In recent years, public donation has already been widely accepted as an effective and efficient way to help people or communities who are in urgent needs of public help considering their current financial situations. The great influence of mass media has strongly raised people’s awareness of public donation. Many people are enthusiastic about public donation but have no idea about where to dona...

The prevalence of myths preventing people partial to donation in Australia from consenting is unknown. Respondents (N = 468: 381 donors, 26 non-donors, 61 undecided) were surveyed about their (negative) donation beliefs. Approximately 30% of donors were neutral or supported negative beliefs about organ allocation, especially donation to undesirable organ recipients and a black market organ trad...

Background: Role of youngsters in voluntary blood donation is crucial to meet the demand of safe blood. Therefore understanding the various factors contributing to knowledge, attitude and practice of Voluntary Blood Donation (VBD) among youngsters is important. Objectives: The present study aims to assess the level of knowledge, attitude and practice regarding blood donation among the health ca...

Donation matching in charitable giving does not always improve donation outcomes. This may occur because individuals believe peers will exhaust the matching funds. We develop a theory about how beliefs about peers generosity affect own likelihood of donation. We test our theory in field and laboratory experiments using novel “threshold match” treatments. Results show that donation is more likel...

With the introduction of the Australian Organ Donation Register (AODR), responsibility regarding organ donation decisions primarily rests with the individual. However, family members can be instrumental in facilitating or hindering the rate of organ donation by objecting to or confirming the individual’s wishes. Attitudes and beliefs of family members have been shown to be a strong influence on...

While great strides have been made in persuading the public to become potential organ donors, actual behavior has not yet caught up with the nearly universally favorable attitudes the public expresses toward donation. This paper explores the issue by situating the social marketing of organ donation against a broader backdrop of entertainment and news media coverage of organ donation. Organ dona...

Background and Objective. The aim of this study was to determine factors associated with repeat blood donation. Methods. This was a cross-sectional study carried out among blood donors aged 18-65 years in northern Tanzania. The questionnaire was administered among 454 participants through the phone. Results. Of the 454 participants, the proportion of repeat donation was 63.9%. In the backward l...

ABSTRACT Generally, the Swiss hold favourable attitudes to organ donation, but only few carry a donor card. If no card is found on a potential donor, families have to be approached about donation. The aim of this paper is to model the role that some family communication factors play in the family decision to consent or not to organ donation by a brain dead relative. Information was gathered in ...

Infertility is a significant challenge, both on individual and macro levels. The overall aim of this paper to contribute better understanding infertility in Serbia by analysing relevant policies programmes, data the epidemiology infertility, health services, research findings. investigation grounded action methodology, which built shared process reflection between researchers participants selec...