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Some of what we've learned about health behavior re: chronic disease prevention is highly applicable to pandemic mitigation....
E.g., this from @Lucy_WellNow: https://lucyaphramor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/NHD-Extra-Lucy-Aphramor.pdf
"Health promotion based on behaviour
change has greatest benefit in groups for
whom structural, socio-political factors are
already very much in their favour."
For COVID, restrictions on behavior w/o accompanying supports & accommodations is a recipe for unjust outcomes.
change has greatest benefit in groups for
whom structural, socio-political factors are
already very much in their favour."
For COVID, restrictions on behavior w/o accompanying supports & accommodations is a recipe for unjust outcomes.
Yes, if those of us who are able to work from home do stay home as much as possible, we can reduce the level of community transmission and make conditions safer for those who are required to put themselves at risk for their employment. But...
A public health response that relies restrictions & behavior change w/o government supports to make working conditions safer for front-line workers & remove expectation of return-to-work for those for whom it would be particularly unsafe is predictably ineffective & unjust.
. @sbagen and I discuss this in our short, general-interest piece published in @DemJournal: https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/how-the-law-harms-public-health/
And in our follow-up law review article (now hoping for offers of publication), "The Personal Responsibility Pandemic," here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3656789