Contingent Valuation and Health Sector Reform in Developing Countries: The Palestinian Case - Couverture souple

MATARIA, Awad

 
9783639173604: Contingent Valuation and Health Sector Reform in Developing Countries: The Palestinian Case
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3639173600 ISBN 13 : 9783639173604
Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

This Thesis aims to help establish a complementary funding mechanism for health services in the context of the current socioeconomic crisis in the emerging Palestinian State. It focuses on the design of an efficient and equitable cost-recovery mechanism for primary health care services, based on the value of improving the quality of care from the patients¿ perspective. The study makes use of the contingent valuation method to assess the value, for the patients, of improving the quality of care, by eliciting patients¿ willingness to pay values for different quality improvements. A contingent valuation questionnaire was designed based on a decomposed valuation scenario and the payment card elicitation technique, with user-based financial contributions at the point of consumption being the payment vehicle. The elicited values were used to inform decision-makers about the highest extra user fee patients would be willing to pay to benefit from specified improvements in the quality of care.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This Thesis aims to help establish a complementary funding mechanism for health services in the context of the current socioeconomic crisis in the emerging Palestinian State. It focuses on the design of an efficient and equitable cost-recovery mechanism for primary health care services, based on the value of improving the quality of care from the patients¿ perspective. The study makes use of the contingent valuation method to assess the value, for the patients, of improving the quality of care, by eliciting patients¿ willingness to pay values for different quality improvements. A contingent valuation questionnaire was designed based on a decomposed valuation scenario and the payment card elicitation technique, with user-based financial contributions at the point of consumption being the payment vehicle. The elicited values were used to inform decision-makers about the highest extra user fee patients would be willing to pay to benefit from specified improvements in the quality of care.

Biographie de l'auteur

Awad MATARIA is a Palestinian pharmacist, with a Masters in Health Systems Analysis and a PhD in Health Economics. He was involved in several regional projects and published in many reputed journals. His research interests include economic evaluation, equity, health care financing, National Health Accounts, and quality of life assessment.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639173600
ISBN 13 
9783639173604
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
124
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