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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