Monetary valuation of informal care: The well-being valuation method

Health Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1227-1244

  Van Den Berg, Bernard ^a,b   Ferrer I Carbonell, Ada ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compensating variation; Economic evaluations; Informal care; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CONTINGENT VALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WELLBEING;

AGED; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; NETHERLANDS; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 35948951151     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1224     Document Type: Article

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