Preferences for long-term care services: Willingness to pay estimates derived from a discrete choice experiment

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1317-1325

  Nieboer, Anna P ^a   Koolman, Xander ^b   Stolk, Elly A ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Discrete choice experiment; Long term care; Preferences; Social production function theory; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; ELDERLY POPULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SERVICES; POLICY MAKING; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK FACTOR; THEORETICAL STUDY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; NURSING HOME; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TREATMENT DURATION;

AGED; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DATA COLLECTION; DEMENTIA; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT PREFERENCE; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; WIDOWHOOD;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 77950962354     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.12.027     Document Type: Article

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