Organ Donation Awareness: Rethinking Media Campaigns

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1 Private Family Practice Unit in Heraklion, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

2 School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

3 Primary Health Care Centre of Kissamos, Chania, Crete, Greece

4 Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

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Dear Editor,

Over the last 10 years, public awareness campaigns in organ donation have yielded mixed results, indicating a growing need for culturally-tailored and issue-targeted media campaigns... (Read more...)

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International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Volume 7, Issue 12
December 2018
Pages 1165-1166

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  • Receive Date: 29 June 2018
  • Revise Date: 28 August 2018
  • Accept Date: 28 August 2018
  • First Publish Date: 01 December 2018

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