Trust and cooperation: the democratic public sphere

Misztal, Barbara A.

doi:10.1177/144078301128756409

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“…Social inclusion focuses on whether people “feel part of” or “included in” society, which is inextricably linked to both interpersonal and institutional trust (or distrust) (2, 22, 53–55). …”

Section: The Interplay Between Trust and Public Healthmentioning

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Improving Access to, Use of, and Outcomes from Public Health Programs: The Importance of Building and Maintaining Trust with Patients/Clients

Ward

2017

Front. Public Health

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The central argument in this paper is that “public trust” is critical for developing and maintaining the health and wellbeing of individuals, communities, and societies. I argue that public health practitioners and policy makers need to take “public trust” seriously if they intend to improve both the public’s health and the engagement between members of the public and public health systems. Public health practitioners implement a range of services and interventions aimed at improving health but implicit a requirement for individuals to trust the practitioners and the services/interventions, before they engage with them. I then go on to provide an overview of the theory of trust within sociology and show why it is important to understand this theory in order to promote trust in public health services. I then draw on literature in three classic areas of public health—hospitals, cancer screening, and childhood immunization—to show why trust is vital in terms of understanding and potentially improving uptake of services. The case studies in this paper reveal that public health practitioners need to understand the centrality of building and maintaining trusting relationships with patients/clients because people who distrust public health services are less likely to use them, less likely to follow advice or recommendations, and more likely to have poorer health outcomes.

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Section: The Interplay Between Trust and Public Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving Access to, Use of, and Outcomes from Public Health Programs: The Importance of Building and Maintaining Trust with Patients/Clients

Ward

2017

Front. Public Health

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“…Informality permeates all aspects of the urban system, including housing and land occupation (Roy 2003), commerce, production and work (Maloney 2004), and even the public sphere and political processes (Misztal 2001 2005). By far the majority of townspeople in SSA generate livelihoods from the ‘informal sector’.…”

Section: Conceptualising and Handling Informalitymentioning

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Missing the point? Urban planning and the normalisation of ‘pathological’ spaces in southern Africa

Kamete¹

2012

Trans Inst British Geog

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In this paper I consider ‘normalisation’ as a response to urban informal livelihoods in urban southern Africa. I demonstrate that urban planning systems have been mobilised to correct or eliminate ‘spatial pathologies’. Using illustrative cases from southern Africa, I argue that the authorities’ obsession with ‘normalising’ urban spaces they have designated as ‘pathologies’ is misplaced because it glaringly defies the reality on the ground. Interrogated in the paper is the reasoning behind, and effectiveness of, ‘corrective’ measures that exclude and marginalise informality through technicalisation, ‘expertisation’ and depoliticisation. I evaluate the basis, workings and deleterious outcomes of normalising technologies and question the relevance and efficacy of normalisation at a time when it is increasingly becoming clear that African urbanisation is – and will possibly continue to be – simultaneously driven and cushioned by informalisation.

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“…Trust is not an easy concept to defi ne, and this diffi culty has increased more recently with growing specialisation in the range of conceptualisations of trust (Misztal 2001;Seligman 1997). We make no attempt here to explore all the meanings of trust -our emphasis is on the relational aspect of trust.…”

Section: A Brief Review Of Trust and Social Capitalmentioning

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Trusting the Tax Office: Does Putnam's Thesis Relate to Tax?

Job¹,

Reinhart²

2003

Aust J Social Issues

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Data from the Community Participation and Citizenship Survey are used to explore the factors that infl uence people to place trust in strangers and impersonal others. We use Putnam's social capital thesis to explore whether civic engagement and associational membership are major factors in the development of generalised or social trust, and whether this kind of trust is generalisable to trust in government institutions, specifi cally the Tax Offi ce. There is partial support for Putnam's thesis that civic engagement develops social trust. More important is affective trust developed in the family and through familiar others. We fi nd that trust is generalisable, being extended to strangers and to the impersonal others in government institutions. It is trust that builds trust -and government institutions like the Tax Offi ce begin their task with benefi ts accrued through generalised trust.

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Trust and cooperation: the democratic public sphere

Cited by 40 publications

References 29 publications

Improving Access to, Use of, and Outcomes from Public Health Programs: The Importance of Building and Maintaining Trust with Patients/Clients

Improving Access to, Use of, and Outcomes from Public Health Programs: The Importance of Building and Maintaining Trust with Patients/Clients

Missing the point? Urban planning and the normalisation of ‘pathological’ spaces in southern Africa

Trusting the Tax Office: Does Putnam's Thesis Relate to Tax?

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