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NAISS Projects
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Humanities and social sciences in One Health: Promoting just and responsible antibiotic behaviour in society
Dnr:

sens2025667

Type:

NAISS SENS

Principal Investigator:

Mirko Ancillotti

Affiliation:

Uppsala universitet

Start Date:

2025-10-01

End Date:

2026-10-01

Primary Classification:

30311: Public Health, Global Health and Social Medicine

Allocation

Abstract

Raising public awareness about antibiotic resistance and proper antibiotic use is a necessary but insufficient means to change behaviour. This is because antibiotic resistance is a complex phenomenon influenced by many factors. This three-year project will be carried out in Sweden, Italy, and Bulgaria with the purpose of developing a context-sensitive transnational public health approach to investigating the values, norms, behavioural and sociocultural determinants of antibiotic resistance and fostering socially responsible antibiotic behaviour. Specifically, it aims to:exploring the values, norms, and behavioural and sociocultural determinants of antibiotic misuse, abuse and other behaviour through the One Health perspective;investigating the role of gender perspectives, trust, prosociality, biospherism, and other psychological constructs, social norms, and values to explain antibiotic behaviour;testing behavioural and sociocultural determinants influence on antibiotic behaviour and public responsiveness to social justice and personal and collective responsibility;developing a normatively robust conceptualisation of social justice and responsibility in the antibiotic resistance discourse;creating a multi-layered protocol for investigating values, norms, and behavioural and sociocultural determinants of antibiotic resistance and sharing recommendations for context-sensitive transnational research, policy strategies, and communication.