Organ donation : opportunities for action

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Label

Organ donation : opportunities for action

Title remainder

opportunities for action

Statement of responsibility

Committee on Increasing Rates of Organ Donation, Board on Health Sciences Policy ; James F. Childress and Catharyn T. Liverman, editors

Creator

• Institute of Medicine (U.S.), Committee on Increasing Rates of Organ Donation

Contributor

• Childress, James F
• Liverman, Catharyn T

Subject

• Donation of organs, tissues, etc
• Donation of organs, tissues, etc
• Electronic books
• HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases | General
• HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues
• Health Policy -- United States
• MEDICAL -- Diseases
• MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery
• MEDICAL -- Health Policy
• MEDICAL -- Public Health
• Tissue Donors -- supply & distribution -- United States
• Tissue and Organ Procurement -- organization & administration -- United States
• Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc
• Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc
• Transplants -- supply & distribution -- United States

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

Rates of organ donation lag far behind the increasing need. At the start of 2006, more than 90,000 people were waiting to receive a solid organ (kidney, liver, lung, pancreas, heart, or intestine). Organ Donation examines a wide range of proposals to increase organ donation, including policies that presume consent for donation as well as the use of financial incentives such as direct payments, coverage of funeral expenses, and charitable contributions. This book urges federal agencies, nonprofit groups, and others to boost opportunities for people to record their decisions to donate, strengthen efforts to educate the public about the benefits of organ donation, and continue to improve donation systems. Organ Donation also supports initiatives to increase donations from people whose deaths are the result of irreversible cardiac failure. This book emphasizes that all members of society have a stake in an adequate supply of organs for patients in need, because each individual is a potential recipient as well as a potential donor

Member of

• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

362.19/795

Funding information

This study was supported by Award no. HHSH23457010 between the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

RD129.5

LC item number

.O74 2006eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography
• technical reports

NLM call number

WO 660

NLM item number

I568o 2006