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Wednesday September 6 2023 Bay Harbour News Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz NEWS 11 Who do we trust in a pandemic? A FATHER-DAUGHTER team from Canterbury University studied data from eight countries to rank trust in health authorities, media, experts, and politicians. Political science honours student Alexa Schluter is the lead author of the paper, ‘In the Covid-19 pandemic, who did we trust? An eight-country crosssectional study’. Her father, Professor Philip Schluter, head of UC’s school of health sciences, supervised her research. The pair worked with clinicians and public health researchers in Canada to study data from 9000 survey participants from Canada, USA, England, Switzerland, Belgium, Philippines, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. The surveys were carried out in late 2020. In all countries surveyed, public trust in health authorities was highest. Conversely, public trust in politicians ranked lowest across the board. However, in New Zealand, trust in politicians was significantly higher than in the other countries studied. The researchers linked this to data from the Global Corruption Perception Index that records how transparent populations believe their governments to be. TRUST: Ashley Bloomfield and Jacinda Ardern had a high level of trust during the Covid-19 pandemic. PHOTO: GETTY New Zealand’s high ranking on this index may explain our greater levels of trust in information provided by politicians. Professor Philip Schluter Schluter also points to the consistent messaging delivered by government and public health officials in New Zealand. “Here we saw the daily briefing with the Prime Minister and the Director General of Health promoting the same stance. By comparison, information coming from US political leadership sometimes contradicted advice of health authorities,” he said. Alexa Schluter was also interested to see if political orientation affected participants’ trust Alexa in government Schluter information. “We found higher levels of trust in government policy expressed by those who identified as right leaning or conservative voters. “That may reflect the fact that, at the time of the pandemic, the majority of countries surveyed had conservative governments in power,” she said. The researchers believe their paper has added relevance within the context of the ‘infodemic’ identified by the World Health Organisation as a central challenge during the Covid-19 pandemic. A combination of ‘information’ and ‘epidemic’, the term describes the rapid spread of information, both accurate and inaccurate, enabled by the internet and social media. “In this environment, public trust becomes an important determinant in population health outcomes, and that’s quite a new idea,” said Professor Schluter. “These large-scale health challenges will continue to happen in future, so we really need to understand what works to foster public trust in health interventions.” The paper will be published in the prestigious international Journal of Global Health. Find Your Dream Scooter Unmissable Second-hand Sale Happening Now CHOOSE FROM OVER 50 EXCLUSIVE SCOOTERS AT MORE MOBILITY Prices starting from $1800 All scooters have new batteries installed are fully serviced and come with a 12 month warranty. 113 Blenheim Rd, Christchurch | 0800-666-222 | www.moremobility.co.nz | christchurch@moremobility.co.nz Open 9-5pm Monday to Friday & Saturday 9am-2pm FREE Home Demonstration available.
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