The UK COVID-19 contact tracing app as both an emerging technology and public health intervention: The need to consider promissory discourses.

IF 1.9 4区 医学 Q3 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Health Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Epub Date: 2021-11-23 DOI:10.1177/13634593211060768
Gabrielle Samuel, Rosie Sims
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The UK's National Health Service (NHS) COVID-19 contact tracing app was announced to the British public on 12th April 2020. The UK government endorsed the app as a public health intervention that would improve public health, protect the NHS and 'save lives'. On 5th May 2020 the technology was released for trial on the Isle of Wight. However, the trial was halted in June 2020, reportedly due to technological issues. The app was later remodelled and launched to the public in September 2020. The rapid development, trial and discontinuation of the app over a short period of a few months meant that the mobilisation and effect of the discourses associated with the app could be traced relatively easily. In this paper we aimed to explore how these discourses were constructed in the media, and their effect on actors - in particular, those who developed and those who trialled the app. Promissory discourses were prevalent, the trajectory of which aligned with theories developed in the sociology of expectations. We describe this trajectory, and then interpret its implications in terms of infectious disease public health practices and responsibilities.

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英国新冠肺炎接触者追踪应用既是一种新兴技术,也是一种公共卫生干预:需要考虑承诺话语。
英国国家医疗服务体系(NHS)新冠肺炎接触者追踪应用程序于2020年4月12日向英国公众宣布。英国政府认可该应用程序是一种公共卫生干预措施,将改善公众健康,保护NHS并“拯救生命”。2020年5月5日,该技术在怀特岛进行了试验。然而,据报道,由于技术问题,审判于2020年6月暂停。该应用程序后来进行了改造,并于2020年9月向公众推出。该应用程序在短短几个月内的快速开发、试用和停用意味着可以相对容易地追踪与该应用程序相关的话语的动员和效果。在这篇论文中,我们旨在探索这些话语是如何在媒体中构建的,以及它们对参与者的影响,特别是那些开发和试用该应用程序的人。许诺话语盛行,其轨迹与期望社会学中发展起来的理论一致。我们描述了这一轨迹,然后从传染病公共卫生实践和责任的角度解释了其含义。
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期刊介绍: Health: is published four times per year and attempts in each number to offer a mix of articles that inform or that provoke debate. The readership of the journal is wide and drawn from different disciplines and from workers both inside and outside the health care professions. Widely abstracted, Health: ensures authors an extensive and informed readership for their work. It also seeks to offer authors as short a delay as possible between submission and publication. Most articles are reviewed within 4-6 weeks of submission and those accepted are published within a year of that decision.
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