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Antibiotic Resistance: A Multimethod Investigation of Individual Responsibility and Behaviour

Ancillotti, Mirko, 1981- (author)
Uppsala universitet,Centrum för forsknings- och bioetik
Eriksson, Stefan, Associate Professor Dr. 1963- (thesis advisor)
Uppsala universitet,Centrum för forsknings- och bioetik,Teologiska institutionen
Nihlén Fahlquist, Jessica, Associate Professor Dr. 1976- (thesis advisor)
Uppsala universitet,Centrum för forsknings- och bioetik
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Andersson, Dan I., Professor (thesis advisor)
Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för medicinsk biokemi och mikrobiologi,Institutionen för folkhälso- och vårdvetenskap,Mikrobiologi
Giubilini, Alberto, Doctor (opponent)
The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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ISBN 9789151311241
Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2021
English 116 s.
Series: Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine, 1651-6206 ; 1716
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  • The rapid development of antibiotic resistance is directly related to how antibiotics are used in society. The international effort to decrease and optimise the use of antibiotics should be sustained by the development of policies that are sensitive to social and cultural contexts.The overarching aim of the thesis was to explore and discuss the Swedish public’s beliefs, values and preferences influencing engagement in judicious antibiotic behaviour.Study I explored through focus group discussions lay people’s perceptions and beliefs about antibiotics and antibiotic resistance. The Health Belief Model was used to identify factors that could promote or hinder engagement in judicious antibiotic behaviour. Participants found antibiotic resistance to be a serious problem but were not equally worried about being affected by it. There was a tension between individual and collective reasons for engaging in judicious behaviour.Study II explored lay people’s views on the moral challenges posed by antibiotic resistance through focus group discussions. Participants identified in the decreasing availability of effective antibiotics a problem of justice, which involves individual as well as collective moral responsibility. Different levels of policy demandingness were discussed in light of these results.Study III investigated, through an online Discrete Choice Experiment, public preferences regarding antibiotic treatment and the relative weight of antibiotic resistance in decision-making. Public behaviour may be influenced by concerns over the rise of antibiotic resistance. Therefore, stressing individual responsibility for antibiotic resistance in clinical and societal communication may affect personal decision-making.Study IV clarified the notions of collective and individual moral responsibility for antibiotic resistance and suggested a virtue-based account thereof. While everyone is morally responsible for minimising his/her own contribution to antibiotic resistance, individuals do or do not engage in judicious antibiotic behaviour with different degrees of voluntariness.The findings suggest that people could change their behaviour due to concerns over their own contribution to antibiotic resistance. Effective health communication should be developed from an appraisal of people’s attitudes, beliefs and social norms that influence antibiotic resistance related behaviours. Policy demandingness should take into account socioeconomic factors characterising local realities. 

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MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)
MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Hälsovetenskap -- Medicinsk etik (hsv//swe)
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Health Sciences -- Medical Ethics (hsv//eng)

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Antibiotic resistance
Behavior
Health Behavior
Health Belief Model
Discrete Choice Experiment
Preferences
Bioethics
Empirical bioethics
Moral responsibility
Justice
Policy demandingness
Virtue ethics
Bioetik
Bioethics

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