| Title |
Beyond price: individuals' accounts of deciding to pay for private healthcare treatment in the UK
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, March 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-12-53 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Catherine Exley, Nikki Rousseau, Cam Donaldson, Jimmy G Steele |
| Abstract |
Delivering appropriate and affordable healthcare is a concern across the globe. As countries grapple with the issue of delivering healthcare with finite resources and populations continue to age, more health-related care services or treatments may become an optional 'extra' to be purchased privately. It is timely to consider how, and to what extent, the individual can act as both a 'patient' and a 'consumer'. In the UK the majority of healthcare treatments are free at the point of delivery. However, increasingly some healthcare treatments are being made available via the private healthcare market. Drawing from insights from healthcare policy and social sciences, this paper uses the exemplar of private dental implant treatment provision in the UK to examine what factors people considered when deciding whether or not to pay for a costly healthcare treatment for a non-fatal condition. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 75% |
| Unknown | 1 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 100% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Kenya | 1 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Egypt | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 59 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 6% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 11 | 18% |
| Unknown | 19 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 17 | 27% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 13% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 5% |
| Psychology | 3 | 5% |
| Computer Science | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 8 | 13% |
| Unknown | 21 | 34% |
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