Effective Public Health Policy in Organ Donation: Lessons from a Universal Public Health System in Brazil

This book shows how a successful public health policy designed to foster the culture of brain death diagnosis and improve the interaction between Organ Procurement Organizations and Intra-Hospital Organ and Tissue Donation Committees for Transplants led the Brazilian state of Paraná to reach one of the highest rates of effective organ donors per million population in the world.

Brazil has the largest public transplant system in the world, and each of the country’s 26 states is responsible ...