Eligible controls were identified using a brief screening questionnaire to collect information on demographics, cancer history, state of residence, relationship to the respective patient and willingness to participate in a research project.
In this case the benefit, or utility, is given in monetary units based on the respective treatment option's Willingness-to-pay EUV.
Figure 3 below introduces the idea of the dialogue table where the stakeholder groups need to sit and bring their respective views, interests and a willingness to address the issues affecting social sustainability and social justice.
The recruitment criteria for peers, community lay persons and VHT members included: 1) ability to read and write, 2) permanent residence in the respective community, 3) respected in the community, 4) experience in community health mobilization, and 5) willingness to volunteer during the study period.
After each scenario, participants rated the assumed costs and the perceived sustainability of fulfilling the respective stakeholder claims and indicated their willingness to invest, as well as the amount they would invest, in the company.
Bosasso, Garowe and Gardo were chosen as health services decentralization pilot Districts because of the willingness and commitment from the respective Mayors as well as capacity to sustain services in the long run.
Resolving such a policy issue will be facilitated if the malaria burden is quantified and public willingness to pay for the respective components of malaria programmes are known but such evidence have been scanty [ 3].
They then multiplied these figures by the number of visits for the respective population subsets multiplied by the average willingness-to-pay value for each subset.
Additionally, a confounding factor that is rarely explored when considering clinic performance concerns the physician's willingness to see patients before their respective appointment times.
In accordance with RDS methodology, the initial participants of the study, known as 'seeds', were members of the target IDU population in their respective cities, and were selected based on their willingness to recruit their peers into the study.
