Willingness to pay for a quality-adjusted life year: an evaluation of attitudes towards risk and preferences.

Background: This paper examines the Willingness to Pay (WTP) for a quality-adjusted life year (QALY) expressed by people who attended the healthcare system as well as the association of attitude towards risk and other personal characteristics with their response.

Methods: Health-state preferences, measured by EuroQol (EQ-5D-3L), were combined with WTP for recovering a perfect health state. WTP was assessed using close-ended, iterative bidding, contingent valuation method.

Economic valuation of health care services in public health systems: a study about Willingness to Pay (WTP) for nursing consultations.

Background: Identifying the economic value assigned by users to a particular health service is of principal interest in planning the service. The aim of this study was to evaluate the perception of economic value of nursing consultation in primary care (PC) by its users.

Methods And Results: Economic study using contingent valuation methodology.

Effectiveness of a cognitive behavioral intervention in patients with medically unexplained symptoms: cluster randomized trial.

Background: Medically unexplained symptoms are an important mental health problem in primary care and generate a high cost in health services.Cognitive behavioral therapy and psychodynamic therapy have proven effective in these patients. However, there are few studies on the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions by primary health care.

[Quality of life related to health as a factor explaining the use of family medical consultation: a study on the behavioral model].

Background: Health services utilization has been studied under several conceptual models. This study is aimed to assess the influence of Health Related Quality of Life (HRQL) on the variability of the primary care consultation utilization under the <>

Methods: A cross-sectional study. Interviews were conducted with 451 subjects at six health centers in the Community of Madrid.

Differences between willingness to pay and willingness to accept for visits by a family physician: a contingent valuation study.

Background: The economic value attributed by users of health services in public health systems can be useful in planning and evaluation. This value can differ from the perspectives of Willingness to Pay (WTP) and Willingness to Accept [Compensation] (WTA).Our objective was to study the perceptions of the patient about the service provided by the family physician by means of the WTA/WTP ratio.