Does organ donation legislation affect individuals' willingness to donate their own or their relative's organs? Evidence from European Union survey data

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Mossialos, Elias ^a   Costa Font, Joan ^a   Rudisill, Caroline ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; ORGAN DONOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DONOR; EUROPE; FAMILY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; EUROPE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 42149182072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-48     Document Type: Article

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