Using Societal Values to Inform Public Health Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Health Preference Research

DiSantostefano, Rachael L.; Terris‐Prestholt, Fern

doi:10.1007/s40271-021-00516-0

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“…While our focus is on future pandemics, there is an emerging literature exploring DCEs in relation to pandemics and the COVID‐19 pandemic exploring trade‐offs for health control policies such as social distancing restrictions and lockdowns (Belle & Cantarelli, 2022; Chorus et al., 2020; Loría‐Rebolledo et al., 2022; Manipis et al., 2021), disease surveillance (Degeling et al., 2020) and preferences for vaccinations (e.g., Tatar et al., 2022) (see DiSantostefano & Terris‐Prestholt, 2021 for an overview of COVID health preference research studies). The focus of those studies is on health‐related policy or prevention and its impact on health and non‐health outcomes with some simultaneous exploration of, and trade‐offs with, economic outcomes (Loría‐Rebolledo et al., 2022; Manipis et al., 2021; Reed et al., 2020).…”

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Preparing for future pandemics: A multi‐national comparison of health and economic trade‐offs

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Government investment in preparing for pandemics has never been more relevant.The COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated debate regarding the trade-offs societies are prepared to make between health and economic activity. What is not known is:(1) how much the public in different countries are prepared to pay in forgone GDP to avoid mortality from future pandemics; and (2) which health and economic policies the public in different countries want their government to invest in to prepare for and respond to the next pandemic. Using a future-focused, multi-national discrete choice experiment, we quantify these trade-offs and find that the tax-paying public is prepared to pay $3.92 million USD (Canada), $4.39 million USD (UK), $5.57 million USD (US) and $7.19 million USD (Australia) in forgone GDP per death avoided in the next pandemic. We find the health policies that taxpayers want to invest in before the next pandemic and the economic policies they want activated once the next pandemic hits are relatively consistent across the countries, with some exceptions. Such results can inform economic policy responses and government investment in health policies to reduce the adverse impacts of the next pandemic.

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