What population factors influence the decision to donate blood?

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 9-12

  Hollingsworth, Bruce ^a   Wildman, John ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood; Donation; Ethnicity; Individual characteristics; Socioeconomics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BLOOD DONORS; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 1842815855     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0958-7578.2004.00473.x     Document Type: Article

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