2023 National Survey of Health Attitudes: Description and Top-Line Summary Data

Abstract

Since 2013, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has led a pioneering effort to advance a Culture of Health that is rooted in equity, with a "future where everyone has a fair and just opportunity to achieve their fullest health and wellbeing." Together with RAND, RWJF initially developed an approach to operationalizing and measuring that vision . RWJF has further evolved its efforts to transform institutions and systems to advance health, health equity, and wellbeing, with a strong emphasis on addressing structural racism and promoting the narrative that health is a right, not a privilege.In support of this effort, RAND continues to work with RWJF to advance understanding of American public mindset and attitudes towards health, health equity, and wellbeing through multiple streams of work including a periodic survey described in this report. RAND researchers worked with RWJF to design and field the National Survey of Health Attitudes to provide insight and perspective on how people in the United States think about, value, and prioritize health and consider issues of health equity. The survey was first fielded in 2015, and an updated version was fielded in 2018. This report provides a brief overview of the current 2023 survey development and content, providing a top-line summary of descriptive statistics. The report complements the overview of the 2015 survey described in the RAND report Development of the