Blood Donation And/or Blood Trade

Blood Donation And/or Blood Trade
Author: Madhusudan Raj
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre:
ISBN:

Thousands of people die every year because of lack of blood supply. The chief cause of this lack of blood supply is the sole reliance on voluntary blood donations, and the demonization of blood trade. This paper makes a case for a free market blood supply. It shows how blood trade will benefit everyone.

HIV and the Blood Supply

HIV and the Blood Supply
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 1995-10-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309053293

During the early years of the AIDS epidemic, thousands of Americans became infected with HIV through the nation's blood supply. Because little reliable information existed at the time AIDS first began showing up in hemophiliacs and in others who had received transfusions, experts disagreed about whether blood and blood products could transmit the disease. During this period of great uncertainty, decision-making regarding the blood supply became increasingly difficult and fraught with risk. This volume provides a balanced inquiry into the blood safety controversy, which involves private sexual practices, personal tragedy for the victims of HIV/AIDS, and public confidence in America's blood services system. The book focuses on critical decisions as information about the danger to the blood supply emerged. The committee draws conclusions about what was doneâ€"and recommends what should be done to produce better outcomes in the face of future threats to blood safety. The committee frames its analysis around four critical area: Product treatmentâ€"Could effective methods for inactivating HIV in blood have been introduced sooner? Donor screening and referralâ€"including a review of screening to exlude high-risk individuals. Regulations and recall of contaminated bloodâ€"analyzing decisions by federal agencies and the private sector. Risk communicationâ€"examining whether infections could have been averted by better communication of the risks.

Screening Donated Blood for Transfusion-transmissible Infections

Screening Donated Blood for Transfusion-transmissible Infections
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2010
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 924154788X

"Blood transfusion is a life-saving intervention that has an essential role in patient management within health care systems. All Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) endorsed World Health Assembly resolutions WHA28.72 (1) in 1975 and WHA58.13 (2) in 2005. These commit them to the provision of adequate supplies of safe blood and blood products that are accessible to all patients who require transfusion either to save their lives or promote their continuing or improving health." --Preface.

Blood Donor Counselling

Blood Donor Counselling
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher:
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2016-06-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9789241548557

Individuals who donate their blood provide a unique and precious gift in an act of human solidarity. In order to donate blood, prospective donors should be in good health and free from any infections that can be transmitted through transfusion. Most blood donors perceive themselves to be healthy, but some are unsuitable to donate blood due to the potential risk of compromising or worsening their own health or the risk of transmission of infections to patients. Blood transfusion services (BTS) have a duty of care towards blood donors as well as to the recipients of transfusion. This duty of care extends to prospective donors who are deferred from donation--whether on a temporary or permanent basis--as well as those who donate blood and are subsequently found to have unusual or abnormal test results. BTS have a responsibility to confirm test results and provide information, counseling and support to enable these individuals to understand and respond to unexpected information about their health or risk status. Counseling is part of the spectrum of care that a BTS should be able to provide to blood donors--including referral to medical practitioners or specialist clinical services. Pre-donation counseling was recognized as one element of the strategy to reduce and, if possible, prevent the donation of blood by individuals who might be at risk for HIV and other TTI including hepatitis B and C viruses as well as to inform the donor of the donation process and testing of blood for HIV. Post-donation counseling was acknowledged to be a necessary element of donor management as an adjunct to informing donors of unusual or abnormal test results. Blood donor counseling by trained specialist staff is now considered to be a key component of the blood system in most countries with a well-developed blood transfusion service. It may be required at a number of stages in the blood donation process or following blood screening and should be available at any point at which the BTS has an interface with donors. In many countries, however, blood donor counseling is not yet available in a structured way. Blood Donor Counselling: Implementation Guidelines has therefore been developed to provide guidance to blood transfusion services that have not yet established donor counseling programs.

The Gift Relationship (Reissue)

The Gift Relationship (Reissue)
Author: Titmuss, Richard
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2019-09-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1447349601

Richard Titmuss (1907-1973) was a pioneer in the field of social administration (now social policy). In this reissued classic, listed by the New York Times as one of the 10 most important books of the year when it was first published in 1970, he compares blood donation in the US and UK, contrasting the British system of reliance on voluntary donors to the American one in which the blood supply is in the hands of for-profit enterprises, concluding that a system based on altruism is both safer and more economically efficient. Titmuss’s argument about how altruism binds societies together has proved a powerful tool in the analysis of welfare provision. His analysis is even more topical now in an age of ever changing health care policy and at a time when health and welfare systems are under sustained attack from many quarters.

Blood Book

Blood Book
Author: Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2020-04-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9780648791607

An Australian handbook to support the safe administration of blood and blood products by health professionals at the patient's side.

New Cannibal Markets

New Cannibal Markets
Author: Collectif
Publisher: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2017-12-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 2735122859

Thanks to recent progress in biotechnology, surrogacy, transplantation of organs and tissues, blood products or stem-cell and gamete banks are now widely used throughout the world. These techniques improve the health and well-being of some human beings using products or functions that come from the body of others. Growth in demand and absence of an appropriate international legal framework have led to the development of a lucrative global trade in which victims are often people living in insecure conditions who have no other ways to survive than to rent or sell part of their body. This growing market, in which parts of the human body are bought and sold with little respect for the human person, displays a kind of dehumanization that looks like a new form of slavery. This book is the result of a collective and multidisciplinary reflection organized by a group of international researchers working in the field of medicine and social sciences. It helps better understand how the emergence of new health industries may contribute to the development of a global medical tourism. It opens new avenues for reflection on technologies that are based on appropriation of parts of the body of others for health purposes, a type of practice that can be metaphorically compared to cannibalism. Are these the fi rst steps towards a proletariat of men- and women-objects considered as a reservoir of products of human origin needed to improve the health or well-being of the better-off? The book raises the issue of the uncontrolled use of medical advances that can sometimes reach the anticipations of dystopian literature and science fiction.

Giving Blood

Giving Blood
Author: Johanne Charbonneau
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2015-07-24
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1317424557

Giving Blood represents a new agenda for blood donation research. It explores the diverse historical and contemporary undercurrents that influence how blood donation takes place, and the social meanings that people attribute to the act of giving blood. Drawing from empirical studies conducted in the United States, Canada, France, Australia, China, India, Latin America and Africa, the book’s chapters turn our attention to the evolution of blood donation worldwide, examining: the impact of technology advances on blood collection practices the shifting approaches to donor recruitment and retention the governance and policy issues associated with the establishment of blood clinics the political and legal challenges of regulating blood systems. This innovative examination moves the focus from individual explanations of rates of blood donation to a social, structural explanation. It will appeal to international scholars and students working in the areas of sociology, medical anthropology, health care, public policy, socio-legal studies, comparative politics, organizational management, health and illness, the history of medicine, and public health ethics.

Blood Transfusion in Europe

Blood Transfusion in Europe
Author: Piet Hagen
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789287123770

On cover: European issues

The Effects of Behavioral Aspects on Blood Donation. An International Systematic Literature Review

The Effects of Behavioral Aspects on Blood Donation. An International Systematic Literature Review
Author: Madline Ehrentraut
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2023-09-18
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3346940187

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2023 in the subject Health - Public Health, grade: 1,3, University of Cologne (Faculty of Management, Economics, and Social Sciences), course: Department of Business Administration and Health Care Management, language: English, abstract: This thesis aims to offer a comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted factors that drive blood donation, by dissecting existing international literature and considering various research categories, thus painting a detailed landscape of the current insights in this field. Blood is a valuable and irreplaceable healthcare resource used in various medical services ranging from surgeries and childbirth to treating cancer and other blood diseases. Despite its importance, its supply precariously relies on voluntary donations. By taking a systematic international approach to the existing literature, this thesis endeavors to report and comment on its findings unbiasedly and inclusively. It borrows six categories of existing research from previous scholarship: (1) Theory of Planned Behavior, (2) prosocial motivation, (3) affective expectations, (4) donor site experience, (5) past donation behavior, and (6) donor demographics. A combination of phrases and Boolean operators was queried to various databases, and the subsequent findings were then systematically whittled down to 22 relevant works. These studies can be thought of as driven by three goals: 1) explaining what motivates the act of donation, often in a specific sample used to describe a local or national majority population, 2) understanding the motivations for repeat donation, or 3) exploring the motivations of ethnic minority populations with lower donation rates than the majority. These studies often employed the Theory of Planned Behavior and found that perceived control, external and internal was important in crafting donation intentions. Attitudes, especially those about the possible emotional results of donation, were also important. Among those considering prosocial motivations, barriers related to expected pain, fainting, or inconvenience hold potential donors back. However, some authors argued that highly motivated individuals could overcome barriers related to external control. Adverse reactions to donations are both a source of anxiety for non-donors and a reason for some donors to lapse. Affective expectations are related to those fears and experiences. Demographics have some impact, especially with women appearing more motivated to donate and more likely to express concerns about fainting. [...]