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dc.contributor.authorMathur, Rachna
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-14T11:54:11Z
dc.date.available2015-07-14T11:54:11Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationMathur, R. (2015). Willingness To Pay For Reproductive Healthcare Services: A Case Study Of Patna. 1st IIMA International Conference on Advances in Healthcare Management Services. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabaden_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11718/14118
dc.description.abstractThe present study focused on the importance of reproductive healthcare and aims to find out the willingness to pay for reproductive healthcare services in Patna. There are various sources of health care financing in India namely government budgetary allocations, loans and grants obtained from multilateral and bilateral agencies, private sector contributions and the out of pocket payment. Among all the sources, the worrisome picture is the heavy out of pocket expenditure on health which adversely affects access to health care as it is catastrophic to poor households and further impoverishes them. Thus the study aims at converting this out of pocket expenditure on reproductive health into reproductive health insurance programme on the basis of willingness to pay by applying contingent valuation method. Study also aims to identify the determinants which influence the willingness to pay for reproductive healthcare services in Patna. Primary survey was conducted in all government and private hospitals in the year 2011. Questionnaire was conducted from 528 respondents out of which 391 respondents revealed their Willingness to Pay. Response validity is tested by relating WTP response to respondent’s socio-economic and demographic characteristics. The final result shows that age of the respondent and joint-family type are negatively related while household monthly income, chance of caesarean delivery, complications in earlier delivery, RHCS offered by the hospitals, private- hospital type are significant and are positively related to WTP for reproductive healthcare services in the present study.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherIndian Institute of Management, Ahmedabaden_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIC 15;035
dc.subjectReproductive Health Insuranceen_US
dc.subjectUser costsen_US
dc.subjectOut Of Pocket Expenditureen_US
dc.subjectContingent Valuation Methoden_US
dc.subjectOpen Ended Questionsen_US
dc.subjectBinary Logistic Modelen_US
dc.titleWillingness To Pay For Reproductive Healthcare Services: A Case Study Of Patnaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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