Cole Alistair, Dutheil Frederic, Baker Julien S
Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.
Preventive and Occupational Medicine, University Hospital of Clermont-Ferrand (CHU), Clermont-Ferrand, France.
UCL Open Environ. 2020 Aug 27;2:e010. doi: 10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000010. eCollection 2020.
This short article is centred on how trust can be a valuable resource for developing cognate responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the medical and social sciences. Politics and medicine can learn from each other. Governments need to persuade individuals to adapt their behaviours, and such persuasion will be all the more convincing in that it is nested in social networks. Trust in government requires consistent (benevolent, performative and joined-up) explanations. The distinction between hard medical and soft social science blurs when patients/citizens are required to be active participants in combatting a pandemic virus.
这篇短文聚焦于信任如何成为医学和社会科学领域针对新冠疫情制定相关应对措施的宝贵资源。政治学和医学可以相互借鉴。政府需要说服个人改变行为，而这种说服若能融入社交网络，将会更具说服力。对政府的信任需要始终如一（善意、有效且协调一致）的解释。当要求患者/公民积极参与抗击大流行病毒时，硬医学与软社会科学之间的区别就变得模糊了。
