PMID- 35052206
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20220128
IS  - 2227-9032 (Print)
IS  - 2227-9032 (Electronic)
IS  - 2227-9032 (Linking)
VI  - 10
IP  - 1
DP  - 2021 Dec 27
TI  - Willingness to Pay to Improve Quality of Public Healthcare Services in Mauritius.
LID - 10.3390/healthcare10010043 [doi]
LID - 43
AB  - Mauritius has a universal free healthcare system, based on the Beveridge model 
      which is financed by taxpayers. There are growing considerations over improving 
      quality of healthcare services. The purpose of the study is to employ a 
      contingency valuation (CV) to investigate the willingness of Mauritians people to 
      pay to improve the quality of public healthcare services and the associated 
      determinants using the double-bounded dichotomous choice model. A drop off survey 
      with a sample size of 974 respondents from the working population is used. The 
      empirical analysis shows that the majority of the sample was willing to pay for 
      improving quality of public healthcare services. Other than the conventional 
      determinants of respondents' demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, the 
      findings support the assertion that psycho-social constructs such as the Theory 
      of Planned Behaviour, Norm-Activation, Public Good Theory, and Perceived Response 
      Efficacy are found to significantly affect Willingness-to-Pay (WTP). The results 
      of this study might be of use to policymakers to help with both priority setting 
      and fund allocation.
FAU - Jeetoo, Jamiil
AU  - Jeetoo J
AD  - Open University of Mauritius, Reduit 80837, Mauritius.
FAU - Jaunky, Vishal Chandr
AU  - Jaunky VC
AD  - Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences, Lulea 
      University of Technology, SE-971 87 Lulea, Sweden.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20211227
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Healthcare (Basel)
JT  - Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)
JID - 101666525
PMC - PMC8774898
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - contingent valuation
OT  - double-bounded dichotomous choice
OT  - healthcare services
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2022/01/22 06:00
MHDA- 2022/01/22 06:01
PMCR- 2021/12/27
CRDT- 2022/01/21 01:02
PHST- 2021/06/22 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/12/02 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/12/06 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/01/21 01:02 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/01/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/01/22 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/12/27 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - healthcare10010043 [pii]
AID - healthcare-10-00043 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/healthcare10010043 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Dec 27;10(1):43. doi: 10.3390/healthcare10010043.