기사
Use, option and externality values: are contingent valuation studies in health care mis-specified? /
- 개인저자
- Smith, Richard D.
- 수록페이지
- 861-869 p.
- 발행일자
- 2007.08.20
- 출판사
- Wiley
초록
[영문]A general population sample of Australian respondents completed a contingent valuation (CV) survey that asked them to value six scenarios. These varied according to whether the scenario was seeking to elicit: (i) use value; (ii) externality value; (iii) option value; or (iv) a combination. Results indicate that use plus externality and/or option value was significantly greater than use value alone. As CV studies in health (care) overwhelmingly focus on use value alone ? often implicitly through study design rather than explicitly ? this raises the possibility of mis-specification in CV research in health (care). The implications for CV in health (care) are considered