Application and significance of willingness-to-pay in measuring the burden of skin diseases
10.3760/cma.j.issn.0412-4030.2019.04.015
- VernacularTitle:支付意愿在测量皮肤疾病负担中的意义与应用
- Author:
Yi XIAO
1
;
Liping CHEN
;
Danrong JING
;
Juan SU
;
Meng LI
;
Minxue SHEN
;
Xiang CHEN
Author Information
1. 中南大学湘雅医院皮肤科皮肤健康与疾病湖南省工程研究中心皮肤肿瘤与银屑病湖南省重点实验室
- Keywords:
Skin diseases;
Cost of illness;
Quality of life;
Willingness-to-pay;
Health utilities
- From:
Chinese Journal of Dermatology
2019;52(4):286-289
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
According to the new biopsychosocial medical model,status and burden of diseases should be evaluated comprehensively,and health-related quality of life can be an important measurement index of the burden of diseases.Conventional assessment methods for health-related quality of life include interval-based assessment methods and preference-based assessment methods (health utilities and willingness-to-pay).This review introduces willingness-to-pay,and summarizes its applications in skin diseases.However,at present,only a small quantity of small-scale studies are available on willingness-to-pay,with only a few kinds of skin diseases involved.In the application of health-economic assessment of skin diseases,willingness-to-pay can serve as an approximate index of benefit gains,and be more valuable in practice than health utilities (the index of utility gains).With the increase in health-economic researches on skin diseases,more attention is paid to the willingness-to-pay for skin diseases and other health-economic assessment methods,and large-scale health-economic assessment-related researches are expected to be conducted on more kinds of skin diseases.
