Health Populi May 2, 2024
While people in the U.S. perceive a dramatic rise in mental health conditions among fellow health citizens growing over the past five years, people note barriers of cost, insufficient supply of providers, and stigma as barriers to getting care in the latest Gallup and West Health poll on the subject.
In West Health’s words, three-quarters of Americans feel that, “mental health takes a back seat to physical health” in the U.S.
A key theme of the research found that Americans find that mental health is not treated as well as physical health in the U.S.: the first bar chart tells us that only about 5% of people see mental health issues “identified and treated better” than physical health issues.
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