Volume 16, Issue 1 (2016)
QJER 2016, 16(1): 1-19 |
Back to browse issues page
Download citation:
BibTeX | RIS | EndNote | Medlars | ProCite | Reference Manager | RefWorks
Send citation to:
BibTeX | RIS | EndNote | Medlars | ProCite | Reference Manager | RefWorks
Send citation to:
Kazemian M, Javadi Nasab H. Contingent Valuation and Willingness to Pay for Arbitrary Health Care Insurance: Time-Series Analysis. QJER 2016; 16 (1) :1-19
URL: http://ecor.modares.ac.ir/article-18-5877-en.html
URL: http://ecor.modares.ac.ir/article-18-5877-en.html
1- Faculty Member, Department of Health Economics, School of Medical Sciences. Shahed University.
2- Ph.D. Student of Health Services Management, Department of Health Services Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University. And Expert of Secretariat of Health & Food Security, Ministry of Health & Medical Education, Tehran, Iran
2- Ph.D. Student of Health Services Management, Department of Health Services Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University. And Expert of Secretariat of Health & Food Security, Ministry of Health & Medical Education, Tehran, Iran
Abstract: (9211 Views)
Employees in the informal sector of the Iranian economy suffer from lack of access to various health insurance services. This research tries to assess the development of arbitrary health insurance schemes and households’ willingness to pay for health care premium for the low-income employees in the informal sector, totally aiming at universal coverage for the insurance scheme. This research is of statistical- analytic type, which uses contingent valuation questionnaire to estimate households’ willingness to pay for arbitrary health care premium subject to government financial contribution. To do this, it applies record data over the period 1987-2009. The regression analysis is used to determine households’ health care premium and public sector contribution. The research estimates the premium of the arbitrary health care insurance for the urban households in the first three deciles and determines the government contribution to this scheme. The estimated elasticities show that reduction in the government share in health care premium increases the effect of social- economic variables on households’ willingness to pay for health care premium. To achieve universal coverage in the arbitrary health insurance scheme for the low-income group requires providing appropriate data on variables affecting households’ willingness to pay through contingent valuation questionnaire. In addition, the administrative system for social health care insurance should be developed to the extent that low-income households can get access to insurance administrative services, and receive full information about annual households’ income and health expenditure, public sector contribution and monetary value for the arbitrary health insurance services.
Keywords: Arbitrary health care insurance scheme, active population in informal sector, socioeconomic health index, universal health care insurance coverage
Received: 2012/12/1 | Accepted: 2014/11/12 | Published: 2016/05/21
| Rights and permissions | |
 |
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. |