ReviewFrontiers in public health2017
Improving Access to, Use of, and Outcomes from Public Health Programs: The Importance of Building and Maintaining Trust with Patients/Clients.
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- The role of trust in engaging community-based task forces and agencies among minoritized communities during a public health emergency.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026Article
- Parental decision making regarding level of newborn screening participation in the homebirth setting.Journal of community genetics · 2025Article
- Decoding vaccine hesitancy: a health belief model-driven comparative study of vaccination awareness dynamics in COVID-19 vaccination intentions.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Segmenting Preventive Health Behavior: Gender Disparities and Psychosocial Predictors in a Culturally Diverse Italian Region.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- Exploring the attitudes of healthcare professionals towards primary healthcare in northwest Syria.BMC primary care · 2025Article
- Acceptability of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine as malaria intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women living with HIV in Southern Mozambique.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The Role of Boundary Spanning in Building Trust: A Place-Based Study on Engaging Hardly Reached Groups in Community Healthcare Settings.Sociology of health & illness · 2025Article
- Engaging community health center advisors to identify research priorities for health equity.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2025Article
- The evolution of vaccine hesitancy through the COVID-19 pandemic: A semi-structured interview study on booster and bivalent doses.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2024Article
- Public comfort with the use of ChatGPT and expectations for healthcare.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2024Article
- Community engagement for stakeholder and community trust in healthcare: Short-term evaluation findings from a nationwide initiative in Lao PDR.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Article
- Promoting Rural-Residing Parents' Receptivity to HPV Vaccination: Targeting Messages and Mobile Clinic Implementation.Vaccines · 2024Article
- Development and validation of the Trust in Multidimensional Healthcare Systems Scale (TIMHSS).International journal for equity in health · 2024Article
- Equity in blood transfusion precision services.International journal for equity in health · 2024Article
- Advance Care Planning: A Story of Trust Within the Family.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2024Article
- Psychosocial Factors Influencing Parents' Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccination for Their Children: An Italian Cross-Sectional Study.Vaccines · 2024Article
- Trust and perceived mental health access: Exploring the relationship between perceived access barriers and veteran-reported trust.Psychological services · 2024Article
- Development and validation of the Trust in Government measure (TGM).BMC public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
The central argument in this paper is that "public trust" is critical for developing and maintaining the health and wellbeing of individuals, communities, and societies. I argue that public health practitioners and policy makers need to take "public trust" seriously if they intend to improve both the public's health and the engagement between members of the public and public health systems. Public health practitioners implement a range of services and interventions aimed at improving health but implicit a requirement for individuals to trust the practitioners and the services/interventions, before they engage with them. I then go on to provide an overview of the theory of trust within sociology and show why it is important to understand this theory in order to promote trust in public health services. I then draw on literature in three classic areas of public health-hospitals, cancer screening, and childhood immunization-to show why trust is vital in terms of understanding and potentially improving uptake of services. The case studies in this paper reveal that public health practitioners need to understand the centrality of building and maintaining trusting relationships with patients/clients because people who distrust public health services are less likely to use them, less likely to follow advice or recommendations, and more likely to have poorer health outcomes.
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