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  • Chapter 54 - The Threat of Pandemics to Interwoven Material, Social, Health, and Political Resources: Conservation of Resources as a Strategy for Avoiding Repeating Past Failure

  • 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 411-416

  • Summary

    Conservation of resources (COR) theory demands that we examine the full spectrum of potential resource loss and resources at risk in circumstances of a life-threatening pandemic, in order to predict and respond to psychological, social, material, financial, and sociopolitical outcomes. In the case of the COVID-19 global pandemic, health experts and academics responded within their siloed expertise, which ignored economic and sociopolitical imperatives, resulting in near-disastrous consequences that they still fail to appreciate. Many people in the population at risk had their employment, availability to feed themselves and their families, and housing and shelter threatened, as well as their health and lives, but this interwoven network of resources was mostly ignored. This divide between the sociopolitical-economic domain and the public health domain led to public resistance and allowed an authoritarian political wedge to further complicate and undermine not only health, but also the very fabric of democracy.