Eric Andrew Finkelstein, Semra Ozdemir, Vinh Anh Huynh, Junxing Chay, Axel Mühlbacher, Hiang Khoon Tan
OBJECTIVE: During COVID-19, governments imposed restrictions that reduced pandemic-related health risks but likely increased personal and societal mental health risk, partly through reductions in household income. This study aims to quantify the public's willingness to accept trade-offs between pandemic health risks, household income reduction, and increased risk for mental illness that may result from future pandemic-related policies. METHODS: 547 adults from an online panel participated in a discrete choice experiment where they were asked to choose between hypothetical future pandemic scenarios...
May 6, 2024: Value in Health: the Journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research