed signi cant to the nation's culture and evolution. In this empirical study, we analyse commemorative stamp data in a cross-sectional setting to understand key determinants that shape their provision. The award literature has developed some propositions that so far have not been tested empirically.We nd strong evidence that the political process strongly in uences the use of postage stamps as a recognition tool.The political regime as well as governance matter. For example, controlling for regime, more corrupt countries are more likely to use stamps to recognize personalities. On the other hand, more democratic regimes are more frequently using stamps as a recognition tool. We also nd that cultural factors and ideologies show substantial heterogeneity in their in uence while factors such as fractionalization or income inequality do not seem to matter. Factors such as personal and impersonal pro-sociality or creativity seemed to reduce the need for stamps as a recognition tool, while other factors such as market orientation, individualism, or traditionalism encourage the use of stamps to recognize individuals. Overall, we nd that some results are consistent with the theoretical propositions while others are not, requiring more empirical evidence around awards and a better understanding of how stamps differ from other recognitions.

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“…Twenty one countries and the UN have between them released 68 postage stamps to mark the sacrifice of healthcare workers and patients during the covid-19 pandemic, a French study has discovered 1…”

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Stamps deliver covid tributes

Shepherd¹

2021

BMJ

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COVID-19 Postage Stamps—Messages in a Message

Cited by 7 publications

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Analysing malaria events from 1840 to 2020: the narrative told through postage stamps

Analysing malaria events from 1840 to 2020: the narrative told through postage stamps

Commemorative stamps as a recognition tool: a cross-sectional analysis

Stamps deliver covid tributes

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