A stated preference approach to assessing health care-quality improvements in Palestine: from theoretical validity to policy implications

Impoverishment and patients’ “willingness” and “ability” to pay for improving the quality of health care in Palestine: An assessment using the contingent valuation method

“…Respondents were recruited during July-August 2001 and March 2003, i.e., 9 and 29 months, respectively, from the beginning of the second Palestinian Uprising-hereafter, we shall refer to the two study phases as early-and late-uprising studies. The questionnaire was originally designed to supply local health care providers with complementary information to help develop co-payment schedules that could be used to assist in allocating, and partially funding, health care in Palestine [33]. With the explosion of the second Palestinian Intifada (uprising), the questionnaire was re-administered to assess the impact of the concomitant impoverishment conditions on patients' preferences.…”

Pesticides and farmer health in Nicaragua: a willingness-to-pay approach to evaluation

“…Contingent valuation (CV) is a technique for the valuation of non-market goods and has widely been applied in health economics [11,15,21,28,36,37,42]. The underlying theoretical framework is welfare economics in the case of valuation of public goods.…”

Willingness-to-Pay and Demand Curves: A Comparison of Results Obtained Using Different Elicitation Formats

“…We can use the WTP demand curve to predict the likely variations in the rates of intervention take-up to different levels of charge and, based on the costs of provision, thereafter estimate the required degree of public subsidy to ensure prespecified minimum take-up levels. Much of WTP analysis in developing countries appears to be undertaken specifically to inform price-setting, for example, studies of reproductive health care programmes (Foreit and Foreit, 2003), community-based insurance (Dong et al, 2003a), anti-malarial mosquito nets (Onwujekwe, Hanson and Fox-Rushby, 2003) and the primary health care system (Mataria et al, 2004).…”