The Contingent Valuation Method in Health Care: An Economic Evaluation of Alzheimer s Disease

Preface.- List of Abbreviations.- 1 : Introduction.- 1. The contingent valuation method.- 2. Alzheimer's disease.- 3. Study objectives.- 4. Organization of the book.- 2: Study Design.- 1. Economic burden of Alzheimer's disease.- 2. Program 'care' - helping caregivers.- 3. Program 'diagnosis' - detecting AD early.- 4. Program 'research' - search for a cure of AD.- 5. Financing of the programs.- 3 : Elicitation Methods.- 1. Continuous contingent valuation format.- 2. Discrete contingent valuation format.- 3. Biases in contingent valuation studies 17 3.1 Yea-saying.- 3.2 Protest answers.- 3.3 Question ordering bias.- 3.4 Payment vehicle bias.- 3.5 Embedding effect.- 3.6 Warm glow effect.- 3.7 Information bias 20.- 4. Chosen elicitation techniques.- 4.1 Dichotomous choice (DC) format.- 4.2 Dissonance-minimizing (DM) format.- 4.3 Payment card (PC) format.- 4: Estimation Methods.- 1. Estimation methods for the discrete CV (DC and DM).- 1.1 Logistic regression analysis.- 1.2 Nonparametric method.- 2. Estimation methods for payment card (PC).- 5: Data.- 1. Sample structure and data collection.- 2. Descriptive statistics.- 6: Results.- 1. Program 'care' with taxes.- 1.1 Data.- 1.2 Dichotomous choice (DC) format.- 1.3 Dissonance minimizing (DM) format.- 1.4 Payment card (PC) format.- 1.5 Overview of the tax financed care program.- 2. Program 'diagnosis'.- 2.1 Data.- 2.2 Dichotomous choice (DC) format.- 2.3 Dissonance minimizing (DM) format.- 2.4 Payment card (PC) format.- 2.5 Overview of insurance financed diagnosis program.- 3. Program 'research'.- 3.1 Data.- 3.2 Dichotomous choice (DC) format.- 3.3 Dissonance minimizing (DM) format.- 3.4 Payment card (PC) format.- 3.5 Overview of the research program.- 7: Possible Reasons for Variation in the WTP values.- 1. Mean versus median WTP.- 2. Yea-saying and protest answers.- 3. Question ordering.- 4. Payment vehicle.- 5. Representation of the valuation function.- 6. Warm glow effect.- 7. Information bias.- 8: Cost-benefit analysis.- 1. Cost-benefit analysis for the program 'care'.- 2. Cost-benefit analysis for the program 'diagnosis'.- 3. Cost-benefit analysis for the program 'research'.- 4. Policy implications.- 9: Conclusions.- 1. Summary.- 2. Guideline for a contingent valuation study.- 10 : Appendix.- 1. Correlation matrix.- 2. Detail diagnosis.- 3. Detail Research.- 4. Detail care with insurance.- 5. Questionnaires.- 5.1 Questionnaire for programs 'diagnosis' and 'care' with taxes (DC method), full version.- 5.2 Questionnaire for programs 'diagnosis' and 'care' with taxes (DM method), short version.- 5.3 Questionnaire for programs 'research' and 'care' with insurance (PC method), short version.- Acknowledgments.- References.