The paper reports on a cross-sectional multi-good contingent valuation survey conducted between April and September 2009 with three representative samples of the Irish population (N = 1214) to identify rankings and preferences for different community care programmes including: family care programme, a state-provided care programme and three different telecare programmes.
Accordingly, there is increasing need to provide HAART through non governmental programmes including home or community care programmes.
As of June 2007, of the more than 100,000 people in Uganda taking HAART, 14% received their drugs through home or community care programmes, mostly through TASO.
It rapidly grew into a national community health care programme aiming to improve the accessibility and quality of health and family planning care [ 5].
Fears of "gossip and ridicule" in the community were common in the collaborative community-based care programme in India [ 23].
In an Indian collaborative community-based care programme reported on by Balaji et al., five out of 30 participants could not read, rendering psychoeducational materials inappropriate.
Balaji et al. in India noted difficulties in the roll-out of their collaborative community-based care programme in that out of 43 patients who consented to be involved only 30 received the intervention because 13 were unreachable or had been hospitalized [ 23].
Some community opinion leaders, however, indicated that where there is a community care of orphans programme, child abuse significantly goes down, as few cases are reported due to the monitoring that takes place.
However, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of each community mental health care programme has to be evaluated in its special setting both in terms of real implementation and in terms of patients' characteristics.
This paper explores Irish citizens preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for a range of community-based care programmes, including different telecare programmes that support older people to continue living at home.
