endobj Taking a random sample of patients did not lead to any sample selection bias and also any potential identification problem during the analysis was avoided. Other attribute improvements are: geographical proximity (−0.3%) (significant at the 1% level), waiting time (−0.2%) (significant at the 10% level), staff attitude (−0.2%), seeing the same health professional (−0.3%) (significant at the 5% level), doctor-patient relationship (−0.1%) (significant at the 10% level) and chance of recovery (−0.06%). The independent variables in the model are listed in Table 1. 0000039371 00000 n Patients declared that a travel time of about 23 minutes would be considered as “very close”. Contingent valuation is the most commonly used stated preference technique to assess patients’ preferences [3] through eliciting their WTP. 0000018550 00000 n However, the sex variable was not significant. Rural people were willing to pay more than urban people for those three attributes indicating a less elastic demand for rural but the location variable was not significant. Moreover, the patients expressed negative willing to pay −6.2% for DPRSC (significant at the 5% level) and −1.67 for Chance of Recovery (significant at the 1% level). Accurately assessing consumer perceptions of prices is extremely important. 0`�M��ڦ�4V؀A��'�DD��: �geMj�}v�G�_N狼P����/r'����<=ʯ�R�Q�Z�$��ɴ���T�JM�2�]��04��v�$��oW+Zt�7$�o7镰��z���~��㮦`�ޮ������x��Pu��ڶ�.ٔ� �+ߒn��Y�]_���Hv�6ۮZ�SA��|^ja��A�X�%���B(i~QE ���m���Rc^VH��N� D��ȍ�7.��Ǽ��;뗾@�]P3�K���J ��T�!�������� �����Yr�^8�nD>��Q(^.�W�f$�,z��� )�}]l�c��ԕ/̝���R����I� ���o�4� ���� >+�(� Data were collected in 2011 via face to face interviews in Sylhet, a major city in north-eastern Bangladesh. 0000080329 00000 n Therefore, WTP estimates are sensitive to the price ranges used in the estimation (Hensher, Rose and Greene 2015). © 2020 BioMed Central Ltd unless otherwise stated. 0000054015 00000 n 0000013363 00000 n 1 author. The authors declare that they have no competing interests. User fees play a major role in health care in Bangladesh. However, the practical implications of this paper will give readers an opportunity to observe real patients’ behaviours using different attributes separately and to compare their satisfaction between sectors (public/NGO run centres versus private sector). 0000100597 00000 n 0000063993 00000 n Using stated preference and revealed preference modeling to evaluate prescribing decisions. endstream endobj 161 0 obj <> endobj 162 0 obj <> endobj 163 0 obj <>stream 2004;13:563–73. 2013;382(9910):2104–11. Females had a tendency to state lower WTP values for improvements over the Attitude of the staff (−0.2%), seeing the same health professional (−2%), Doctor-Patient Relationship (−3%) and Chance of Recovery (−8%) (significant at the 5% level) attributes and state higher WTP values for improvements over the Geographical Proximity (2%), Waiting Time (4%), and Drug Availability (4%). Females expressed negative willing to pay for the Staff Attitude (−0.10 BDT), see the same health professional (−1.44 BDT), Doctor-Patient Relationship (−8.39 BDT) and Chance of Recovery (−17.64 BDT; significant at 5% level). Health Econ. 0000101573 00000 n Contingent valuation (CV) is used to estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) of consumers for specific attributes to improve the quality of health care they received in three hospitals in Bangladesh. BMC Health Serv Res 15, 43 (2015). Faical Akaichi. When WTP questions are “open ended” and the nature of the dependent variables are “continuous with censoring at zero”, the most appropriate estimation technique is limited dependent variable with Tobit model [18]. Ekstrand C, Carpenter TE. We used the iterative bidding game technique to elicit household WTP that involved a … Staff attitude for “bad” was significant at 5% level and “good” was significant at 1% level. … That means WTP decreases if staff attitudes turned from “Very Bad” to “Excellent”. SC contributed to the design of the study, analysis and interpretation of data, manuscript revision. The quality of health care, as well as people’s preferences for health care, has changed in Bangladesh over the past 20 years. Drug availability for “none” was significant at the 1% level. Author information. 1. Patients were willing to pay less than 0.002 for DPRSC (significant at the 5% level) and 0.007 for Chance of Recovery (significant at the 1% level). The willingness to pay for solid waste management services was assessed in semi-rural towns to determine the factors influencing it. 0000004920 00000 n This was perceived as “long” or “very long” by 61% of total patients. 0000100471 00000 n By using this website, you agree to our Assessing willingness to pay for health care quality improvements. 0000012520 00000 n Heidelberg: Springer; 2003. The objective of this study is to analyze the socioeconomic and demographic factors that are related to the willingness to pay (WTP) for cancer prevention. These are: a closer doctor-patient relationship, increased drug availability and increased chances of recovery. 4, No. Willingness to pay values are calculated as the ratios of two parameters, with the price parameter in the denominator. The study took place at Akuapem North District in Ghana. These results are significant at the 1% level and at the 5% level respectively. Moreover, patients living in rural areas expressed a positive willing to pay for waiting time (0.96 BDT) and same health professional (0.90 BDT). Only one-fourth of the patients (22.6%) were always examined by the same doctor; about 6% of the patients rarely meet, and about 7% have never met the same doctor in the hospital. E-mail address: dila.ikiz@wsu.edu. 0000092911 00000 n In general, patients receiving health care from private hospitals were willing to pay more to improve the doctor patient relationship (30.008; p < 0.05) and chances of recovery attributes (22.70), and less for geographical proximity (−2.63), waiting time (−16.24; p < 0.05), staff attitude (−11.76; p < 0.05), see the same health professional (−15.91; p < 0.05), and drug availability (−17.35) attributes, compared to those attending governmental facilities. statement and Article  Mitchell R, Carson R. Using surveys to value public goods: the contingent valuation method. 1998;37:219–28. 2004;23:1285–311. Lancet. The marginal effects are presented in Table 7 [20]. The result for “long” was significant at the 1% level. 148 67 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-015-0678-6. Tobit regression analysis for limited dependent variables [16] examined the association between stated WTP values and patients’ demographic, socioeconomic characteristics. trailer Patients seeking care for acute problems were willing to pay more than chronic patients for those three attributes although there were no significant differences between acute and chronic patients for the rest of the attributes. 0000099685 00000 n Learning more from Tobit coefficients: extending a comparative analysis of political protest. Department of Economics, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet, 3114, Bangladesh, Australian Digital Futures Institute (ADFI), University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, 4350, Australia, Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development, University of Southern Queensland, Springfield, QLD, 4300, Australia, School of Commerce, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, 4350, Australia, Research Associate, Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Durban, South Africa, You can also search for this author in 2000;19:173–210. Acute patients expressed a positive willing to pay for geographical proximity (−3.34 BDT), seeing the same health professional (−2.11 BDT), doctor-patient relationship (−6.75 BDT), drug availability (−9.27 BDT) and chance of recovery (−4.90 BDT). In marginal effects for geographical proximity, results suggest that the probability that a patient living “very far” from a hospital would be willing to pay in order to have a “very close” hospital, was 39% greater than that of a patient living “very close” or “close” to a hospital, and this result was significant at the 1% level. The first two results were significant at a 1% level and the latter was significant at the 5% level. 0000100039 00000 n Tobin J. Estimation of relationships for limited dependent variables. However, social skills training for doctors is often neglected in the health curriculum in Bangladesh. 2009;18:951–76. Cookies policy. Determining the sizes of these parking areas, … “None” and “some” were respectively 99.61 and 32.68 BDT. 0000013200 00000 n 0000005023 00000 n However, given widespread poverty, only 52% of ill people visit hospital annually and only 21% of ill people visited hospital more than three times in a year [2]. 214 0 obj <>stream Higher educated patients were willing to pay more than lower educated patients to benefit from improvements over: geographical proximity (5%), waiting time (1%) (significant at the 10% level), staff attitude (0.09%) and seeing the same health professional (0.3%) attributes. The objectives of this study On the other hand, females were willing to pay less than males to benefit from improvements over the staff attitude (−0.24), see the same health professional (−3.34), doctor-patient relationship (−14.34) and chance of recovery (−33.96) attributes. Patients feeling they were treated “badly” and “good” by the staff of the hospital expressed a negative willing to pay −7.68 BDT (significant at the 5% level) and −9.66 BDT respectively. Contingent valuation using willingness to pay (WTP) is one of the methods available for assessing the value of a new technology or treatment for a disease in monetary terms. Enumerators waited outside the doctor’s office for the randomly assigned patient to exit. Assessing consumers’ preferences and willingness to pay for novel sliced packed fresh pears: A latent class approach. 0000101197 00000 n Partial tobit regression and corresponding marginal effects analysis were used to analyze the data and obtain WTP estimates. No inducement, financial or otherwise, was offered. ken.willis@ncl.ac.uk; School of Architecture and Planning, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. 0000011635 00000 n Moreover, drug availability for “none” and “some”, patients were willing to pay 56.03 and 19.84 BDT respectively; where the former was significant at the 1% level. 19, No. CV can measure the value that consumers place on certain aspects or attributes of health care services [6]. Finally, individual demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, including, gender, age, education (number of formal schooling years completed), marital status, location, employment status and household monthly income were collected. As a divisional city, people from surrounding areas also received health care in Sylhet. However, those who “never” meet the same doctor had a higher probability of stating a positive WTP value, and declared higher WTP values that is 19% greater (significant at the 1% level), in comparison with those who “rare” (−30%) (significant at the 5% level) meet, or have “often” (−5%) meet, the same doctor in the hospital. 0000042669 00000 n Health Policy. 0000008077 00000 n Only 10.3% of patients were able to find all their medicine(s) within in the range of the registration fee or user fee; 26.2% found some and 63.5% did not find any of their medicine. 1999;47:97–123. The first two results were significant at the 1% level and the “average” was significant at 10% level. Donaldson C, Jones AM, Mapp TJ, Olson JA. Willingness to pay (WTP) is the maximum amount a customer is willing to pay for your product or service. On the other hand, they were willing to pay less than the patients living in urban areas to benefit from improvements over all other attributes: geographical proximity (−6%), staff attitude (−40%), doctor-patient relationship (−5%), drug availability (−5%) and chance of recovery (−3%). �~Ę� Females also expressed positive willingness to pay for Geographical Proximity (1.17 BDT), Waiting Time (2.52 BDT), and Drug Availability (13.11 BDT). Since the 1990s’, private sector health care facilities have experienced rapid growth and currently the private … Using a tobit regression model to analyse risk factors for foot-pad dermatitis in commercially grown broilers. This was expected. Search for more papers by this author. Further research is needed to verify the existence of such inter-attribute dependence. Patients were willing to pay −1.05 BDT for doctor-patient relationship (DPRSC) to get sufficient information from the doctor. All “zero” values given by patients were included in the analysis. Residents' willingness to pay for community ur-ban forest preservation was assessed using a survey ques-tionnaire mailed to 3,009 households in the city of Mandeville, a suburb of New … Higher income earners were willing to pay more than lower income earners to benefit from improvements over all seven quality attributes: geographical proximity (0.00001), waiting time (0.0002), staff attitude (0.0002), see the same health professional (0.0008; p < 0.01), doctor-patient relationship (0.002; p < 0.01), drug availability (0.002; p < 0.01) and chance of recovery (0.002; p < 0.01). Scottish Agricultural College (SAC), King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, United Kingdom (corresponding author: phone: +44 (0131) 535‐4217; fax: +44 (0131) 667 2601; e‐mail: Faical.Akaichi@sac.ac.uk). 0000101677 00000 n Assessing willingness to pay for improved sanitation. More than 100 new private clinics and hospitals and 200 new diagnostic centres open every year [1]. Patients living “far” or at an “average” distance from the center were willing to pay, respectively, 18.87 and 10.73 BDT more at every consultation to have a “very close” hospital, where the former was significant at the 1% level and the latter was significant at the 5% level. Patients were randomly selected amongst patients seeking care in three: MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital, Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College & Hospital and Women’s Medical College & Hospital. Contingent valuation (CV) is a survey-based approach for determining the benefits and willingness to pay (WTP) for programmes or products including healthcare programmes and products. Patients who did not find any of their prescribed medications in the hospital were willing to pay more than those who found “some” or “all” of their medications. This makes willingness to pay a crucial factor when finding the best price to sell a product at, for both the seller and buyer. Ramsey JB. 0000099400 00000 n 0000007357 00000 n 2011;1:4–11. BMC Health Services Research 0000006187 00000 n World Health Statistics 2011: How does Bangladesh compare with other South-East Asian countries? Facing the increasing cost of health services and rising demand for health services, policy makers are interested in measuring the passive use value of health care services. Google Scholar. Soc Sci Med. A CV questionnaire was designed to assess consumers’ valuation of improving the quality of hospital services. 0000029008 00000 n A stated preference approach to assessing health care-quality improvements in Palestine: from theoretical validity to policy implications. Patients meeting the same doctor “Rare” and “Often” at the hospital expressed a negative willing to pay −12.62 BDT (significant at the 1% level) and −2.64 BDT respectively. Background Contingent valuation (CV) is used to estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) of consumers for specific attributes to improve the quality of health care they received in three hospitals in Bangladesh. ; The contingent valuation method, an economic survey technique, was used. Firstly, seven partial Tobit regressions corresponding to seven different attributes were analyzed to estimate the “beta” coefficients which explain expected willingness to pay (WTP) for each attribute and to show how WTP varies with socio-economic characteristics. The seven partial WTP valuation questions with hypothesis. Google Scholar. Econometrica. Springer Nature. Article  Free Online Library: Assessing the willingness of the public to pay to conserve urban green space: the Hangzhou City, China, case. Patients were also willing to pay in order to be “always” able to meet the same doctor in the hospital. Contingent valuation: controversies and evidence. 0000101768 00000 n Moreover, elderly patients expressed a positive willing to pay for Drug Availability of 0.03 BDT and expressed a negative willing to pay for geographical proximity of −0.21 BDT (significant at the 1% level), waiting time −0.12 BDT (significant at the 10% level), staff attitude −0.08 BDT, seeing the same health professional −0.16 BDT (significant at the 5% level), doctor-patient relationship −0.34 BDT (significant at the 10% level) and chance of recovery −0.13 BDT. Mcdaniels T, Roessler C. Multiattribute elicitation of wilderness preservation benefits: a contingent method. Provided some basic information to policy makers about the research study to get their cooperation at %. And hospitals and 200 new diagnostic centres open every year [ 1 ] good ” was significant the! 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Contingent valuation is the most commonly used stated preference technique to assess patients’ preferences [3] through eliciting their WTP. 0000018550 00000 n However, the sex variable was not significant. Rural people were willing to pay more than urban people for those three attributes indicating a less elastic demand for rural but the location variable was not significant. Moreover, the patients expressed negative willing to pay −6.2% for DPRSC (significant at the 5% level) and −1.67 for Chance of Recovery (significant at the 1% level). Accurately assessing consumer perceptions of prices is extremely important. 0`�M��ڦ�4V؀A��'�DD��: �geMj�}v�G�_N狼P����/r'����<=ʯ�R�Q�Z�$��ɴ���T�JM�2�]��04��v�$��oW+Zt�7$�o7镰��z���~��㮦`�ޮ������x��Pu��ڶ�.ٔ� �+ߒn��Y�]_���Hv�6ۮZ�SA��|^ja��A�X�%���B(i~QE ���m���Rc^VH��N� D��ȍ�7.��Ǽ��;뗾@�]P3�K���J ��T�!�������� �����Yr�^8�nD>��Q(^.�W�f$�,z��� )�}]l�c��ԕ/̝���R����I� ���o�4� ���� >+�(� Data were collected in 2011 via face to face interviews in Sylhet, a major city in north-eastern Bangladesh. 0000080329 00000 n Therefore, WTP estimates are sensitive to the price ranges used in the estimation (Hensher, Rose and Greene 2015). © 2020 BioMed Central Ltd unless otherwise stated. 0000054015 00000 n 0000013363 00000 n 1 author. The authors declare that they have no competing interests. User fees play a major role in health care in Bangladesh. However, the practical implications of this paper will give readers an opportunity to observe real patients’ behaviours using different attributes separately and to compare their satisfaction between sectors (public/NGO run centres versus private sector). 0000100597 00000 n 0000063993 00000 n Using stated preference and revealed preference modeling to evaluate prescribing decisions. endstream endobj 161 0 obj <> endobj 162 0 obj <> endobj 163 0 obj <>stream 2004;13:563–73. 2013;382(9910):2104–11. Females had a tendency to state lower WTP values for improvements over the Attitude of the staff (−0.2%), seeing the same health professional (−2%), Doctor-Patient Relationship (−3%) and Chance of Recovery (−8%) (significant at the 5% level) attributes and state higher WTP values for improvements over the Geographical Proximity (2%), Waiting Time (4%), and Drug Availability (4%). Females expressed negative willing to pay for the Staff Attitude (−0.10 BDT), see the same health professional (−1.44 BDT), Doctor-Patient Relationship (−8.39 BDT) and Chance of Recovery (−17.64 BDT; significant at 5% level). Health Econ. 0000101573 00000 n Contingent valuation (CV) is used to estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) of consumers for specific attributes to improve the quality of health care they received in three hospitals in Bangladesh. BMC Health Serv Res 15, 43 (2015). Faical Akaichi. When WTP questions are “open ended” and the nature of the dependent variables are “continuous with censoring at zero”, the most appropriate estimation technique is limited dependent variable with Tobit model [18]. Ekstrand C, Carpenter TE. We used the iterative bidding game technique to elicit household WTP that involved a … Staff attitude for “bad” was significant at 5% level and “good” was significant at 1% level. … That means WTP decreases if staff attitudes turned from “Very Bad” to “Excellent”. SC contributed to the design of the study, analysis and interpretation of data, manuscript revision. The quality of health care, as well as people’s preferences for health care, has changed in Bangladesh over the past 20 years. Drug availability for “none” was significant at the 1% level. Author information. 1. Patients were willing to pay less than 0.002 for DPRSC (significant at the 5% level) and 0.007 for Chance of Recovery (significant at the 1% level). The willingness to pay for solid waste management services was assessed in semi-rural towns to determine the factors influencing it. 0000004920 00000 n This was perceived as “long” or “very long” by 61% of total patients. 0000100471 00000 n By using this website, you agree to our Assessing willingness to pay for health care quality improvements. 0000012520 00000 n Heidelberg: Springer; 2003. The objective of this study is to analyze the socioeconomic and demographic factors that are related to the willingness to pay (WTP) for cancer prevention. These are: a closer doctor-patient relationship, increased drug availability and increased chances of recovery. 4, No. Willingness to pay values are calculated as the ratios of two parameters, with the price parameter in the denominator. The study took place at Akuapem North District in Ghana. These results are significant at the 1% level and at the 5% level respectively. Moreover, patients living in rural areas expressed a positive willing to pay for waiting time (0.96 BDT) and same health professional (0.90 BDT). Only one-fourth of the patients (22.6%) were always examined by the same doctor; about 6% of the patients rarely meet, and about 7% have never met the same doctor in the hospital. E-mail address: dila.ikiz@wsu.edu. 0000092911 00000 n In general, patients receiving health care from private hospitals were willing to pay more to improve the doctor patient relationship (30.008; p < 0.05) and chances of recovery attributes (22.70), and less for geographical proximity (−2.63), waiting time (−16.24; p < 0.05), staff attitude (−11.76; p < 0.05), see the same health professional (−15.91; p < 0.05), and drug availability (−17.35) attributes, compared to those attending governmental facilities. statement and Article  Mitchell R, Carson R. Using surveys to value public goods: the contingent valuation method. 1998;37:219–28. 2004;23:1285–311. Lancet. The marginal effects are presented in Table 7 [20]. The result for “long” was significant at the 1% level. 148 67 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-015-0678-6. Tobit regression analysis for limited dependent variables [16] examined the association between stated WTP values and patients’ demographic, socioeconomic characteristics. trailer Patients seeking care for acute problems were willing to pay more than chronic patients for those three attributes although there were no significant differences between acute and chronic patients for the rest of the attributes. 0000099685 00000 n Learning more from Tobit coefficients: extending a comparative analysis of political protest. Department of Economics, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet, 3114, Bangladesh, Australian Digital Futures Institute (ADFI), University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, 4350, Australia, Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development, University of Southern Queensland, Springfield, QLD, 4300, Australia, School of Commerce, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, 4350, Australia, Research Associate, Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Durban, South Africa, You can also search for this author in 2000;19:173–210. Acute patients expressed a positive willing to pay for geographical proximity (−3.34 BDT), seeing the same health professional (−2.11 BDT), doctor-patient relationship (−6.75 BDT), drug availability (−9.27 BDT) and chance of recovery (−4.90 BDT). In marginal effects for geographical proximity, results suggest that the probability that a patient living “very far” from a hospital would be willing to pay in order to have a “very close” hospital, was 39% greater than that of a patient living “very close” or “close” to a hospital, and this result was significant at the 1% level. The first two results were significant at a 1% level and the latter was significant at the 5% level. 0000100039 00000 n Tobin J. Estimation of relationships for limited dependent variables. However, social skills training for doctors is often neglected in the health curriculum in Bangladesh. 2009;18:951–76. Cookies policy. Determining the sizes of these parking areas, … “None” and “some” were respectively 99.61 and 32.68 BDT. 0000013200 00000 n 0000005023 00000 n However, given widespread poverty, only 52% of ill people visit hospital annually and only 21% of ill people visited hospital more than three times in a year [2]. 214 0 obj <>stream Higher educated patients were willing to pay more than lower educated patients to benefit from improvements over: geographical proximity (5%), waiting time (1%) (significant at the 10% level), staff attitude (0.09%) and seeing the same health professional (0.3%) attributes. The objectives of this study On the other hand, females were willing to pay less than males to benefit from improvements over the staff attitude (−0.24), see the same health professional (−3.34), doctor-patient relationship (−14.34) and chance of recovery (−33.96) attributes. Patients feeling they were treated “badly” and “good” by the staff of the hospital expressed a negative willing to pay −7.68 BDT (significant at the 5% level) and −9.66 BDT respectively. Contingent valuation using willingness to pay (WTP) is one of the methods available for assessing the value of a new technology or treatment for a disease in monetary terms. Enumerators waited outside the doctor’s office for the randomly assigned patient to exit. Assessing consumers’ preferences and willingness to pay for novel sliced packed fresh pears: A latent class approach. 0000101197 00000 n Partial tobit regression and corresponding marginal effects analysis were used to analyze the data and obtain WTP estimates. No inducement, financial or otherwise, was offered. ken.willis@ncl.ac.uk; School of Architecture and Planning, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. 0000011635 00000 n Moreover, drug availability for “none” and “some”, patients were willing to pay 56.03 and 19.84 BDT respectively; where the former was significant at the 1% level. 19, No. CV can measure the value that consumers place on certain aspects or attributes of health care services [6]. Finally, individual demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, including, gender, age, education (number of formal schooling years completed), marital status, location, employment status and household monthly income were collected. As a divisional city, people from surrounding areas also received health care in Sylhet. However, those who “never” meet the same doctor had a higher probability of stating a positive WTP value, and declared higher WTP values that is 19% greater (significant at the 1% level), in comparison with those who “rare” (−30%) (significant at the 5% level) meet, or have “often” (−5%) meet, the same doctor in the hospital. 0000042669 00000 n Health Policy. 0000008077 00000 n Only 10.3% of patients were able to find all their medicine(s) within in the range of the registration fee or user fee; 26.2% found some and 63.5% did not find any of their medicine. 1999;47:97–123. The first two results were significant at the 1% level and the “average” was significant at 10% level. Donaldson C, Jones AM, Mapp TJ, Olson JA. Willingness to pay (WTP) is the maximum amount a customer is willing to pay for your product or service. On the other hand, they were willing to pay less than the patients living in urban areas to benefit from improvements over all other attributes: geographical proximity (−6%), staff attitude (−40%), doctor-patient relationship (−5%), drug availability (−5%) and chance of recovery (−3%). �~Ę� Females also expressed positive willingness to pay for Geographical Proximity (1.17 BDT), Waiting Time (2.52 BDT), and Drug Availability (13.11 BDT). Since the 1990s’, private sector health care facilities have experienced rapid growth and currently the private … Using a tobit regression model to analyse risk factors for foot-pad dermatitis in commercially grown broilers. This was expected. Search for more papers by this author. Further research is needed to verify the existence of such inter-attribute dependence. Patients were willing to pay −1.05 BDT for doctor-patient relationship (DPRSC) to get sufficient information from the doctor. All “zero” values given by patients were included in the analysis. Residents' willingness to pay for community ur-ban forest preservation was assessed using a survey ques-tionnaire mailed to 3,009 households in the city of Mandeville, a suburb of New … Higher income earners were willing to pay more than lower income earners to benefit from improvements over all seven quality attributes: geographical proximity (0.00001), waiting time (0.0002), staff attitude (0.0002), see the same health professional (0.0008; p < 0.01), doctor-patient relationship (0.002; p < 0.01), drug availability (0.002; p < 0.01) and chance of recovery (0.002; p < 0.01). Scottish Agricultural College (SAC), King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, United Kingdom (corresponding author: phone: +44 (0131) 535‐4217; fax: +44 (0131) 667 2601; e‐mail: Faical.Akaichi@sac.ac.uk). 0000101677 00000 n Assessing willingness to pay for improved sanitation. More than 100 new private clinics and hospitals and 200 new diagnostic centres open every year [1]. Patients living “far” or at an “average” distance from the center were willing to pay, respectively, 18.87 and 10.73 BDT more at every consultation to have a “very close” hospital, where the former was significant at the 1% level and the latter was significant at the 5% level. Patients were randomly selected amongst patients seeking care in three: MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital, Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College & Hospital and Women’s Medical College & Hospital. Contingent valuation (CV) is a survey-based approach for determining the benefits and willingness to pay (WTP) for programmes or products including healthcare programmes and products. Patients who did not find any of their prescribed medications in the hospital were willing to pay more than those who found “some” or “all” of their medications. This makes willingness to pay a crucial factor when finding the best price to sell a product at, for both the seller and buyer. Ramsey JB. 0000099400 00000 n 0000007357 00000 n 2011;1:4–11. BMC Health Services Research 0000006187 00000 n World Health Statistics 2011: How does Bangladesh compare with other South-East Asian countries? Facing the increasing cost of health services and rising demand for health services, policy makers are interested in measuring the passive use value of health care services. Google Scholar. Soc Sci Med. A CV questionnaire was designed to assess consumers’ valuation of improving the quality of hospital services. 0000029008 00000 n A stated preference approach to assessing health care-quality improvements in Palestine: from theoretical validity to policy implications. Patients meeting the same doctor “Rare” and “Often” at the hospital expressed a negative willing to pay −12.62 BDT (significant at the 1% level) and −2.64 BDT respectively. Background Contingent valuation (CV) is used to estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) of consumers for specific attributes to improve the quality of health care they received in three hospitals in Bangladesh. ; The contingent valuation method, an economic survey technique, was used. Firstly, seven partial Tobit regressions corresponding to seven different attributes were analyzed to estimate the “beta” coefficients which explain expected willingness to pay (WTP) for each attribute and to show how WTP varies with socio-economic characteristics. The seven partial WTP valuation questions with hypothesis. Google Scholar. Econometrica. Springer Nature. Article  Free Online Library: Assessing the willingness of the public to pay to conserve urban green space: the Hangzhou City, China, case. Patients were also willing to pay in order to be “always” able to meet the same doctor in the hospital. Contingent valuation: controversies and evidence. 0000101768 00000 n Moreover, elderly patients expressed a positive willing to pay for Drug Availability of 0.03 BDT and expressed a negative willing to pay for geographical proximity of −0.21 BDT (significant at the 1% level), waiting time −0.12 BDT (significant at the 10% level), staff attitude −0.08 BDT, seeing the same health professional −0.16 BDT (significant at the 5% level), doctor-patient relationship −0.34 BDT (significant at the 10% level) and chance of recovery −0.13 BDT. Mcdaniels T, Roessler C. Multiattribute elicitation of wilderness preservation benefits: a contingent method. Provided some basic information to policy makers about the research study to get their cooperation at %. And hospitals and 200 new diagnostic centres open every year [ 1 ] good ” was significant the! 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Other attribute improvements are: geographical proximity (−0.3%) (significant at the 1% level), waiting time (−0.2%) (significant at the 10% level), staff attitude (−0.2%), seeing the same health professional (−0.3%) (significant at the 5% level), doctor-patient relationship (−0.1%) (significant at the 10% level) and chance of recovery (−0.06%). The independent variables in the model are listed in Table 1. 0000039371 00000 n Patients declared that a travel time of about 23 minutes would be considered as “very close”. Contingent valuation is the most commonly used stated preference technique to assess patients’ preferences [3] through eliciting their WTP. 0000018550 00000 n However, the sex variable was not significant. Rural people were willing to pay more than urban people for those three attributes indicating a less elastic demand for rural but the location variable was not significant. Moreover, the patients expressed negative willing to pay −6.2% for DPRSC (significant at the 5% level) and −1.67 for Chance of Recovery (significant at the 1% level). Accurately assessing consumer perceptions of prices is extremely important. 0`�M��ڦ�4V؀A��'�DD��: �geMj�}v�G�_N狼P����/r'����<=ʯ�R�Q�Z�$��ɴ���T�JM�2�]��04��v�$��oW+Zt�7$�o7镰��z���~��㮦`�ޮ������x��Pu��ڶ�.ٔ� �+ߒn��Y�]_���Hv�6ۮZ�SA��|^ja��A�X�%���B(i~QE ���m���Rc^VH��N� D��ȍ�7.��Ǽ��;뗾@�]P3�K���J ��T�!�������� �����Yr�^8�nD>��Q(^.�W�f$�,z��� )�}]l�c��ԕ/̝���R����I� ���o�4� ���� >+�(� Data were collected in 2011 via face to face interviews in Sylhet, a major city in north-eastern Bangladesh. 0000080329 00000 n Therefore, WTP estimates are sensitive to the price ranges used in the estimation (Hensher, Rose and Greene 2015). © 2020 BioMed Central Ltd unless otherwise stated. 0000054015 00000 n 0000013363 00000 n 1 author. The authors declare that they have no competing interests. User fees play a major role in health care in Bangladesh. However, the practical implications of this paper will give readers an opportunity to observe real patients’ behaviours using different attributes separately and to compare their satisfaction between sectors (public/NGO run centres versus private sector). 0000100597 00000 n 0000063993 00000 n Using stated preference and revealed preference modeling to evaluate prescribing decisions. endstream endobj 161 0 obj <> endobj 162 0 obj <> endobj 163 0 obj <>stream 2004;13:563–73. 2013;382(9910):2104–11. Females had a tendency to state lower WTP values for improvements over the Attitude of the staff (−0.2%), seeing the same health professional (−2%), Doctor-Patient Relationship (−3%) and Chance of Recovery (−8%) (significant at the 5% level) attributes and state higher WTP values for improvements over the Geographical Proximity (2%), Waiting Time (4%), and Drug Availability (4%). Females expressed negative willing to pay for the Staff Attitude (−0.10 BDT), see the same health professional (−1.44 BDT), Doctor-Patient Relationship (−8.39 BDT) and Chance of Recovery (−17.64 BDT; significant at 5% level). Health Econ. 0000101573 00000 n Contingent valuation (CV) is used to estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) of consumers for specific attributes to improve the quality of health care they received in three hospitals in Bangladesh. BMC Health Serv Res 15, 43 (2015). Faical Akaichi. When WTP questions are “open ended” and the nature of the dependent variables are “continuous with censoring at zero”, the most appropriate estimation technique is limited dependent variable with Tobit model [18]. Ekstrand C, Carpenter TE. We used the iterative bidding game technique to elicit household WTP that involved a … Staff attitude for “bad” was significant at 5% level and “good” was significant at 1% level. … That means WTP decreases if staff attitudes turned from “Very Bad” to “Excellent”. SC contributed to the design of the study, analysis and interpretation of data, manuscript revision. The quality of health care, as well as people’s preferences for health care, has changed in Bangladesh over the past 20 years. Drug availability for “none” was significant at the 1% level. Author information. 1. Patients were willing to pay less than 0.002 for DPRSC (significant at the 5% level) and 0.007 for Chance of Recovery (significant at the 1% level). The willingness to pay for solid waste management services was assessed in semi-rural towns to determine the factors influencing it. 0000004920 00000 n This was perceived as “long” or “very long” by 61% of total patients. 0000100471 00000 n By using this website, you agree to our Assessing willingness to pay for health care quality improvements. 0000012520 00000 n Heidelberg: Springer; 2003. The objective of this study is to analyze the socioeconomic and demographic factors that are related to the willingness to pay (WTP) for cancer prevention. These are: a closer doctor-patient relationship, increased drug availability and increased chances of recovery. 4, No. Willingness to pay values are calculated as the ratios of two parameters, with the price parameter in the denominator. The study took place at Akuapem North District in Ghana. These results are significant at the 1% level and at the 5% level respectively. Moreover, patients living in rural areas expressed a positive willing to pay for waiting time (0.96 BDT) and same health professional (0.90 BDT). Only one-fourth of the patients (22.6%) were always examined by the same doctor; about 6% of the patients rarely meet, and about 7% have never met the same doctor in the hospital. E-mail address: dila.ikiz@wsu.edu. 0000092911 00000 n In general, patients receiving health care from private hospitals were willing to pay more to improve the doctor patient relationship (30.008; p < 0.05) and chances of recovery attributes (22.70), and less for geographical proximity (−2.63), waiting time (−16.24; p < 0.05), staff attitude (−11.76; p < 0.05), see the same health professional (−15.91; p < 0.05), and drug availability (−17.35) attributes, compared to those attending governmental facilities. statement and Article  Mitchell R, Carson R. Using surveys to value public goods: the contingent valuation method. 1998;37:219–28. 2004;23:1285–311. Lancet. The marginal effects are presented in Table 7 [20]. The result for “long” was significant at the 1% level. 148 67 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-015-0678-6. Tobit regression analysis for limited dependent variables [16] examined the association between stated WTP values and patients’ demographic, socioeconomic characteristics. trailer Patients seeking care for acute problems were willing to pay more than chronic patients for those three attributes although there were no significant differences between acute and chronic patients for the rest of the attributes. 0000099685 00000 n Learning more from Tobit coefficients: extending a comparative analysis of political protest. Department of Economics, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet, 3114, Bangladesh, Australian Digital Futures Institute (ADFI), University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, 4350, Australia, Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development, University of Southern Queensland, Springfield, QLD, 4300, Australia, School of Commerce, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, 4350, Australia, Research Associate, Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Durban, South Africa, You can also search for this author in 2000;19:173–210. Acute patients expressed a positive willing to pay for geographical proximity (−3.34 BDT), seeing the same health professional (−2.11 BDT), doctor-patient relationship (−6.75 BDT), drug availability (−9.27 BDT) and chance of recovery (−4.90 BDT). In marginal effects for geographical proximity, results suggest that the probability that a patient living “very far” from a hospital would be willing to pay in order to have a “very close” hospital, was 39% greater than that of a patient living “very close” or “close” to a hospital, and this result was significant at the 1% level. The first two results were significant at a 1% level and the latter was significant at the 5% level. 0000100039 00000 n Tobin J. Estimation of relationships for limited dependent variables. However, social skills training for doctors is often neglected in the health curriculum in Bangladesh. 2009;18:951–76. Cookies policy. Determining the sizes of these parking areas, … “None” and “some” were respectively 99.61 and 32.68 BDT. 0000013200 00000 n 0000005023 00000 n However, given widespread poverty, only 52% of ill people visit hospital annually and only 21% of ill people visited hospital more than three times in a year [2]. 214 0 obj <>stream Higher educated patients were willing to pay more than lower educated patients to benefit from improvements over: geographical proximity (5%), waiting time (1%) (significant at the 10% level), staff attitude (0.09%) and seeing the same health professional (0.3%) attributes. The objectives of this study On the other hand, females were willing to pay less than males to benefit from improvements over the staff attitude (−0.24), see the same health professional (−3.34), doctor-patient relationship (−14.34) and chance of recovery (−33.96) attributes. Patients feeling they were treated “badly” and “good” by the staff of the hospital expressed a negative willing to pay −7.68 BDT (significant at the 5% level) and −9.66 BDT respectively. Contingent valuation using willingness to pay (WTP) is one of the methods available for assessing the value of a new technology or treatment for a disease in monetary terms. Enumerators waited outside the doctor’s office for the randomly assigned patient to exit. Assessing consumers’ preferences and willingness to pay for novel sliced packed fresh pears: A latent class approach. 0000101197 00000 n Partial tobit regression and corresponding marginal effects analysis were used to analyze the data and obtain WTP estimates. No inducement, financial or otherwise, was offered. ken.willis@ncl.ac.uk; School of Architecture and Planning, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. 0000011635 00000 n Moreover, drug availability for “none” and “some”, patients were willing to pay 56.03 and 19.84 BDT respectively; where the former was significant at the 1% level. 19, No. CV can measure the value that consumers place on certain aspects or attributes of health care services [6]. Finally, individual demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, including, gender, age, education (number of formal schooling years completed), marital status, location, employment status and household monthly income were collected. As a divisional city, people from surrounding areas also received health care in Sylhet. However, those who “never” meet the same doctor had a higher probability of stating a positive WTP value, and declared higher WTP values that is 19% greater (significant at the 1% level), in comparison with those who “rare” (−30%) (significant at the 5% level) meet, or have “often” (−5%) meet, the same doctor in the hospital. 0000042669 00000 n Health Policy. 0000008077 00000 n Only 10.3% of patients were able to find all their medicine(s) within in the range of the registration fee or user fee; 26.2% found some and 63.5% did not find any of their medicine. 1999;47:97–123. The first two results were significant at the 1% level and the “average” was significant at 10% level. Donaldson C, Jones AM, Mapp TJ, Olson JA. Willingness to pay (WTP) is the maximum amount a customer is willing to pay for your product or service. On the other hand, they were willing to pay less than the patients living in urban areas to benefit from improvements over all other attributes: geographical proximity (−6%), staff attitude (−40%), doctor-patient relationship (−5%), drug availability (−5%) and chance of recovery (−3%). �~Ę� Females also expressed positive willingness to pay for Geographical Proximity (1.17 BDT), Waiting Time (2.52 BDT), and Drug Availability (13.11 BDT). Since the 1990s’, private sector health care facilities have experienced rapid growth and currently the private … Using a tobit regression model to analyse risk factors for foot-pad dermatitis in commercially grown broilers. This was expected. Search for more papers by this author. Further research is needed to verify the existence of such inter-attribute dependence. Patients were willing to pay −1.05 BDT for doctor-patient relationship (DPRSC) to get sufficient information from the doctor. All “zero” values given by patients were included in the analysis. Residents' willingness to pay for community ur-ban forest preservation was assessed using a survey ques-tionnaire mailed to 3,009 households in the city of Mandeville, a suburb of New … Higher income earners were willing to pay more than lower income earners to benefit from improvements over all seven quality attributes: geographical proximity (0.00001), waiting time (0.0002), staff attitude (0.0002), see the same health professional (0.0008; p < 0.01), doctor-patient relationship (0.002; p < 0.01), drug availability (0.002; p < 0.01) and chance of recovery (0.002; p < 0.01). Scottish Agricultural College (SAC), King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, United Kingdom (corresponding author: phone: +44 (0131) 535‐4217; fax: +44 (0131) 667 2601; e‐mail: Faical.Akaichi@sac.ac.uk). 0000101677 00000 n Assessing willingness to pay for improved sanitation. More than 100 new private clinics and hospitals and 200 new diagnostic centres open every year [1]. Patients living “far” or at an “average” distance from the center were willing to pay, respectively, 18.87 and 10.73 BDT more at every consultation to have a “very close” hospital, where the former was significant at the 1% level and the latter was significant at the 5% level. Patients were randomly selected amongst patients seeking care in three: MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital, Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College & Hospital and Women’s Medical College & Hospital. Contingent valuation (CV) is a survey-based approach for determining the benefits and willingness to pay (WTP) for programmes or products including healthcare programmes and products. Patients who did not find any of their prescribed medications in the hospital were willing to pay more than those who found “some” or “all” of their medications. This makes willingness to pay a crucial factor when finding the best price to sell a product at, for both the seller and buyer. Ramsey JB. 0000099400 00000 n 0000007357 00000 n 2011;1:4–11. BMC Health Services Research 0000006187 00000 n World Health Statistics 2011: How does Bangladesh compare with other South-East Asian countries? Facing the increasing cost of health services and rising demand for health services, policy makers are interested in measuring the passive use value of health care services. Google Scholar. Soc Sci Med. A CV questionnaire was designed to assess consumers’ valuation of improving the quality of hospital services. 0000029008 00000 n A stated preference approach to assessing health care-quality improvements in Palestine: from theoretical validity to policy implications. Patients meeting the same doctor “Rare” and “Often” at the hospital expressed a negative willing to pay −12.62 BDT (significant at the 1% level) and −2.64 BDT respectively. Background Contingent valuation (CV) is used to estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) of consumers for specific attributes to improve the quality of health care they received in three hospitals in Bangladesh. ; The contingent valuation method, an economic survey technique, was used. Firstly, seven partial Tobit regressions corresponding to seven different attributes were analyzed to estimate the “beta” coefficients which explain expected willingness to pay (WTP) for each attribute and to show how WTP varies with socio-economic characteristics. The seven partial WTP valuation questions with hypothesis. Google Scholar. Econometrica. Springer Nature. Article  Free Online Library: Assessing the willingness of the public to pay to conserve urban green space: the Hangzhou City, China, case. Patients were also willing to pay in order to be “always” able to meet the same doctor in the hospital. Contingent valuation: controversies and evidence. 0000101768 00000 n Moreover, elderly patients expressed a positive willing to pay for Drug Availability of 0.03 BDT and expressed a negative willing to pay for geographical proximity of −0.21 BDT (significant at the 1% level), waiting time −0.12 BDT (significant at the 10% level), staff attitude −0.08 BDT, seeing the same health professional −0.16 BDT (significant at the 5% level), doctor-patient relationship −0.34 BDT (significant at the 10% level) and chance of recovery −0.13 BDT. Mcdaniels T, Roessler C. Multiattribute elicitation of wilderness preservation benefits: a contingent method. Provided some basic information to policy makers about the research study to get their cooperation at %. And hospitals and 200 new diagnostic centres open every year [ 1 ] good ” was significant the! 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