Table 5:

Participants’ priorities based on health care and life cycle matrix

Variable	Life cycle
Type of Health services	infancy	childhood	adulthood	old age
	vital care	Average Priority (5.7)	Average Priority (5.3)	Average Priority (8)	Average Priority (8.1)
	Long-term care	Average Priority (2.5)	Low Priority (2.5)	Average Priority (4.2)	Average Priority (6.9)
	Short-term care	Low Priority (0.9)	Average Priority (2.6)	Average Priority (3.3)	Low Priority (2.4)
	Preventive care	High Priority (15.9)	High Priority (14.6)	High Priority (9.5)	Average Priority (7.6)