In this research article launched on-line by The Journal of Well being Coverage, Politics and Legislation, KFF’s Elizabeth Hamel, Alex Montero and Mollyann Brodie replicate on 30 years of public opinion information to supply views on how the general public accesses, evaluates, and makes use of well being data, and what latest developments might recommend about the way forward for the well being data (and misinformation) surroundings. The article examines public information gaps on well being and the function of partisanship in nationwide well being debates, how sources of well being data have modified over time, declines in belief of knowledge from authorities well being businesses, and the present period of well being data, together with widespread uncertainty among the many public and rising use of social media and emergent applied sciences.
