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Public health and public trust: Survey evidence from the Ebola Virus Disease epidemic in Liberia.

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Results suggest that respondents who refused to comply with EVD control interventions may have done so not because they failed to understand how EVD is transmitted, but rather because they did not trust the capacity or integrity of government institutions to recommend precautions and implement policies to slow EVD's spread.
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This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2017-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 346 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Public trust & Distrust.

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Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.

Jay J. Van Bavel, +42 more
TL;DR: Evidence from a selection of research topics relevant to pandemics is discussed, including work on navigating threats, social and cultural influences on behaviour, science communication, moral decision-making, leadership, and stress and coping.
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The New York Review of Books

TL;DR: The New York Review ofBooks as mentioned in this paper is now over twenty years old and it has attracted controversy since its inception, but it is the controversies that attract the interest of the reader and to which the history, especially an admittedly impressionistic survey, must give some attention.
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COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries.

Julio S. Solís Arce, +80 more
- 16 Jul 2021 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed COVID-19 vaccine acceptance across 15 survey samples covering 10 low and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Asia, Africa and South America, Russia (an upper-middle-income country) and the United States, including a total of 44,260 individuals.
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Trust and Compliance to Public Health Policies in Times of COVID-19

TL;DR: It is found that high-trust regions decrease their mobility related to non-necessary activities significantly more than low- Trust regions, and the efficiency of policy stringency in terms of mobility reduction significantly increases with trust.
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Public Health and Online Misinformation: Challenges and Recommendations

TL;DR: This review explores how individuals interact with health misinformation online, whether it be through search, user-generated content, or mobile apps and proposes several constructive strategies for improving the online information ecosystem.
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Why people obey the law

TL;DR: This paper found that people obey the law if they believe it's legitimate, not because they fear punishment, which is the conclusion of Tom Tyler's classic study, "People obey law primarily because they believe in respecting legitimate authority".
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The New York Review of Books

TL;DR: The New York Review ofBooks as mentioned in this paper is now over twenty years old and it has attracted controversy since its inception, but it is the controversies that attract the interest of the reader and to which the history, especially an admittedly impressionistic survey, must give some attention.
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Trust and Taxpaying: Testing the Heuristic Approach to Collective Action

TL;DR: In this paper, trust in government and in other citizens increase compliance over and above the levels expected from an internalized sense of duty to obey laws and the fear of getting caught by enforcement agencies like the IRS.
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A state of trust

Margaret Levi
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The basic reproductive number of Ebola and the effects of public health measures: the cases of Congo and Uganda.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate the number of secondary cases generated by an index case in the absence of control interventions R0, using epidemic modeling and data from two well-documented Ebola outbreaks (Congo 1995 and Uganda 2000), and also perform an uncertainty analysis of the basic reproductive number R0 to quantify its sensitivity to other disease-related parameters.
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