Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
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University of Oslo, Health Economics Research Programme
No 2002:16: An inquiry into the size of health charities: The case of Norwegian patient organisations
Jan Abel Olsen () and Jan Inge Eidem
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Jan Abel Olsen: Institute of Community Medicine, Postal: University of Tromsø, 9037 Tromsø, Norway
Jan Inge Eidem: Department of Economics, Postal: University of Tromsø, Norway
Abstract: This paper analyses the extents to which variations in revenues and memberships of health charities – or patient organisations – might be explained by characteristics of the diseases that the organisations represent. After a theoretical discussion it inquires into 45 Norwegian patient organisations. The findings suggest that prevalence, followed by death risk are the most important characteristics of the disease for explaining charity size. There were indications that the status of the disease influenced memberships. Still, the most significant variables to explain revenues are the organisation’s age and its memberships. Cross-sectional comparisons gave no indications that public revenues ‘crowd out’ private donations.
Keywords: Health charities; disease characteristics
15 pages, June 30, 2009
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