ArticleThe European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care2020
Willingness to pay for an early warning system for infectious diseases.
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- Determinants of willingness to pay for health services: a systematic review of contingent valuation studies.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2022Pooled it
- Sociodemographic and Health-Risk Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Preferences and Willingness to Pay in Singapore: Discrete Choice Experiment.Interactive journal of medical research · 2026Article
- Does timing matter? The role of health information shocks in measuring willingness to pay.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2025Article
- The present value of human life losses associated with COVID-19 and likely productivity losses averted through COVID-19 vaccination in Madagascar.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Jumping the Queue:Willingness to Pay for Faster Access to COVID-19 Vaccines in Seven European Countries.PharmacoEconomics · 2023Article
- 10 Years of AMNOG: What is the Willingness-to-Pay for Pharmaceuticals in Germany?Applied health economics and health policy · 2023Article
- Health utilities and willingness to pay in adult patients with coeliac disease in Hungary.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2023Article
- Surveillance and response strategies for zoonotic diseases: a comprehensive review.Science in One Health · 2023Review
- Willingness to Pay to Improve Quality of Public Healthcare Services in Mauritius.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Estimation of the Impact of Foodborne Salmonellosis on Consumer Well-Being in Hungary.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- The economics of improving global infectious disease surveillance.BMJ global health · 2021Article
- Trust me; I know what I am doing investigating the effect of choice list elicitation and domain-relevant training on preference reversals in decision making for others.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2021Article
- Practicing Corona - Towards a research agenda of health policies.Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2020Review
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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.
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