Building sustainable blood services in developing countries

Transfusion Alternatives in Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 53-60

  Koistinen, Jukka ^a,b  

^a FINNISH RED CROSS BLOOD SERVICE   (Finland)

^b NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Blood donation (voluntary non remunerated); Blood service; Funding; National coordination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FINANCE; FUNDING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; LAW; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAFF TRAINING;

EID: 65249129218     PISSN: 12959022     EISSN: 1778428X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1778-428X.2008.00105.x     Document Type: Article

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