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Parental willingness to pay for child safety seats in Mashad, Iran

BACKGROUND: Iran has one of the highest rates of road traffic crash death rates throughout the world and road traffic injuries are the leading cause of years of life lost in the country. Using child car safety seats is not mandatory by law in Iran. The purpose of this research was to determine the p...

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Autores principales: Jarahi, Lida, Karbakhsh, Mojgan, Rashidian, Arash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3110571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21548995
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-281
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description BACKGROUND: Iran has one of the highest rates of road traffic crash death rates throughout the world and road traffic injuries are the leading cause of years of life lost in the country. Using child car safety seats is not mandatory by law in Iran. The purpose of this research was to determine the parental willingness to pay (WTP) for child restraints in Mashad, the second most populated city in Iran with one of the highest rates of road traffic-related deaths. METHODS: We surveyed 590 car-owner parents of kindergarten children who were willing to participate in the study in the year 2009. We asked them about the maximum amount of money they were willing to pay for car safety seats using contingent valuation method. RESULTS: The mean age of children was 33.5 months. The median parental WTP for CSS was about $15. Considering the real price of CSSs in Iran, only 12 percent of responders could be categorized as being willing to pay for it. Family income level was the main predictor of being willing to pay. CONCLUSIONS: The median parental WTP was much lower than the actual price of the safety seats, and those who were of lower socio-economic class were less willing to pay. Interventions to increase low-income families' access to child safety seats such as providing free of charge or subsidized seats, renting or health insurance coverage should be considered.
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spelling pubmed-31105712011-06-09 Parental willingness to pay for child safety seats in Mashad, Iran Jarahi, Lida Karbakhsh, Mojgan Rashidian, Arash BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Iran has one of the highest rates of road traffic crash death rates throughout the world and road traffic injuries are the leading cause of years of life lost in the country. Using child car safety seats is not mandatory by law in Iran. The purpose of this research was to determine the parental willingness to pay (WTP) for child restraints in Mashad, the second most populated city in Iran with one of the highest rates of road traffic-related deaths. METHODS: We surveyed 590 car-owner parents of kindergarten children who were willing to participate in the study in the year 2009. We asked them about the maximum amount of money they were willing to pay for car safety seats using contingent valuation method. RESULTS: The mean age of children was 33.5 months. The median parental WTP for CSS was about $15. Considering the real price of CSSs in Iran, only 12 percent of responders could be categorized as being willing to pay for it. Family income level was the main predictor of being willing to pay. CONCLUSIONS: The median parental WTP was much lower than the actual price of the safety seats, and those who were of lower socio-economic class were less willing to pay. Interventions to increase low-income families' access to child safety seats such as providing free of charge or subsidized seats, renting or health insurance coverage should be considered. BioMed Central 2011-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3110571/ /pubmed/21548995 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-281 Text en Copyright ©2011 Jarahi et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Parental willingness to pay for child safety seats in Mashad, Iran
title_fullStr Parental willingness to pay for child safety seats in Mashad, Iran
title_full_unstemmed Parental willingness to pay for child safety seats in Mashad, Iran
title_short Parental willingness to pay for child safety seats in Mashad, Iran
title_sort parental willingness to pay for child safety seats in mashad, iran
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3110571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21548995
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-281
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