Impact of Subsidies and Price on Adoption and Sustainability Sample Clauses

Impact of Subsidies and Price on Adoption and Sustainability. Product subsidies and pricing are additional factors that may affect both short-term use and long-term sustainability of HWT interventions. Many SWS and HWT interventions begin as a free distribution following an emergency or are cost-subsidized by donor organizations leading to questions regarding self-sustainability and uptake of the product after subsidies end. Although few studies have been conducted on this issue specifically in the context of SWS or HWT in general, a study of the impact of health subsidies on future purchases of public health related merchandise found that people who received higher subsidies on insecticide treated bed nets were more likely to purchase them when offered the product a year later in comparison to those who were offered a higher initial purchase price (Xxxxx, 2012) . (Xxxxx, 2012) uses her field experiment to present a behavioral model relating to the sustained adoption of free or reduced-price health products after they are no longer subsidized. She argues that in order for a short-term product subsidy to serve as a catalyst for long-term behavior change, the intervention must have certain qualities in regards to its economic impact at the household level and effects on quality of life (Xxxxx, 2012). Using this model, (Xxxxx, 2012) suggests that short-term subsidies may not be appropriate for household chlorination or SWS interventions because the economic and health benefits (e.g. increased productivity, diminished health care expenditures, increased disposable income, improved health) are not obvious in a shorter time period and so the immediate negative impacts on quality of life (e.g. bad taste of chlorine, inconvenience of waiting for disinfection, strain on household finances, and reduced disposable