The effect of negationism on public health

Valenti, Vítor Engrácia; Silva, Alan Patricio da

doi:10.36311/jhgd.v31.12299

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“…Moreover, none examined emotional reactions to non-compliance to safety precautions during the pandemic—an important issue that socio-psychological research can help to illuminate. Although most people generally support public health precautions [ 38 ], health-protective behaviors (e.g., COVID-19 regulations) pose a “social dilemma” as they limit the freedom of the individual, but they pursue the cause of collective safety [ 23 ]. This suggests to us that, for effective pandemic management in terms of individuals’ responses (preventive behaviors), communities should negotiate social norms to find a balance between freedom and constraint, or “tight–loose ambidexterity” [ 10 ], depending on the level of threat.…”

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Perceived COVID-19 Threat and Reactions to Noncompliant Health-Protective Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Desired Cultural Tightness and the Moderating Role of Age

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Santo

Viola

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The COVID-19 pandemic is a health crisis that requires individuals to comply with many health-protective behaviors. Following the previous literature, cultural tightness has been found to be a key mechanism to increase coordination in order to mitigate collective threats (e.g., COVID-19). In this study, we test a moderated mediation model to examine whether the perceived COVID-19 threat could intensify the extent of desired tightness (i.e., a personal desire for cultural tightness), moderated by age. Subsequently, we test whether this could intensify individuals’ emotional reactions to non-compliance with COVID-19 health protective behaviors. The study relies on a cross-sectional design, with a sample of 624 participants residing in central Italy (i.e., Lazio). The data were collected from February to October 2021. Questionnaires contained self-reporting measures of the perceived COVID-19 threat, desired tightness, and personal emotional reactions to non-compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures (e.g., wearing a mask). The results confirm that the perceived COVID-19 threat is associated with an increase in the desire for cultural tightness—and that this relationship was moderated by age—and, consequently, with intolerance for noncompliance with preventive behaviors. Additionally, both direct and indirect effects of the perceived COVID-19 threat on negative emotional reactions to noncompliance were significant; this indirect effect was larger at high (+1 SD) age than at low (−1 SD) age. Overall, this research provides some insight into how people can respond to the current pandemic threat, and how this may have implications for violating rules and regulations to keep contagion under control.

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Perceived COVID-19 Threat and Reactions to Noncompliant Health-Protective Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Desired Cultural Tightness and the Moderating Role of Age

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Viola

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“…The numerous crises, ranging from the COVID-19 pandemic to escalating inflation, including the instability of wars and natural disasters, have greatly affected the ability to achieve the agreed goals, reducing international financing, especially for less developed countries [15][16][17] .…”

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The 2030 agenda and brazilian internalization

Gabriel Arpini,

Silva,

Felipe Coelho

et al. 2023

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Introduction: the Sustainable Development Goals define the goals that were defined to be achieved by the signatory member countries to reach by 2030 with the purpose of reducing indicators to promote equality and equity for all. Objective: to describe the path taken towards the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, from its antecedents, main concepts and innovations, resulting in a fundamental and guiding element in the formulation of public policies. Methods: study based on secondary sources of literature relevant to the topic, considering articles from national and international journals and recent productions on the Sustainable Development Goals Results: the challenges of internalizing the Sustainable Development Goals, with the definition of national goals and indicators, addresses the challenges and setbacks in their implementation, especially with the national reorientation aimed at fulfilling the 2030 Agenda from this year onwards, especially in light of mid-cycle assessments, to take place this year. Conclusion: the demobilization in the adoption of the 2030 Agenda at the Federal level, from 2019 onwards, as the global political scenario of successive crises has severely impacted the fulfillment of the agreed objectives, an accelerated effort to resume policies is necessary, involving public agents , civil society and academia, so that the second half of the time frame for implementing the 2030 Agenda is more assertive and achieves the proposed objectives and goals, without effectively leaving anyone behind.

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“…These findings indicate the epidemiological pattern of the number of new cases and mortality in the municipality studied. However, even with the optimistic perspective of immunization efficiency, it is far from being effective for the population of the country, which once again highlights non-pharmacological measures as important for reducing the number of cases and deaths 38,39 .…”

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COVID-19 in the municipalities of Botucatu and Serrana, São Paulo, Brazil, the effects of lethality and mortality

Silva

Ribeiro

Emídio

et al. 2022

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Introduction: in 2019, the proliferation of a virus identified as SARS-CoV-2 emerged in the city of Wuhan, a district in China, quickly spread throughout the world, gaining pandemic status and less than 1 year, its repercussions and magnitude caused scientists, governments and society to adopt severe measures to combat this disease. Objective: to analyze mortality, incidence and mortality from COVID-19 in the municipalities of Botucatu and Serrana, São Paulo, Brazil. Methods: this is an ecological study with a time series design with secondary data. All registered cases and deaths registered by COVID-19 from April 2020 to August 2021 in the municipalities of Botucatu and Serrana, São Paulo, Brazil were considered. The incidence, mortality and lethality rate were used. The monthly and/or weekly percentage variation and their respective 95% confidence intervals were estimated. Results: it identified that 12.88% of the residents of the city of Botucatu were infected with COVID-19 and 8.61% of the population of the municipality of Serrana was infected. There was a stationary trend of mortality and incidence in the period between April 2020 and May 2021 and decreasing in both sexes in the mortality rate in the municipality of Serrana, in the city of Botucatu there was a trend of increasing mortality and incidence in the same period observed. Conclusion: The mass vaccination strategy of citizens in the cities of Botucatu and Serrana present robust data to consider that immunization has a decreasing effect on the number of cases and deaths from COVID-19, which effectively contributes to fighting the pandemic and reduces the contamination and progression of the disease to more severe cases.

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The effect of negationism on public health

Cited by 5 publications

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Perceived COVID-19 Threat and Reactions to Noncompliant Health-Protective Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Desired Cultural Tightness and the Moderating Role of Age

Perceived COVID-19 Threat and Reactions to Noncompliant Health-Protective Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Desired Cultural Tightness and the Moderating Role of Age

The 2030 agenda and brazilian internalization

COVID-19 in the municipalities of Botucatu and Serrana, São Paulo, Brazil, the effects of lethality and mortality

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