Table 1 Six hypotheses about public attitudes to priority setting
From: Attitudes towards priority setting in the Norwegian health care system: a general population survey
Domain | Hypothesis # | Hypothesis |
|---|---|---|
(I) Health financing | 1 | A majority thinks that public health funding should be increased |
2 | Younger people more often than older people want to increase public health funding | |
(II) New cancer drugs | 3 | A majority accepts that new cancer drugs with poor cost-effectiveness and only moderate benefit are not used in the public health service |
4 | When cancer drugs have at least a small possibility of curing, only a minority will accept that the drugs are not used in the public health service | |
(III) Municipal services | 5 | In a specific case, only a minority will accept that care is provided in a nursing home rather than the patient’s home in order to save money |
6 | Only a minority will accept that service standards differ between municipalities |