Preferences of urban Zimbabweans for health and life lived at different ages.
(2002) Bulletin of the World Health Organization — Vol. 80, n° 3, p. 204-209 (2002)
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- 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.
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Jelsma, J., Shumba, D., Kristian, H., De Weerdt, W., & De Cock, P. (2002). Preferences of urban Zimbabweans for health and life lived at different ages. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 80(3), 204-209. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/77299 (Original work published 2002)