Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To determine the age-weighting preferences of urban Zimbabweans in relation to health care priorities.
METHOD: A total of 67 randomly selected residents of a high-density area of Harare participated in the study. Participants were asked "person trade-off" questions to determine their preferences in terms of the numbers of people of various ages who would be saved from death and from suffering a year of ill-health relative to the number of 30-year-olds who would be saved from these eventualities.
FINDINGS: The responses indicate that the value of averting a year of ill-health was judged greatest for 15-year-olds and was equal for people aged 1, 30, and 45 years. The value of averting a death primarily reflected the expected years of life lost, but the influence of age-weighting was evident in that 15 years was the most highly valued age.
CONCLUSION: Although the age-weighting curves did not correspond exactly with the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) age-weights, Zimbabweans showed a preference for saving the lives of young adults. The GBD age-weights should be used to determine the disability-adjusted life years lost in the Zimbabwean population.
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
|---|---|
| Tidsskrift | Bulletin of the World Health Organization |
| Vol/bind | 80 |
| Udgave nummer | 3 |
| Sider (fra-til) | 204-9 |
| Antal sider | 6 |
| ISSN | 0042-9686 |
| Status | Udgivet - 2002 |
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