The Hill (3/13, Timotija ) reports a Gallup survey publishedThursday suggests that “Americans’ views of their mental and physical health are at the lowest point in nearly 25 years, a downturn that accelerated at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and has continued since.” According to the poll, about three-quarters of Americans rated their mental health (at 75 percent) and physical health (at 76 percent) as “excellent” or “good.” But the number of respondents “who described their mental health as ‘excellent’ shrunk to 31 percent. Regarding physical health, those characterizing it as ‘excellent’ went down to 24 percent, Gallup found.” The survey reached a low in 2022, “when the number of Americans who said their mental health rating was ‘excellent’ dropped to 31 percent. The lowest figure for physical health was in 2023 at 24 percent.”
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— “Views of mental, physical health lowest in almost 25 years: Gallup,” Filip Timotija, The Hill, March 13, 2025