Moreover, it was identified that the “severity of disease”, “age” and “type of disease” are the three (3) attributes that have the highest importance values. The first two factors although in different order were also found in the study of Winkelhage and Diederich  in Germany to influence public preferences in healthcare priority setting. In their study, the most important was age and then severity of the disease. The finding that the “severity of disease” is an important parameter for priority setting and resource allocation in health care is in line with the findings of other studies [18, 19, 23, 28]. Our findings are in line with previous studies indicated that the severity of the disease was either an important parameter for resource allocation in health [1, 18, 19, 23] or was strongly supported by the public as an important health care priority setting criterion [6, 15, 23, 28, 38]. Moreover, the study findings indicate that priority should be given to patients with a severe disease or urgent conditions. The opinions of people participating in the study chose criteria that are mostly concerned with issues related to the value of life, social justice and equality .