Are all health gains equally important? An exploration of acceptable health as a reference point in health care priority setting

Table 3 Linear regressions of the area under the curve (AUC) of AHC on respondent characteristics (n = 1067)

	Basic model		Basic model & health		Basic model & health, lifestyle		Basic model & health, lifestyle, and life expectancy		Mean acceptable quality of life		Acceptable age of death
	Coef.	S.E.	Coef.	S.E.	Coef.	S.E.	Coef.	S.E.	Coef.	S.E.	Coef.	S.E.
Age	-0.43^*	0.17	-0.34^*	0.17	-0.29	0.17	-0.25	0.17	-0.01	0.00	0.15	0.12
Age sq.	0.01^**	0.00	0.01^**	0.00	0.01^*	0.00	0.00^*	0.00	0.00	0.00	-0.00	0.00
Gender (male)	0.52	0.65	0.41	0.64	0.42	0.65	0.52	0.64	0.01	0.01	-0.54	0.46
Income low	-1.88^*	0.91	-1.55	0.91	-1.08	0.91	-0.93	0.90	-0.02	0.02	0.22	0.65
Income medium	-1.98^*	0.80	-1.89^*	0.80	-1.63^*	0.79	-1.42	0.78	-0.03	0.02	-0.65	0.56
Employed	2.14^**	0.72	1.51^*	0.73	1.42	0.73	1.33	0.71	0.03	0.02	-0.86	0.51
Children	1.02	0.74	0.73	0.74	0.97	0.73	1.08	0.72	0.01	0.02	0.56	0.52
Severe disorder			-2.14^**	0.81	-2.03^*	0.80	-1.78^*	0.79	-0.02	0.02	-1.14^*	0.57
Chronic illness			-1.61^*	0.77	-1.71^*	0.77	-1.59^*	0.75	-0.03	0.02	-0.67	0.54
Regular exercise					0.61	0.64	0.46	0.63	-0.00	0.01	0.35	0.45
Healthy diet					2.68^***	0.67	2.34^***	0.66	0.06^***	0.01	0.38	0.47
Smoking					-0.91	0.64	-1.00	0.63	-0.01	0.01	-0.92^*	0.46
Alcohol intake					0.87	0.66	0.85	0.66	0.01	0.01	-0.13	0.47
Kin age low							-5.04^***	0.91	-0.07^***	0.02	-5.81^***	0.66
Kin age medium							-3.80^***	0.72	-0.07^***	0.02	-2.65^***	0.52
Constant	36.25^***	3.17	35.42^***	3.15	33.17^***	3.22	35.70^***	3.20	0.69^***	0.07	82.78^***	2.30
Adj R-squared		0.04		0.05		0.07		0.10		0.06		0.10

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