Methods and tools for measuring willingness to pay for healthcare: what is suitable for developing countries?
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Background Willingness to pay (WTP) is one of important economic value. Application of this evaluation method in health care at present is becoming popular. However, it is very important for researcher to take into account the strengths and weaknesses of such method when it is used on the respondents. The purpose of this review was to identify economic evaluation methods and tools that had been used to measure WTP for health care and consider how it can address certain benefit issues to patients.
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