Social Behavior and COVID-19: Analysis of the Social Factors behind Compliance with Interventions across the United States
Since its emergence, COVID-19 has caused a great impact in health and social terms. Governments and health authorities have attempted to minimize this impact by enforcing different mandates. Recent studies have addressed the relationship between various socioeconomic variables and compliance level t...
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| author | Maleki, Morteza Bahrami, Mohsen Menendez, Monica Balsa-Barreiro, Jose |
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| description | Since its emergence, COVID-19 has caused a great impact in health and social terms. Governments and health authorities have attempted to minimize this impact by enforcing different mandates. Recent studies have addressed the relationship between various socioeconomic variables and compliance level to these interventions. However, little attention has been paid to what constitutes people’s response and whether people behave differently when faced with different interventions. Data collected from different sources show very significant regional differences across the United States. In this paper, we attempt to shed light on the fact that a response may be different depending on the health system capacity and each individuals’ social status. For that, we analyze the correlation between different societal (i.e., education, income levels, population density, etc.) and healthcare capacity-related variables (i.e., hospital occupancy rates, percentage of essential workers, etc.) in relation to people’s level of compliance with three main governmental mandates in the United States: mobility restrictions, mask adoption, and vaccine participation. Our aim was to isolate the most influential variables impacting behavior in response to these policies. We found that there was a significant relationship between individuals’ educational levels and political preferences with respect to compliance with each of these mandates. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1468252023-07-05T20:03:48Z Social Behavior and COVID-19: Analysis of the Social Factors behind Compliance with Interventions across the United States Maleki, Morteza Bahrami, Mohsen Menendez, Monica Balsa-Barreiro, Jose Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory Since its emergence, COVID-19 has caused a great impact in health and social terms. Governments and health authorities have attempted to minimize this impact by enforcing different mandates. Recent studies have addressed the relationship between various socioeconomic variables and compliance level to these interventions. However, little attention has been paid to what constitutes people’s response and whether people behave differently when faced with different interventions. Data collected from different sources show very significant regional differences across the United States. In this paper, we attempt to shed light on the fact that a response may be different depending on the health system capacity and each individuals’ social status. For that, we analyze the correlation between different societal (i.e., education, income levels, population density, etc.) and healthcare capacity-related variables (i.e., hospital occupancy rates, percentage of essential workers, etc.) in relation to people’s level of compliance with three main governmental mandates in the United States: mobility restrictions, mask adoption, and vaccine participation. Our aim was to isolate the most influential variables impacting behavior in response to these policies. We found that there was a significant relationship between individuals’ educational levels and political preferences with respect to compliance with each of these mandates. 2022-12-12T12:59:20Z 2022-12-12T12:59:20Z 2022-11-25 2022-12-09T20:22:53Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/146825 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19 (23): 15716 (2022) PUBLISHER_CC http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315716 Creative Commons Attribution https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
| spellingShingle | Maleki, Morteza Bahrami, Mohsen Menendez, Monica Balsa-Barreiro, Jose Social Behavior and COVID-19: Analysis of the Social Factors behind Compliance with Interventions across the United States |
| title | Social Behavior and COVID-19: Analysis of the Social Factors behind Compliance with Interventions across the United States |
| title_full | Social Behavior and COVID-19: Analysis of the Social Factors behind Compliance with Interventions across the United States |
| title_fullStr | Social Behavior and COVID-19: Analysis of the Social Factors behind Compliance with Interventions across the United States |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social Behavior and COVID-19: Analysis of the Social Factors behind Compliance with Interventions across the United States |
| title_short | Social Behavior and COVID-19: Analysis of the Social Factors behind Compliance with Interventions across the United States |
| title_sort | social behavior and covid 19 analysis of the social factors behind compliance with interventions across the united states |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/146825 |
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