Australian understandings of infectious disease symptoms in the COVID era

该项目旨在研究澳大利亚人如何解释急性传染病的症状，以及这些信念如何影响他们的就医行为。该项目将使用混合社会科学方法，记录澳大利亚人如何决定何时在诊所或医院寻求医疗，何时留在家中，他们如何认为疾病传播，以及他们如何决定是否去工作，学校，社会承诺，商店或在不舒服时呆在家里，以及他们对COVID-19之后政府关于传染病的卫生政策的看法。人类通过文化编码的行为模式传播疾病，该项目将在传染病流行和大流行的时代提供重要的公共卫生见解。

This project aims to study how Australians interpret symptoms of acute infectious diseases and how those beliefs shape their health-seeking behaviour. Using mixed social science methods, the project will document how Australians decide when to seek medical treatment at clinics or hospitals and when to stay at home, how they believe disease spreads and how they decide whether to go to work, school, social commitments, shops, or stay home when unwell, and what they think about government health policy regarding infectious disease in the wake of COVID-19. Humans spread diseases through culturally coded patterns of behaviour, and this project will offer critical public health insights in an era of infectious disease epidemics and pandemics.