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Preferences can be measured in different ways. It is unclear to what extent the findings of those methods are coherent. During her internship at RIVM (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment), Elisa de Weerd, student of the Research Master Health Sciences at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, researched the relation between two methods for measuring preferences: the Q methodology and Participatory Value Evaluation (PVE).

Are you interested in researching a novel method for economic evaluation (PVE)? And are you curious about what the added value of this method can be for the health care sector? Then the following PhD position might be of your interest!

A vaccine against COVID-19 is currently being developed. To achieve group immunity, a vaccination rate of about 75% is required. Together with Erasmus University Rotterdam and Maastricht University, Niek Mouter of TU Delft will investigate whether the Dutch are willing to vaccinate and what their preferences are for policies to stimulate the population's willingness to vaccinate.

A lot of research is being done to further develop PVE and the method is applied by various governments. In addition, PVE plays an increasingly important role in education. Graduates from different faculties use PVE as a method in their thesis.

Last week the first results were presented of the PVE lifting corona measures in the Netherlands. Just in time to be offered to the RIVM and Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport before the announcement of lifting of corona measures by Mark Rutte and Hugo de Jonge. It is striking that there are a lot of similarities between the policies of the cabinet and what respondents indicate as an optimal strategy.