2006/05/05 by Mark Peterson · 22 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Business #Economic and Environmental Valuation #Economic growth #Economics #Health disparities and outcomes #Market orientation #Marketing #Mathematics #Medicine #Orientation (vector space) #Political science #Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction #Psychology #Public economics #Quality (philosophy) #Quality of life (healthcare) #Weighting
paper · doi:10.1177/0276146705285682
published in Journal of Macromarketing 26(1), 45-58 (SAGE Publishing)
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Both national and international policy makers have long needed a better understanding of the relative importance of quality-of-life (QOL) dimensions in a society. By taking a market orientation to benefit citizens, this research uses con-joint analysis and primary data from respondents in three countries (the United States, France, and Turkey) to explore how individuals assign importance weights across seven dimensions of QOL. The mean values for the importance weights of these QOL dimensions in each country of this study were compared with those of an equal-weighting scheme and were found to be different in most instances. In addition, the same pattern of heterogeneity among the weights of the key QOL dimensions was observed across the three countries of this study.