Shortage of Organs

Lack of donors
1. Religion
2. Lack of awareness
  1. Lack of media coverage
  2. Lack of education
3. Planning-implementation gap
4. Misunderstanding about brain death
5. Mistrust in the medical field
6. Personal beliefs
7. Uncomfortable about the idea of their death
  1. Fear
8. Disgust
9. Costs
10. Surgery/Health concerns
11. Higher/denied life insurance
Increasing number of required organs
1. Increasing population
2. Increasing number of organ failures
  1. Increasing lifespan
  2. Obesity
  3. Heart disease
3. Increasing number of diseases that can be helped by transplantation
  1. Medical advancements
    1. Enhanced surgical procedures
    2. Better immunosuppressants
4. Transplants don't last the whole lifespan of the recepient
  1. Must be replaced
Logistics
1. Problems in the management of organ transplant activities
2. Lack of gov't policies
3. Lack of coordination between various institutions involved in the process
4. Time limit between procurement and transplantation
Long wait-times for organs
1. High death rate
2. Willing to pay exorbitantly high prices
  1. Black market
    1. Organ harvesting
    2. Transplant tourism
      1. Poor hospital conditions
        Risk of further medical complications
  2. Poorer people taken advantage of
3. High health care cost during wait times
  1. If there's state health insurance: Taxpayer burden
    1. Bad for the economy
  2. If there's no state health insurance: Huge burden for individuals

Resource summary

	Created by Amanda Gu about 9 years ago