The Contingent Valuation Method in Health Care An Economic Evaluatio
In the future, as our society becomes older and older, an increasing number of people will be confronted with Alzheimer's disease. Some will suffer from the illness themselves, others will see parents, relatives, their spouse or a close friend afflicted b
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Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy
VOLUME 8
Series Editors Peter Zweifel, University of ZUrich, Switzerland H.E. Frech III, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.
The Contingent Valuation Method in Health Care An Economic Evaluation of Alzheimer's Disease By
Sandra Nocera University of Zurich, Switzerland
Harry Telser University of Zurich, Switzerland
and Dario Bonato Cantonal Bank of Zurich, Switzerland
SPRlNGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-1-4613-4805-4 ISBN 978-1-4419-9133-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-9133-1
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Contents
Preface
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List of Abbreviations
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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The contingent valuation method Alzheimer's disease Study objectives Organization of the book
Chapter 2: Study Design
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Economic burden of Alzheimer's disease Program 'care' - helping caregivers Program 'diagnosis' - detecting AD early Program 'research' - search for a cure of AD Financing of the programs
Chapter 3: Elicitation Methods 1. 2. 3.
Continuous contingent valuation format Discrete contingent valuation format Biases in contingent valuation studies 3.1 Yea-saying
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The Contingent Valuation Method in Health Care
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Protest answers 3.2 3.3 Question ordering bias Payment vehicle bias 3.4 Embedding effect 3.5 3.6 Warm glow effect 3.7 Information bias 4. Chosen elicitation techniques Dichotomous choice (DC) format 4.1 Dissonance-minimizing (DM) format 4.2 Payment card (PC) format 4.3 Chapter 4: Estimation Methods
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Estimation methods for the discrete CV (DC and DM) Logistic regression analysis 1.1 1.2 Nonparametric method 2. Estimation methods for payment card (PC) Chapter 5: Data
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Sample structure and data collection Descriptive statistics
Chapter 6: Results
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Program 'care' with taxes 1.1 Data 1.2 Dichotomous choice (DC) format Dissonance minimizing (DM) format 1.3 1.4 Payment card (PC) format 1.5 Overview of the tax financed care program 2. Program 'diagnosis' 2.1 Data 2.2 Dichotomous choice (DC) format 2.3 Dissonance minimizing (DM) format 2.4 Payment card (PC) format 2.5 Overview of insurance financed diagnosis program 3. Program 'research' 3.1 Data 3.2 Dichotomous choice (DC) format 3.3 Dissonance minimizing (DM) format Payment card (PC) format 3.4 3.5 Overview of the research program
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