Improving uptake of non-communicable disease screening in Sri Lanka: eliciting people's preferences using a discrete choice experiment

摘要

A national programme to universally screen the population between 35 and 65 years for non-communicable diseases was established at 'Healthy Lifestyle Centres (HLCs)' in 2011 in Sri Lanka. Despite several efforts by policymakers, the uptake of screening remained 2 hours and Rs. 1000 with unfriendly staff. Thus, people's preferences on service delivery aspects seemed to have differed from government priorities. Preferences when ill and apparently healthy differed, as they preferred to spend less time and money when healthy than when ill.