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Title: | Existence and magnitude of health-related externalities [electronic resource] |
Authors: | Hurley, Jeremiah E. Mentzakis, Emmanouil. McMaster University |
Keywords: | Cost-Benefit Analysis;Health Policy;Economics, Medical;Medical care;Finance;Medical policy;Humanitarianism |
Publication Date: | 2011 |
Publisher: | Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University |
Series/Report no.: | CHEPA working paper series (Online) ; #11-01 |
Abstract: | Health-related external benefits are of potentially large importance for public policy. This paper investigates health-related external benefits using a stated-preference discrete-choice experiment framed in a health care context and including choice scenarios defined by six attributes related to a recipient and the recipient's condition: communicability, severity, medical necessity, relationship to respondent, location, and contribution requested. Subjects also completed a set of own-treatment scenarios and a values-orientation instrument. We find evidence of substantial health-related external benefits that vary as expected with the scenario attributes and subjects' value orientations. The results are consistent with a number of hypotheses offered by the general theoretical analysis of health-related externalities and the analysis of externalities specific to health care. |
Description: | Jeremiah Hurley, Emmanouil Mentzakis. "February 15, 2011". Includes bibliographical references (p. 22-24). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
URI: | HTTP://libaccess.mcmaster.ca/login?url=http://books.scholarsportal.info/viewdoc.html?id=/ebooks/ebooks1/gibson_chrc/2011-10-10/1/10490973 HTTP://libaccess.mcmaster.ca/login?url=http://celarc.ca/cppc/229/229351.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11375/16902 |
Appears in Collections: | CHEPA Working Paper Series |
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