- Title
- Information sharing and willingness-to-pay for CBPP vaccine in rural Kenya
- Creator
- Iles, Richard; Gatumu, Haniel; Kagundu, Samuel; Draheim, Christopher
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/187681
- Identifier
- vital:17112
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.01.072
- Identifier
- ISSN:0264-410X
- Abstract
- •Improved sharing of CBPP risk information increases CBPP vaccine up-take.•Demand increases by 1.5 and 2.3 per cent for improved access and information.•WTP for a 1 h reduction in travel duration is KES 54 (USD 0.52) per vaccine.•WTP for receipt of CBPP risk information is KES 52 (USD 0.67) per vaccine.•Controlling for attribute non-attendance improves model fit and estimates. The study estimates cattle owners' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP) vaccine in Samburu county, Kenya. Of particular policy relevance, the study presents findings on WTP for i) improved access to vaccines and ii) timely access to disease-risk information. The mean price for a CBPP vaccine was estimated at KES 66 (USD 0.64). This price relates to a CBPP vaccine that requires a 1.8 h commute, cattle owners' receipt of timely information that the CBPP disease risk is low-moderate and the vaccine lowers the risk of either tail-drop or post-vaccine abortion. The conditional WTP for mean travel duration and high-risk information are similar at KES 53.9 and KES 51.5. The marginal effect on demand for a 1 h additional travel duration and provision of CBPP disease risk information was estimated as a 1.5 per cent reduction and 2.3 increase. The results of this study indicate that cattle owners value greater levels of knowledge concerning the changing risk profile of CBPP in their community and improved access to CBPP vaccination services. Enhanced engagement with cattle owners concerning CBPP would likely result in a greater utilisation of available CBPP vaccines, conditional on the perceived CBPP disease risk.
- Publisher
- Netherlands: Elsevier Ltd
- Relation
- Vaccine Vol. 37, no. 12 (2019), p. 1659-1666
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright Elsevier
- Subject
- Analysis; Beef cattle; Cattle; Consumers; Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia; Discrete Choice Experiment; Disease risk; Estimates; Experiments; Health risks; Information; Kenya; Medical research; Medicine, Experimental; Pleuropneumonia; Rationality; Risk assessment; Risk perception; Sample size; Travel; Vaccination; Vaccines; Valuation; Willingness to pay; 32 Biomedical and Clinical Sciences; 42 Health Sciences
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