Organ Donation Awareness: Rethinking Media Campaigns

Organizations as Communities: Creating Worksite Campaigns to Promote Organ Donation

Organ Donation Campaigns: Perspective of Dialysis Patient's Family Members

BACKGROUND Solving the dilemma of the organ shortage in Malaysia requires educating Malaysians about organ donation and transplantation. This paper aims at exploring the average Malaysian households ' preferred channels of campaigns and the preferred campaigners in a family setting, targeting at the dialysis family members. METHODS We analyzed the responses of 350 respondents regarding organ ...

Social Media and Organ Donation Authors:

Organ donation, transplantation, and mass media.

CADAVERIC organ shortage is the most important obstacle to more widespread provision of transplants to more patients. This shortage is not primarily the result of a lack of suitable donors but rather the result of failure to identify donors, obtain consent, and procure the organs. Approaching the family represents a key point in the process and at the same time is its most sensitive element bec...