The COVID-19 pandemic and the Swedish strategy: Epidemiology and postmodernism.
COVID-19
Corona virus
Evidence-based medicine
Herd immunity
Individual responsibility
Pandemic
Post-materialism
Postmodernism
Sweden
Swedish strategy
Journal
SSM - population health
ISSN: 2352-8273
Titre abrégé: SSM Popul Health
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101678841
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2020
Aug 2020
Historique:
received:
03
06
2020
revised:
06
08
2020
accepted:
06
08
2020
entrez:
5
9
2020
pubmed:
5
9
2020
medline:
5
9
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The aim is to outline the underlying epidemiological thinking and mentality in post-materialist and postmodern Sweden behind the Swedish strategy. The aim is not to investigate the handling of the pandemic in Sweden in the long-run. Overconfidence in herd immunity, overconfidence in individual responsibility in a pandemic needing community-centered approaches, overconfidence in evidence-based medicine and neglect to coordinate with the WHO and other countries may be associated with post-materialist values and postmodernism including opposition against modern authority, rationality and science, and also an anti-traditionalist stance towards older generations. COVID-19 epidemiology and postmodernism may be a dangerous combination.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32885019
doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2020.100643
pii: S2352-8273(20)30280-9
pii: 100643
pmc: PMC7453138
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
100643Informations de copyright
© 2020 The Author. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
There are no conflicts of interest.
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