The COVID-19 pandemic and the Swedish strategy : Epidemiology and postmodernism
(2020) In SSM - Population Health 11.- Abstract
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.
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- author
- Lindström, Martin LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2020
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Corona virus, COVID-19, Evidence-based medicine, Herd immunity, Individual responsibility, Pandemic, Post-materialism, Postmodernism, Sweden, Swedish strategy
- in
- SSM - Population Health
- volume
- 11
- article number
- 100643
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- pmid:32885019
- scopus:85089352474
- ISSN
- 2352-8273
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ssmph.2020.100643
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 7cbf48d8-9083-4f1d-80dc-2baa9369fca3
- date added to LUP
- 2020-08-20 13:31:59
- date last changed
- 2024-09-05 02:58:59
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