Health versus other sectors: Multisectoral resource allocation preferences in Mukono district, Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To elicit citizen preferences for national budget resource allocation in Uganda, examine respondents' preferences for health vis-à-vis other sectors, and compare these preferences with actual government budget allocations.

Methods

We surveyed 432 households in urban and rural areas of Mukono district in central Uganda.We elicited citizens' preferences for resource allocation across all sectors using a best-worst scaling (BWS) survey. The BWS survey consisted of 16 sectors corresponding to the Uganda national budget line items. Respondents chose, from a subset of four sectors across 16 choice tasks, which sectors they thought were most and least important to allocate resources to. We utilized the relative best-minus-worst score method and a conditional logistic reg

SUBMITTER: Yemeke TT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7392331 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature