Public preferences for interventions to prevent emerging infectious disease threats: a discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

When faced with an emergent epidemic with high mortality and morbidity potential, policy makers must decide what public health interventions to deploy at different stages of the outbreak. However, almost nothing is known about how the public view these interventions or how they trade off risks (of disease) with inconvenience (of interventions). In this paper, we aim to understand public perceptions on pandemic interventions, as well as to identify if there are any distinct respondent preference classes.

Design

A discrete choice experiment.

Setting

This study was fielded in Singapore between November 2012 and February 2013.

Participants

A random sample of 500 Singapore residents aged 21 and over, including 271 women and 229 men, was analysed.

Outcom

SUBMITTER: Cook AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5857709 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature