Parental Vaccine Preferences for Their Children in China: A Discrete Choice Experiment.

ABSTRACT: Background: Vaccination is one of the most cost-effective health investments to prevent and control communicable diseases. Improving the vaccination rate of children is important for all nations, and for China in particular since the advent of the two-child policy. This study aims to elicit the stated preference of parents for vaccination following recent vaccine-related incidents in China. Potential preference heterogeneity was also explored among respondents. Methods: A discrete choice experiment was developed to elicit parental preferences regarding the key features of vaccines in 2019. The study recruited a national sample of parents from 10 provinces who had at least one child aged between 6 months and 5 years old. A conditional logit model and a mixed logit model were used to estimat

SUBMITTER: Gong T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7712304 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature