In the present study “age” was identified the second most significant attribute in terms of utility and importance. Results indicated that older participants gave priority to younger patients. This decision might be based on internal motives and interests . Our findings are in line with the those of other similar studies [6, 47] which used the same conjoint analysis methodology and support consistently that young people should have priority over others for health care treatment [6, 11, 23, 48–54]. On the other hand, other researchers suggest that age should not be a priority setting criterion or yield small support in its favor [1, 10, 11, 14, 18, 19, 21, 38, 55–60]. This implies that these findings may reflect the fact that the same methodology was used in all these studies. This premise, that the order of the questions and the nationality of the participants seem to affect the research results, is also evident in other studies [5, 14, 15, 20, 51, 61–63].