Inequality in willingness-to-pay for community-based health insuranceHengjin Dong
Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 324, D 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Health Policy 72:149-56. 2005
..Since the distribution of WTP by household is less unequal than the distribution of WTP by individuals, the household might be a better unit of enrolment in terms of equity than the individual...
- A comparison of the reliability of the take-it-or-leave-it and the bidding game approaches to estimating willingness-to-pay in a rural population in West Africa
Hengjin Dong
Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 324, D 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
Soc Sci Med 56:2181-9. 2003
..This study is based on larger sample size than previous studies and also is one of the first studies of the reliability of WTP in a developing country...
- Health financing policies: patient care-seeking behavior in rural China
Hengjin Dong
Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Int J Technol Assess Health Care 19:526-32. 2003
..To study the effects of health financing systems on patient care-seeking behavior in rural China...
- The differences in characteristics between health-care users and non-users: implication for introducing community-based health insurance in Burkina Faso
Hengjin Dong
Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 324, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
Eur J Health Econ 9:41-50. 2008
..However, the role of CBI in Burkina Faso is rather limited: it might only increase utilisation of western health care by a probability of 4%...
- Willingness-to-pay for community-based insurance in Burkina Faso
Hengjin Dong
Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Health Econ 12:849-62. 2003
..In addition, factors that influence WTP were to be identified...
- Differential willingness of household heads to pay community-based health insurance premia for themselves and other household members
Hengjin Dong
Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Health Policy Plan 19:120-6. 2004
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- The feasibility of community-based health insurance in Burkina Faso
Hengjin Dong
Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 324, D 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Health Policy 69:45-53. 2004
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- Gender's effect on willingness-to-pay for community-based insurance in Burkina Faso
Hengjin Dong
Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 324, D 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
Health Policy 64:153-62. 2003
..WTP should never be taken as a premium because it only provides some information for the respondents' financial acceptability for a certain benefits package...
- The effects of mandatory health insurance on equity in access to outpatient care in Indonesia
Budi Hidayat
Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Health Policy Plan 19:322-35. 2004
..A substantial increase in access will be gained by expanding insurance to the whole population. However, neither Askes nor Jamsostek had a positive impact on equity. Policy implications are discussed...
- The effect of community-based health insurance on the utilization of modern health care services: evidence from Burkina Faso
Devendra Prasad Gnawali
Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
Health Policy 90:214-22. 2009
..To quantify the impact of community-based health insurance (CBI) on utilization of health care services in rural Burkina Faso...
- Drop-out analysis of community-based health insurance membership at Nouna, Burkina Faso
Hengjin Dong
Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, University of Heidelberg, INF 324, D 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Health Policy 92:174-9. 2009
..This study aims to identify the reasons why enrolled people decide not to renew their membership in following years...
- Gender role and child health care utilization in Nepal
Subhash Pokhrel
Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, University of Heidelberg, INF 324, D 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Health Policy 74:100-9. 2005
..To study the gender role in child health care utilization in Nepal...
- Costing health care interventions at primary health facilities in Nouna, Burkina Faso
Frederick Mugisha
Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, Heidelberg University, Im Neuerheimer Feld 324, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Afr J Health Sci 9:69-79. 2002
..These intervention costs provide a valuable source of information that feeds into economic evaluations and allows comparisons from a total health perspective for sectoral resource allocation decisions...
- Cost analysis of pneumonia treatment in the Philippines
Kehui Liu
Health and Prevention Center of Shaanxi Province Xian, Shaanxi 710054, P R China
Int J Health Plann Manage 18:221-31. 2003
..Clinical guidelines should be effectively implemented and PHIC should contribute more to reduce existing variations, improve cost-effectiveness and the quality of clinical practices...
- Value of information analysis for a new technology: computer-assisted total knee replacement
Hengjin Dong
Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, Heidelberg University, Germany
Int J Technol Assess Health Care 23:337-42. 2007
..The aim of this study was to demonstrate how value of information analysis can measure the upper limit on returns to future research and identify the research priorities for computer-assisted total knee replacement (CAS-TKR)...
- Willingness to pay for hypothetical malaria vaccines in rural Burkina Faso
Rainer Sauerborn
Hygiene Institut, , Germany
Scand J Public Health 33:146-50. 2005
..Here it is argued that such information could help researchers and funding agencies to set priorities for future vaccine research...
- The two faces of enhancing utilization of health-care services: determinants of patient initiation and retention in rural Burkina Faso
Frederick Mugisha
African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya
Bull World Health Organ 82:572-9. 2004
..To explore the factors that determine whether a patient will initiate treatment within a system of health-care services, and the factors that determine whether the patient will be retained in the chosen system, in Nouna, rural Burkina Faso...
- Early assessment of the likely cost-effectiveness of a new technology: A Markov model with probabilistic sensitivity analysis of computer-assisted total knee replacement
Hengjin Dong
Brunel University, Uxbridge Middlesex Ub8 3Ph, UK
Int J Technol Assess Health Care 22:191-202. 2006
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