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ArticleThe European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care2026

Are there differences in health state preferences between urban and rural respondents? a comparison using time trade-off and discrete choice experiment.

Shitong Xie, Jing Wu, Feng Xie

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Article in The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Shitong XieSchool of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
Jing WuSchool of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China. jingwu@tju.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6012-2785
Feng XieDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China 72174142National Natural Science Foundation of China 72404205Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Commission 23JCQNJC01650
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objectivesTo compare health state preferences elicited using composite time trade-off (cTTO) and discrete choice experiment with duration (DCE

methodsRespondents from the general population were recruited in urban and rural areas across China. Responses of 8 cTTO tasks and 10 DCE

resultsOf 3,320 respondents (50.3% male, age range 18-90 years) included, 1,980 (59.6%) resided in urban areas. The mean cTTO value was significantly different between urban and rural respondents across all 295 evaluated states, with the mean (SD) difference of 0.014 (0.119) (range: -0.283 to 0.375). After adjustment, urban respondents assigned significantly higher cTTO values (Coef. = 0.021, p = 0.034). In cTTO value set, the MAD between urban and rural was 0.0276 for states with mean value > 0.5, 0.0327 for states with mean value 0-0.5, and 0.0300 for those states with negative values. For DCE

conclusionRural respondents tended to assign a lower utility value than urban respondents when evaluating the same state, reflecting an observable urban-rural preference gap.

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Choice BehaviorHealth StatusRural PopulationUrban PopulationAdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overChinaFemaleHumansInterviews as TopicMaleMiddle AgedSocioeconomic FactorsTime FactorsDiscrete choice experimentPreferenceRuralSF-6DTime trade-offUrbanUtility

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