Measuring Public Preferences Regarding Equity in Health
- Abstract
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The study aims to identify what ordinary citizens interpret as 'fairness' in relation to health and health care; examine the relative importance placed by the public on different terms of equity and the extent to which they are prepared to trade off efficiency against equity in the distribution of health care resources.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Attitudes to health-related issues, including the rationing of health care according to different circumstances
- Variables
- http://www.data-archive.ac.[…]&class=0&from=sn#gs
- Keywords
- Great Britain, age, attitudes, chronic illness, costs, ethics, health, health services, ill health, life expectancy, life styles, medical care, men, social class
- Identifier Variables
- GOR
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Value of health
- Area of Health System
- Public health
- Data Available
- Risk behaviours, Socio-economic, Demographic
- Data collecting organization (s)
- University of York and University of Sheffield
- Data Type
- Survey (cross-sectional)
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 2000
- Unit of Analysis
- Individual
- Sample
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Adults aged 18 years and over in Great Britain during 2000. 832 survey participants
- Availability
- ESDS Access and Preservation, UK Data Archive
- Conditions of Access
- Free registration access
- Link
- http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/[…]/snDescription.asp?sn=4462
- Contact
- help@esds.ac.uk
- Publications
- http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/publicationListForSN.asp?sn=4462