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Willingness to pay for an early warning system for infectious diseases
- Source :
- The European Journal Of Health Economics, 21, 763-773. Springer-Verlag, The European Journal of Health Economics
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Early warning systems for infectious diseases and foodborne outbreaks are designed with the aim of increasing the health safety of citizens. As a first step to determine whether investing in such a system offers value for money, this study used contingent valuation to estimate people’s willingness to pay for such an early warning system in six European countries. The contingent valuation experiment was conducted through online questionnaires administered in February to March 2018 to cross-sectional, representative samples in the UK, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, and The Netherlands, yielding a total sample size of 3140. Mean willingness to pay for an early warning system was €21.80 (median €10.00) per household per month. Pooled regression results indicate that willingness to pay increased with household income and risk aversion, while they decreased with age. Overall, our results indicate that approximately 80–90% of people would be willing to pay for an increase in health safety in the form of an early warning system for infectious diseases and food-borne outbreaks. However, our results have to be interpreted in light of the usual drawbacks of willingness to pay experiments. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s10198-020-01171-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Cross-country comparison
Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
Communicable Diseases
Disease Outbreaks
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Willingness to pay
SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
Surveys and Questionnaires
Infectious disease outbreaks
Early warning system
Environmental health
medicine
Healthcare Financing
Humans
Contingent valuation
030212 general & internal medicine
Aged
Original Paper
Health economics
I18
Warning system
Risk aversion
030503 health policy & services
Health Policy
Public health
1. No poverty
Middle Aged
Patient Acceptance of Health Care
3. Good health
Europe
H41
Household income
Female
Business
0305 other medical science
Sentinel Surveillance
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16187598
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The European Journal Of Health Economics, 21, 763-773. Springer-Verlag, The European Journal of Health Economics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0cf5a362bfc90d8b33a9b1d3f8c00193