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  • Chapter 53 - Compliance with UK Government Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Patterns, Predictors, and Consequences

  • from Section 6 - Designing, Leading, and Managing Responses to Emergencies and Pandemics
  • Edited by Richard Williams, University of South Wales, Verity Kemp, Independent Health Emergency Planning Consultant, Keith Porter, University of Birmingham, Tim Healing, Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London, John Drury, University of Sussex
  • Book:
    Major Incidents, Pandemics and Mental Health
    Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    01 February 2024, pp 403-410

  • Summary

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments implemented a range of measures, ranging from public health campaigns promoting regular hand washing, wearing face masks, and practising social distancing, to closing businesses, restrictions on travel, prohibition of household mixing, and implementation of shelter-in-place lockdown orders. Although many of these measures were backed with the threat of fines or imprisonment, ultimately compliance requires active cooperation on the part of citizens, and some of these measures, notably closing businesses and implementing lockdown orders, entailed significant disruption to citizens’ lives, with potentially large material, financial, and psychosocial costs. This chapter summarises the literature on the patterns, determinants, and consequences of citizens’ preventive behaviours during COVID-19, paying particular attention to the role of socioeconomic factors in determining compliance. It offers some general lessons that may be applied to future pandemics.