Europeans' willingness to pay for ending homelessness: A contingent valuation study
| Autor: | Sandrine Loubière, Roberto Bernad, Maria Vargas-Moniz, Massimo Santinello, Owen Taylor, Branagh R. O'Shaughnessy, José Ornelas, Anderson Loundou, Håkan Källmén, Pascal Auquier, Anna Bokszczanin, Judith R. L. M. Wolf, Aurélie Tinland |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Health (social science)
Housing First Psychological intervention Healthcare improvement science Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 18] 03 medical and health sciences All institutes and research themes of the Radboud University Medical Center 0302 clinical medicine History and Philosophy of Science Willingness to pay Contingent valuation method Europe Homelessness Housing first Health care 030212 general & internal medicine Contingent valuation 030505 public health Public economics business.industry Willingness to pay Contingent valuation method Housing first Homelessness Bidding housing first homelessness Respondent Value (economics) Business contingent valuation method 0305 other medical science willingness to pay |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) instacron:RCAAP Social Science & Medicine, 247 |
| ISSN: | 1873-5347 0277-9536 |
| Popis: | The purpose of this study is to assess the utility value European citizens put on an innovative social program aimed at reducing homelessness. The Housing First (HF) model involves access to regular, scattered, independent and integrated housing in the community with the support of a multidisciplinary team. Currently, HF is not implemented by most European countries or funded by healthcare or social plans, but randomised controlled trials have stressed significant results for improved housing stability, recovery and healthcare services use. The broader implementation of HF across Europe would benefit from a better understanding of citizens' preferences and "willingness to pay" (WTP) for medico-social interventions like HF. We conducted a representative telephone survey between March and December 2017 in eight European countries (France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden). Respondent's WTP for HF (N = 5631) was assessed through a contingent valuation method with a bidding algorithm. 42.3% of respondents were willing to pay more taxes to reduce homelessness through the HF model, and significant differences were found between countries (p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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