ArticlePublic policy and administration2022
In trust we trust: The impact of trust in government on excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Article in Public policy and administration, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed.
- Mortality risk during the COVID-19 pandemic is shaped by human development.BMC global and public health · 2026Article
- Regional patterns of excess mortality in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic: a state-level analysis.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Does Government Trust Matter? The Effectiveness of Policy Responses in the Health-Disaster Era.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Article
- The impact of social cohesion and risk communication on excess mortality due to COVID-19 in 213 countries: a retrospective analysis.BMC public health · 2024Article
- National governance and excess mortality due to COVID-19 in 213 countries: a retrospective analysis and perspectives on future pandemics.Globalization and health · 2023Review
- In the COVID-19 pandemic, who did we trust? An eight-country cross-sectional study.Journal of global health · 2023Article
- Trust as a key measure of quality and safety after the restriction of family contact in Canadian long-term care settings during the COVID-19 pandemic.Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Review
- Compliance with COVID-19 prevention measures during the onset of the pandemic in Australia: investigating the role of trust in federal and state governments and scientists.Australian journal of psychology · 2023Article
- Assessing the impact of local context and priorities regarding domestic disease outbreaks and imported risk on early pandemic response: Cross-continental comparisons.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Excess all-cause mortality in the USA and Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 and 2021.Scientific reports · 2022Observational
- Social presence for strategic health messages: An examination of state governments' use of Twitter to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.Public relations review · 2022Article
- Impact of pre-pandemic travel mobility patterns on the spatial diffusion of COVID-19 in South Korea.Journal of transport & health · 2022Article
- COVID-19 and the ongoing emergency.Revista peruana de medicina experimental y salud publicaArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought forward myriad challenges to public policy, central of which is understanding the different contextual factors that can influence the effectiveness of policy responses across different systems. In this article, we explore how trust in government can influence the ability of COVID-19 policy responses to curb excess mortality during the pandemic. Our findings indicate that stringent policy responses play a central role in curbing excess mortality. They also indicate that such relationship is not only influenced by systematic and structural factors, but also by citizens' trust in government. We leverage our findings to propose a set of recommendations for policymakers on how to enhance crisis policymaking and strengthen the designs of the widely used underlying policy learning processes.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.