New Zealand university students’ knowledge and attitudes to organ and tissue donation
Jon Cornwall, Cyril Schafer, Navneet Lal, Rohit DCosta, Shyamala Nada-Raja
This article looks at New Zealand young adults attitudes and knowledge on organ and tissue donation. It examines this subject relating to both their own, and loved ones, donation. NZ has a poor rate of organ donation compared to similar countries. It is an important health issue given the necessity for organ donation is increasing. There has been a lot of media interest in NZ around organ donation recently, and this study explores concepts central to these pieces - and provides facts relevant to organ donation practise, as opposed to arguments and / or speculation which are sometimes key to many media pieces.