The Public’s Perspective on the United States Public Health System

When it comes to public trust in the recommendations made by different groups to improve health, in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, the public currently trusts nurses, healthcare workers, and doctors more than the nation’s public health institutions and agencies. …

Notably, less than half the public has high trust (“a great deal” or “quite a lot”) in the nation’s public health institutions and agencies, with the exception of the CDC. Fewer than four in ten adults report having a great deal or quite a lot of trust in the National Institutes of Health (37%), the Food and Drug Administration (37%), the National Academy of Medicine (34%), and the federal Department of Health and Human Services (33%), when it comes to recommendations made to improve health. …

When it comes to trusting the recommendations of different groups to improve health, there are major differences in views between Democrats and Republicans. In addition, most Democrats (86%) favor substantially increasing federal spending on improving the nation’s public health programs, compared to four in ten Republicans. CONTINUED — pdf

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation & Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health


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