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The paper reports from a study that asked 150 interviewees their willingness to pay (WTP) in increased earmarked taxation for three different health care programmes: a helicopter ambulance service, more heart operations and more hip replacements. Reasons behind the stated WTP were asked for....

Willingness-to-pay studies are increasingly being used in the evaluation of health care programmes. There are, however, methodological issues that need to be resolved before the potential of willingness-to-pay can be fully exploited as a tool for the economic evaluation of health care...

Objectives Our analysis assessed the impact of information on patients' preferences in prescription versus over-the-counter (OTC) delivery systems.Methods A contingent valuation (CV) study was implemented, randomly assigning 534 lay people into the receipt of limited or extended information...

Evidence suggests that previous uses of willingness to pay (WTP) to value close substitutes may have failed to discriminate between the alternatives being evaluated. This paper reports on the application of a new technique for measuring WTP in such contexts. The alternatives evaluated are two...

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