Willingness to Pay for Cataract Surgery in Rural Southern China
| Autor: | Kevin D. Frick, Nathan Congdon, Elaine Baruwa, Mingguang He, Donna Gilbert, Vicki Chan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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China Visual acuity Cross-sectional study medicine.medical_treatment Visual Acuity Cataract Extraction Cataract Interviews as Topic Willingness to pay Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Aged Health Services Needs and Demand business.industry Health Care Costs Odds ratio Middle Aged Cataract surgery Confidence interval Ophthalmology Cross-Sectional Studies Linear Models Renminbi Optometry Female Rural area medicine.symptom business Demography |
| Zdroj: | Ophthalmology. 114:411-416 |
| ISSN: | 0161-6420 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ophtha.2006.09.012 |
| Popis: | To study willingness to pay for cataract surgery, and its associations, in Southern China.Cross-sectional willingness-to-pay interview incorporating elements of the open-ended and bidding formats.Three-hundred thirty-nine persons presenting for cataract screening in Yangjiang, China, with presenting visual acuity (VA)or = 6/60 in either eye due to cataract.Subjects underwent measurement of their VA and a willingness-to-pay interview. Age, gender, literacy, education, and annual income also were recorded.Maximum amount that the subjects would be willing to pay for cataract surgery.Among 325 (95.9%) subjects completing the interview, 169 (52.0%) were 70 years or older, 213 (65.5%) were women, and 217 (66.8%) had an annual income of5000 renminbi (5000 = US 625 dollars). Eighty percent (n = 257) of participants were willing to pay something for surgery (mean, 442+/-444 renminbi [US 55 dollars+/-55]). In regression models, older subjects were willing to pay less (8 renminbi [US 1 dollar] per year of age; P = 0.01). Blind subjects were significantly more likely (odds ratio, 5.7; 95% confidence interval, 1.7-19.3) to pay anything for surgery, but would pay on average 255 renminbi (US 32 dollars) less (P = 0.004). Persons at the highest annual income level (10,000 renminbi [US 1250 dollars]) would pay 50 dollars more for surgery than those at the lowest level (5000 renminbi) (P = 0.0003). The current cost of surgery in this program is 500 renminbi (US 63 dollars).Sustainable programs will need to attract younger, more well-to-do persons with better vision, while still providing access to the neediest patients. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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