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-preference study. The estimated costs include defibrillators (including expendables/maintenance), training, hospitalisation/health care …
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This paper examines the role of simplified heuristics in the formation of preferences for public goods. Political scientists have suggested that voters use simplified heuristics based on the positions of familiar parties to infer how a proposed policy will affect them and to cast a vote in line...
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appropriate value for economic evaluation and health technology assessment. …
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For the assessment of value of new therapies in healthcare, Health Technology Assessment (HTA) agencies often review …
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within health economics and transport economics. Several studies have therefore estimated people's WTP for these estimates …
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To decide how much resources to spend on reducing mortality risk, governmental agencies in several countries turn to the value of a statistical life (VSL). VSL has been shown to vary depending on the size of the risk reduction, which indicates that WTP does not increase near-proportional in...
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making priorities in allocation of national public funds in the transport sector and health sector, respectively, in Sweden …
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This paper compares the value per statistical life (VSL) in the context of suicide prevention to that of prevention of traffic fatalities. We conducted a contingent valuation survey with questions on willingness to pay (WTP) in both contexts by administering a web questionnaire to 1038...
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Elements of regulation inherent in most social health insurance systems are a uniform package of benefits and uniform … relationship between age and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for additional options in Swiss social health insurance. Through discrete …
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Health insurance is potentially subject to risk selection, i.e. adverse selection on the part of consumers and cream … skimming on the part of insurers. Adverse selection models predict that competitive health insurers can eschew high … health insurance policies with deductibles in excess of the legal minimum do indeed serve as an instrument of risk selection …
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