Sociodemographic and attitudinal factors to blood donation in the urban population of Dakar, Senegal

Transfusion

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2713-2720

  Duboz, Priscilla ^a   MacIa, Enguerran ^a   Cunéo, Bernard ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; BLOOD DONOR; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; SENEGAL; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLOOD DONORS; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENEGAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650032038     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2010.02750.x     Document Type: Article

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