Financial incentives to promote preventive care: abridged secondary publication

1. Vouchers are a financial incentive that reduce userfees for preventive services in the private sector.Older people preferred vouchers with attributes offlexibility, no expiry date, and a transparent list ofservice charges. These attributes could potentiallyinfluence the acceptance and use of the vouchersby older people who were willing to trade off somevoucher’s financial value for these attributes.2. As a financial incentive for flu vaccination, alottery draw was less preferred by older adults,compared with cash or a shopping voucher.Older adults were willing to trade off some ofthe reward amount in exchange for a reminderabout flu vaccination.