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Public engagement in setting healthcare priorities: a ranking exercise in Cyprus

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Title
Public engagement in setting healthcare priorities: a ranking exercise in Cyprus
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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, August 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12962-017-0078-3
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Antonis Farmakas, Mamas Theodorou, Petros Galanis, Georgios Karayiannis, Stefanos Ghobrial, Nikos Polyzos, Evridiki Papastavrou, Eirini Agapidaki, Kyriakos Souliotis

Abstract

In countries such as Cyprus the financial crisis and the recession have severely affected the funding and priority setting of the health care system. There is evidence highlighting the importance of population' preferences in designing priorities for health care settings. Although public preferences have been thorough analysed in many countries, there is a research gap in terms of simultaneously investigating the relative importance and the weight of differing and competing criteria for determining healthcare priority settings. The main objective of the study was tο investigate public preferences for the relative utility and weight of differing and competing criteria for health care priority setting in Cyprus. The 'conjoint analysis' technique was applied to develop a ranking exercise. The aim of the study was to identify the preferences of the participants for alternative options. Participants were asked to grade in a priority order 16 hypothetical case scenarios of patients with different disease and of diverse socio-economic characteristics awaiting treatment. The sample was purposive and consisted of 100 Cypriots, selected from public locations all over the country. It was revealed that the "severity of the disease" and the "age of the patient" were the key prioritization criteria. Participants assigned the smallest relative value to the criterion "healthy lifestyle". More precisely, participants older than 35 years old assigned higher relative importance to "age", while younger participants to the "severity of the disease". The "healthy lifestyle" criterion was assigned to the lowest relative importance to by all participants. In Cyprus, public participation in health care priority setting is almost inexistent. Nonetheless, it seems that the public's participation in this process could lead to a wider acceptance of the healthcare system especially as a result of the financial crisis and the upcoming reforms implemented such as the establishment of the General System of Health Insurance.

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Unknown 46 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 15%
Student > Master 4 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 7%
Student > Bachelor 3 7%
Other 4 9%
Unknown 18 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 6 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 11%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 11%
Social Sciences 5 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Other 4 9%
Unknown 20 43%
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