Socio-demographic factors associated with self-protecting behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Socio-demographic factors associated with self-protecting behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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DOI：
10.1007/s00148-020-00818-x
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
Tripodi E
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作者：
Papageorge NW;Zahn MV;Belot M;van den Broek-Altenburg E;Choi S;Jamison JC;Tripodi E
鉴于人类行为在疾病传播中的作用，了解是什么驱使人们在大流行期间从事或避免与健康有关的行为至关重要。本文探讨了在美国新冠肺炎大流行开始时，与采取自我保护健康行为（如社交距离和戴口罩）相关的因素。这些行为不仅降低了个人自身感染的风险，而且还限制了疾病向他人的传播。尽管有这些双重好处，但这些行为的普遍采用并不能保证。我们专注于社会经济差异在解释行为方面的作用，并依赖于2020年4月在新冠肺炎大流行早期阶段收集的数据。这些数据包括关于收入、性别和种族的信息，沿着与当前流行病有关的独特变量，如工作安排和住房质量。我们发现，较高的收入与自我保护行为的较大变化有关。这些梯度的部分原因是，收入较低的人更有可能报告使采取自我保护行为更加困难的情况，例如无法远程工作。在美国和其他地方，假设普遍遵守自我保护措施的政策-或者不考虑这样做的成本的社会经济差异-不太可能有效或可持续。
Given the role of human behavior in the spread of disease, it is vital to understand what drives people to engage in or refrain from health-related behaviors during a pandemic. This paper examines factors associated with the adoption of self-protective health behaviors, such as social distancing and mask wearing, at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in the USA. These behaviors not only reduce an individual’s own risk of infection but also limit the spread of disease to others. Despite these dual benefits, universal adoption of these behaviors is not assured. We focus on the role of socioeconomic differences in explaining behavior, relying on data collected in April 2020 during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. The data include information on income, gender and race along with unique variables relevant to the current pandemic, such as work arrangements and housing quality. We find that higher income is associated with larger changes in self-protective behaviors. These gradients are partially explained by the fact that people with less income are more likely to report circumstances that make adopting self-protective behaviors more difficult, such as an inability to tele-work. Both in the USA and elsewhere, policies that assume universal compliance with self-protective measures—or that otherwise do not account for socioeconomic differences in the costs of doing so—are unlikely to be effective or sustainable.
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DOI：
10.1016/b978-0-444-53592-4.00003-7
发表时间：
2012-01-01
期刊：
HANDBOOK OF HEALTH ECONOMICS, VOL 2
影响因子：
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作者：
Cawley, John;Ruhm, Christopher J.
通讯作者：
Ruhm, Christopher J.
影响因子：
6.1
作者：
Bonacini, Luca;Gallo, Giovanni;Patriarca, Fabrizio
通讯作者：
Patriarca, Fabrizio
影响因子：
5.8
作者：
Chan, Tat Y.;Hamilton, Barton H.;Papageorge, Nicholas W.
通讯作者：
Papageorge, Nicholas W.
影响因子：
13.7
作者：
Adda, Jerome
通讯作者：
Adda, Jerome
影响因子：
4.2
作者：
Adolph, Christopher;Amano, Kenya;Wilkerson, John
通讯作者：
Wilkerson, John