Trust In US Federal, State, And Local Public Health Agencies During COVID-19: Responses And Policy Implications

• Published in: Health affairs (Millwood, Va.) Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 328 - 8
• Main Authors: SteelFisher, Gillian K, Findling, Mary G, Caporello, Hannah L, Lubell, Keri M, Vidoloff Melville, Kathleen G, Lane, Lindsay, Boyea, Alyssa A, Schafer, Thomas J, Ben-Porath, Eran N
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States The People to People Health Foundation, Inc., Project HOPE 01.03.2023
• Subjects: Adult; Adults; Communication; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Disease transmission; Health beliefs; Health education; Health information; Health promotion; Humans; Infrastructure; Internet access; Medical research; Pandemics; Policy; Population; Public Health; Public works; Questionnaires; Respondents; Sympathy; Trust; United States > US

Public health agencies' ability to protect health in the wake of COVID-19 largely depends on public trust. In February 2022 we conducted a first-of-its-kind nationally representative survey of 4,208 US adults to learn the public's reported reasons for trust in federal, state, and local pub...