Miss Sarah A Savić Kallesøe1
1Ethox, University of Oxford, , United Kingdom
Biography:
Sarah Savić Kallesøe's doctoral research focuses on understanding the nature of public trust. She investigates the intersection between how the public experience and think of their trust in health care systems, how researchers measure the public’s trust, and how philosophers conceptualize our understanding of trust.
Abstract:
Public trust is regarded as highly influential in the functioning and stability of institutions, especially that of healthcare. However, it is arguable that the way trust is conceptualized is significantly different than the way it is operationalized and used in practice, including healthcare policy decision-making. How philosophical concepts are applied in practice has implications and for this reason, we need to establish clarity on what we mean when we talk about public trust in healthcare systems. There are gaps between what we think public trust is (i.e., how we conceptualize it) and how we measure it (i.e., how we operationalize and what we empirically understand trust to be), specifically within the context of healthcare. Investigating the gaps between conceptualization and operationalization ensures that the empirical work is grounded in sound theoretical principles, enhancing the validity and interpretability of the findings. The objective of this research to critically examine and compare the way public trust in healthcare systems is operationalized and conceptualized. This will be done by testing these concepts in dialogue with experts who measure public trust and experts who investigate the conceptualization of public trust within the context of healthcare. This research aims to investigate the question, “What are the gaps between the way experts conceptualize and operationalize public trust in healthcare? And what are, if any, the possible consequences of divergence between conceptualization and operationalization?”