Observational studyHealth services research2017
A Longitudinal Investigation of Willingness to Pay for Health Insurance in Germany.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- An Examination of Consistency in the Incremental Approach to Willingness to Pay: Evidence Using Societal Values for NHS Dental Services.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2021Trial
- Determinants of willingness to pay for health insurance in later stages of the Covid-19 pandemic: findings based on the general adult population in Germany.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Willingness to Pay for National Health Insurance: A Contingent Valuation Study Among Patients Visiting Public Hospitals in Melaka, Malaysia.Applied health economics and health policy · 2022Article
- Longitudinal changes and determinants of parental willingness to pay for the prevention of childhood overweight and obesity.Health economics review · 2020Article
- Determinants of Willingness to Pay for Health Insurance in Germany-Results of the Population-Based Health Study of the Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases (LIFE-Adult-Study).Frontiers in public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate factors affecting willingness to pay (WTP) for health insurance of older adults in a longitudinal setting in Germany. DATA SOURCES: Survey data from a cohort study in Saarland, Germany, from 2008-2010 and 2011-2014 (n STUDY
designPanel data were taken at two points from an observational, prospective cohort study. DATA COLLECTION: WTP estimates were derived using a contingent valuation method with a payment card. Participants provided data on sociodemographics, lifestyle factors, morbidity, and health care utilization. PRINCIPAL
findingsFixed effects regression models showed higher individual health care costs to increase WTP, which in particular could be found for members of private health insurance. Changes in income and morbidity did not affect WTP among members of social health insurance, whereas these predictors affected WTP among members of private health insurance.
conclusionsThe fact that individual health care costs affected WTP positively might indicate that demanding (expensive) health care services raises the awareness of the benefits of health insurance. Thus, measures to increase WTP in old age should target at improving transparency of the value of health insurances at the moment when individual health care utilization and corresponding costs are still relatively low.
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