Negotiating un/sanitary citizenship: the reception of UK government COVID-19 public health messaging by racialised people highly exposed to infection
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Citizens, particularly from minoritized groups, challenged COVID-19 public health messaging, highlighting unworkable guidance and resisting individual responsibility for pandemic management. Their experiences reveal active engagement with, and resistance to, health policies.
Area Of Science
- Public Health
- Sociology
- Health Policy
Background
- Governments globally emphasized citizen responsibility in managing COVID-19 risks.
- Public health strategies often created 'sanitary' versus 'unsanitary' citizenship distinctions.
- Minority ethnic and religious groups disproportionately bore the burden of COVID-19.
Purpose Of The Study
- To examine citizen responses to UK Government COVID-19 public health messaging.
- To explore how minoritized groups perceived and reacted to pandemic guidance.
- To analyze the role of citizens in enacting and resisting health policy.
Main Methods
- Qualitative study using narrative interviews.
- Interviewed 43 individuals who contracted COVID-19.
- Focused on participants from minoritized religious and racialized groups.
Main Results
- Interviewees refuted claims of irresponsibility for contracting COVID-19.
- Participants highlighted the impracticality of pandemic guidance.
- Critiques included the racialization of messaging and resistance to individual responsibility.
Conclusions
- Citizens actively engaged with and contested public health messaging.
- The study underscores the limitations of individualizing pandemic response.
- Resistance to health policy is a key aspect of citizen engagement.
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