Health Experiences, Well-Being and Preferences in Health Priority Settings
2022 (English)Conference paper, Poster (with or without abstract) (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Objectives: The aim of the paper is to evaluate how the Swedish population values hypothetical interventions aimed at reducing the number of deaths due to suicide, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer and acute myocardial infarction, controlling for the respondents’ well-being, their own experiences or knowing someone else, family or friends, who suffered or died due to any of these four diagnoses.
Methods: The analyzed data was collected via a web survey that included a discrete choice experiment performed by a sample of 1000 respondents in January 2022. The sample is representative for the Swedish adult population with respect to age, sex and region. The choice set consists of three attributes: number of lives saved, cause of death and age group affected. Apart from the choice task, the survey also included questions regarding respondents’ well-being, their experience of the four health conditions and their opinions on different grounds for the allocation of limited resources connected to the guidelines for priority setting within the health care sector in Sweden.
Results: In line with the previous literature, respondents with direct or indirect experience of at least one of the four health conditions have, on average, a lower life satisfaction that those who do not have any experience. Most of the re-spondents who experienced pancreatic cancer, breast cancer and acute myocardial infarction had decreased mental health, and these respondents have the lowest life satisfaction. In general, the respondents put a lower value on saving a life from suicide compared to deaths due to pancreatic cancer, breast cancer and a cutemyocardial infarction. Compared to saving one life from acute myocardial infarction, one has to save 1.58 lives from suicide to get the same benefit.
Conclusions: Technical analyses of health priority setting are commonplace but we approach these issues from the perspective of individual experiences and life satisfaction.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2022. Vol. 25:12, p. S162-S162, article id EE542
Series
Value in Health, ISSN 1098-3015, E-ISSN 1524-4733 ; 25:12
Keywords [en]
Health Experiences, Well-Being, Preferences, Health Priority Settings
National Category
Economics
Research subject
Economics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-102960DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2022.09.783ISI: 000897594901143OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-102960DiVA, id: diva2:1724305
Conference
ISPOR Europe 2022, Vienna, Austria, November 6-9, 2022
Projects
Priorities in health care2023-01-052023-01-052023-03-17Bibliographically approved