How should COVID-19 vaccines be distributed between the Global North and South: a discrete choice experiment in six European countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The global distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations remains highly unequal. We examine public preferences in six European countries regarding the allocation of COVID-19 vaccines between the Global South and Global North.

Methods

We conducted online discrete choice experiments with adult participants in France (n=766), Germany (n=1964), Italy (n=767), Poland (n=670), Spain (n=925), and Sweden (n=938). Respondents were asked to decide which one of two candidates should receive the vaccine first. The candidates varied on four attributes: age, mortality risk, employment, and living in a low- or high-income country. We analysed the relevance of each attribute in allocation decisions using conditional logit regressions.

Results

In all six countries, respondents prio

SUBMITTER: Steinert JI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9592081 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature