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Willingness to Pay to Improve Quality of Public Healthcare Services in Mauritius
Mauritius has a universal free healthcare system, based on the Beveridge model which is financed by taxpayers. There are growing considerations over improving quality of healthcare services. The purpose of the study is to employ a contingency valuation (CV) to investigate the willingness of Mauritia...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8774898/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35052206 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10010043 |
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author | Jeetoo, Jamiil Jaunky, Vishal Chandr |
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description | Mauritius has a universal free healthcare system, based on the Beveridge model which is financed by taxpayers. There are growing considerations over improving quality of healthcare services. The purpose of the study is to employ a contingency valuation (CV) to investigate the willingness of Mauritians people to pay to improve the quality of public healthcare services and the associated determinants using the double-bounded dichotomous choice model. A drop off survey with a sample size of 974 respondents from the working population is used. The empirical analysis shows that the majority of the sample was willing to pay for improving quality of public healthcare services. Other than the conventional determinants of respondents’ demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, the findings support the assertion that psycho-social constructs such as the Theory of Planned Behaviour, Norm-Activation, Public Good Theory, and Perceived Response Efficacy are found to significantly affect Willingness-to-Pay (WTP). The results of this study might be of use to policymakers to help with both priority setting and fund allocation. |
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spelling | pubmed-87748982022-01-21 Willingness to Pay to Improve Quality of Public Healthcare Services in Mauritius Jeetoo, Jamiil Jaunky, Vishal Chandr Healthcare (Basel) Article Mauritius has a universal free healthcare system, based on the Beveridge model which is financed by taxpayers. There are growing considerations over improving quality of healthcare services. The purpose of the study is to employ a contingency valuation (CV) to investigate the willingness of Mauritians people to pay to improve the quality of public healthcare services and the associated determinants using the double-bounded dichotomous choice model. A drop off survey with a sample size of 974 respondents from the working population is used. The empirical analysis shows that the majority of the sample was willing to pay for improving quality of public healthcare services. Other than the conventional determinants of respondents’ demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, the findings support the assertion that psycho-social constructs such as the Theory of Planned Behaviour, Norm-Activation, Public Good Theory, and Perceived Response Efficacy are found to significantly affect Willingness-to-Pay (WTP). The results of this study might be of use to policymakers to help with both priority setting and fund allocation. MDPI 2021-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8774898/ /pubmed/35052206 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10010043 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Jeetoo, Jamiil Jaunky, Vishal Chandr Willingness to Pay to Improve Quality of Public Healthcare Services in Mauritius |
title | Willingness to Pay to Improve Quality of Public Healthcare Services in Mauritius |
title_full | Willingness to Pay to Improve Quality of Public Healthcare Services in Mauritius |
title_fullStr | Willingness to Pay to Improve Quality of Public Healthcare Services in Mauritius |
title_full_unstemmed | Willingness to Pay to Improve Quality of Public Healthcare Services in Mauritius |
title_short | Willingness to Pay to Improve Quality of Public Healthcare Services in Mauritius |
title_sort | willingness to pay to improve quality of public healthcare services in mauritius |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8774898/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35052206 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10010043 |
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