Tissue and organ donation and transplantation in Iran

Goodarzi, Parisa; Aghayan, Hamid Reza; Larijani, Bagher; Rafiee, Alireza Baradaran; Falahzadeh, Khadijeh; Sahebjam, Mehrnaz; Ghaderi, Firoozeh; Arjmand, Babak

doi:10.1007/s10561-014-9473-6

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“…As already described for organs and other tissues, 13 religious beliefs seem to influence cornea donation, although we did not analyze confounding socioeconomic and cultural factors. Lastly, as with organ donation, 14 an opt-out system promotes donation.…”

Section: Less Than 1 Million Inhabitantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Survey of Corneal Transplantation and Eye Banking

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Section: Less Than 1 Million Inhabitantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Survey of Corneal Transplantation and Eye Banking

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“…Goodzari highlights some of the challenges that as a Muslim country, Iran has encountered in developing an altruistic deceased donation programme. 12 Whilst reluctance to participate in altruistic deceased donation has been based upon religious uncertainty requiring religious scholars' permission, it was only in the year 2000, that the Organ Transplant and Brain Death Act 2000 was approved by parliament to support the concept of neurological death legally, following previous failures to enact it. 13 This legislation allows legal diagnosis of death by neurological criteria which would enable an altruistic deceased organ donation programme to further develop.…”

Section: Paid Donation Would Reduce Altruistic Donationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…10 Unlike the United Kingdom, Iran is still only in its infancy in developing a deceased organ donation programme; in 2016, it still relied on living kidney donors to generate 43% of all kidney donors in Iran. 11 Goodarzi 12 highlights some of the religious challenges that as a Muslim country, Iran has encountered. Religious scholars permission has had an essential role towards considerable developments in organ and tissue donation in Iran, some believing that the spiritual law of organ donation as within a fatwa, is superior to the law.…”

Section: Organ Donation In Iranmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the UK in 2017 despite performing a record number life saving transplants, 457 people died whilst waiting for a lifesaving transplant. 12 Despite improvements in the last few years in organ donation rates in the UK as a result of the implementation of the Organ Donation Taskforce recommendations, 3 organ shortage remains a problem in the UK and globally.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Radical actions to address UK organ shortage, enacting Iran’s paid donation programme: A discussion paper

Timmins

Sque

2019

Nurs Ethics

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Globally there is a shortage of organs available for transplant resulting in thousands of lives lost as a result. Recently in the United Kingdom 457 people died as a result of organ shortage in just 1 year. 1 NHS Blood and Transplant suggest national debates to test public attitudes to radical actions to increase organ donation should be considered in addressing organ shortage. The selling of organs for transplant in the United Kingdom is prohibited under the Human Tissue Act 2004. This discussion paper considers five ethical objections raised in the United Kingdom to paid donation and discusses how these objections are addressed within the only legal and regulated paid living unrelated renal donation programme in the world in Iran, where its kidney transplant list was eliminated within 2 years of its commencement. This article discusses whether paid living unrelated donation in Iran increases riskier donations and reduced altruistic donation as opponents of paid donation claim. The paper debates whether objections to paid donation based upon commodification arguments only oppose enabling financial ends, even if these ends enable beneficent acts. Discussions in relation to whether valid consent can be given by the donor will take place and will also debate the objection that donors will be coerced and exploited by a paid model. This article suggests that exploitation of the paid donor within the Iranian model exists within the legally permitted framework. However, paid living kidney donation should be discussed further and other models of paid donation considered in the United Kingdom as a radical means of increasing donation.

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“…The demand for organ donation and transplantation is rapidly increasing in many countries all over the world and in Turkey owing to the increasing incidence of end-stage failure of many vital organs, while the supply of organs from donors remains limited to meet the increasing demand (Abouna, 2008;Goodarzi et al, 2015;Tarhan, Dalar, Yildirimoglu, Sayar, & Altin, 2014). As a result, the number of people on transplant waiting lists and the wait time for receiving an organ is also rising rapidly.…”

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Pre-service Science Teachers’ Knowledge, Practices and Behaviors about Organ Donation and Transplantation

Doğan

Doğan²

2015

IJE

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There is a clear need that every individual in a society should be well informed about the organ donation and transplantation issue to contribute to the efforts to increase low donation rates. Science teachers have a crucial role in increasing young pupils' knowledge and awareness of organ donation by providing them with the necessary scientific information. Therefore, the present research examined the knowledge, practices and behaviors of pre-service science teachers regarding organ donation and transplantation, to help them to be better prepared science teachers. A total of 265 participants from two universities in Turkey responded to an organ donation and transplantation questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, t-test and chi-square test were used in the data analyses. While 92.8% of participants supported organ donation regardless of their year of study, only 1.1% declared that they were registered to be a donor. Pre-service science teachers in this study showed generally a low level of knowledge regardless of their year of study and gender. Despite having a low level of knowledge regarding organ donation and transplantation, they were generally willing to donate their own organs. These findings raised questions about the extent to which pre-service science teachers have the necessary knowledge, practices and behaviors to support student learning when they become real teachers. The implications of these findings for science teacher education in Turkey was also addressed.

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Tissue and organ donation and transplantation in Iran

Cited by 12 publications

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Global Survey of Corneal Transplantation and Eye Banking

Global Survey of Corneal Transplantation and Eye Banking

Radical actions to address UK organ shortage, enacting Iran’s paid donation programme: A discussion paper

Pre-service Science Teachers’ Knowledge, Practices and Behaviors about Organ Donation and Transplantation

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