Financial Subsidies

Financial subsidies were the strongest predictor of genetic testing uptake in the study. Subsidised individuals had genetic testing uptake above 90% across every socioeconomic stratum. Subsidies produced larger additive uptake gains in low…

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Financial subsidies were the strongest predictor of genetic testing uptake in the study. Subsidised individuals had genetic testing uptake above 90% across every socioeconomic stratum. Subsidies produced larger additive uptake gains in lower-income groups than in higher-income groups. Partial subsidies appeared as effective as full subsidies for increasing testing uptake. The study interprets any financial support as crossing a decision threshold for testing.