Few people are eligible to donate blood

Finnegan, John
Bill Riley
2007-09-04

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Few people are eligible to donate blood

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Welcome to Public Health Moment from the University of Minnesota. Only 37 percent of Americans are eligible to donate blood—much fewer than previous estimates. That’s according to a study co-authored by Bill Riley, a healthcare management professor at the University of Minnesota. <clip: “What we have been able to establish is…especially at the times when it is least expected.”> Riley says that the conventional method for estimating the number of eligible blood donors used age as the only criterion. But, in reality, a number of other factors can lead to ineligibility, such as high-risk sexual behavior, chronic health conditions, and travel to foreign countries. <clip: “It’s been well known that...are protecting the donor.”> Riley collaborated on the study with the University of Minnesota Medical School researchers. With another Public Health Moment, I’m John Finnegan.

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Finnegan, John; Bill Riley. (2007). Few people are eligible to donate blood. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/257627.

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