Willingness to Pay for Elderly Tele-Care System Using Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting

Ogasawara Katsuhiko; Kaga Satoshi; Suzuki Teppei; Tani Yuji; Higashikawa Fumihiro; Enomoto Hisashi; Moriyama Hiroyuki; Kise Nobuyuki

Willingness to Pay for Elderly Tele-Care System Using Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2017:245:1366.

Authors

Ogasawara Katsuhiko¹, Kaga Satoshi¹, Suzuki Teppei², Tani Yuji², Higashikawa Fumihiro³, Enomoto Hisashi⁴, Moriyama Hiroyuki⁵, Kise Nobuyuki⁴

Affiliations

¹ Graduate school of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
² Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
³ TV Asahi Corporation, Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴ Iwamizawa City, Iwamizawa, Hokkaido, Japan.
⁵ Hamanasu Information CO., LTD, Iwamizawa, Hokkaido, Japan.

PMID: 29295445

Abstract

The aim of this research is to quantify individual willingness-to-pay (WTP) to test effectiveness of Digital terrestrial broadcasting elderly tele-care system.We used contingent valuation method (CVM) to estimate the WTP for this system among 400 citizens living in Japan. The median WTP for this services's monthly fee is estimated to be 431 JPY. The finding suggests that people who cares their health were pay more to use this system.

Keywords: WTP: (willingness to pay); digital terrestrial broadcasting; tere-care system.

MeSH terms

Aged
Financing, Personal
Humans
Japan
Telemedicine / economics*