Brazil is the largest buyer of pesticides in world and allows use chemicals that have long been banned other countries. One four Brazilian cities has water polluted by agrochemicals, poorest most vulnerable suburban communities are considered to be suffering disproportionately from this exposure pesticide contamination drinking water. To increase quantity improve quality water, 2012, Pipiripau ...

Abstract Background Efforts are underway to develop an easy-to-use contraceptive microarray patch (MAP) that could expand the range of self-administrable methods. This paper presents results from a discrete choice experiment (DCE) designed support optimal product design. Methods We conducted DCE survey users and non-users contraception in New Delhi, India (496 women) Ibadan, Nigeria (two versio...

Health preference research (HPR) is the subfield of health economics dedicated to understanding value and health-related objects using observational or experimental methods. In a discrete choice experiment (DCE), utility in set may differ systematically between persons due interpersonal heterogeneity (e.g., brand-name medication, generic no medication). To allow for heterogeneity, probabilities...

BACKGROUND Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) are increasingly used in studies in healthcare research but there is still little empirical evidence for the predictive value of these hypothetical situations in similar real life circumstances. The aim of this paper is to compare the stated preferences in a DCE and the accompanying questionnaire with the revealed preferences of young parents who ha...

BACKGROUND While there is an increasing emphasis on patient empowerment and shared decision-making, subjective values for attributes associated with their treatment still need to be measured and considered. This contribution seeks to define properties of an ideal drug treatment of individuals concerned with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Because of the lack of information on p...

Conjoint analysis is a stated-preference survey method that can be used to elicit responses that reveal preferences, priorities, and the relative importance of individual features associated with health care interventions or services. Conjoint analysis methods, particularly discrete choice experiments (DCEs), have been increasingly used to quantify preferences of patients, caregivers, physician...