Trust Building in Public Health Approaches: The Importance of a “People-Centered” Concept in Crisis Response

IF 2.7 4区医学 Q2 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

Risk Management and Healthcare Policy Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI:10.2147/rmhp.s471250

Tiago Correia

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Abstract

Purpose: To argue for trust-building as a key solution for responding to public health crises in the face of political ambiguity in international health governance.
Patients and Methods: This perspective piece reviews fundamental concepts and discusses future directions using secondary data from open-access sources.
Results: The promise of learning from Covid-19 and previous public health crises, along with the growing recognition of a ‘Health For All Policies’ approach, clash with siloed preparations, management, and recovery plans for future emergency crises. Trust is proposed as a possible solution to overcome these limitations. It acts as a binding force that unites individuals within the community, fostering a sense of belonging and participation. Trust-building is viewed as a “People-Centered” approach in Crisis Response, aimed at creating active and resilient communities to foster preparation and readiness, respond to emergent risks, facilitate recovery, and mitigate risks. A remaining question is how to measure and identify the dimensions and determinants of trust in specific circumstances. Some ideas are systematized to highlight the pathway to build trust in public health approaches, including transparency, education, robust and equitable health systems, strengthened social capital, stakeholders’ engagement, and health workforce training.
Conclusion: Trust in public health approaches can be fostered through consistent delivery of quality care, a clear, shared vision, and values underpinned by ethical standards. It requires a commitment to stakeholder well-being, including staff, and the integration of reliability, integrity, and transparency into policies, strategies, and practices. Exemplary leadership, openness in resource utilization, addressing waste or corruption, and effective communication of these principles are essential.

Keywords: syndemics, community-led actions, trust building, public health emergencies

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Risk Management and Healthcare Policy Medicine-Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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6.20

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2.90%

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242

审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Risk Management and Healthcare Policy is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal focusing on all aspects of public health, policy and preventative measures to promote good health and improve morbidity and mortality in the population. Specific topics covered in the journal include: Public and community health Policy and law Preventative and predictive healthcare Risk and hazard management Epidemiology, detection and screening Lifestyle and diet modification Vaccination and disease transmission/modification programs Health and safety and occupational health Healthcare services provision Health literacy and education Advertising and promotion of health issues Health economic evaluations and resource management Risk Management and Healthcare Policy focuses on human interventional and observational research. The journal welcomes submitted papers covering original research, clinical and epidemiological studies, reviews and evaluations, guidelines, expert opinion and commentary, and extended reports. Case reports will only be considered if they make a valuable and original contribution to the literature. The journal does not accept study protocols, animal-based or cell line-based studies.