health-2019-keynote

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November 04-05, 2019 | Prague, Czech Republic

International Conference on

Health Care and

Health Management

Neuroscience and

Neurological Disorders

Joint Event

Journal of Public Health Policy and Planning | Volume 3

Notes:

rgan Transplantation benefits society, changing death

on life. Evidence suggests that transplantation medicine

might be a health guarantee for society. However, organ

shortage limits this possibility. The progress of transplantation

medicine has generated the need for novel methods and

government support to implement, without restriction, this

society’s benefit. This advance in medical practice should

lead to new health programs that should be different from

those currently offered. The transformation of death into

life, which is what organ transplants symbolize, requires the

end of a human being. Knowledge and acceptance of an

unexpected metaphor, “transforming death into life”, should

be acknowledged by health decision makers and understood

by the people. An increasing number of patients are unjustly

dying each year while waiting for a donated organ. This

reality evidences that society’s response to donation is still

inadequate and that the organ shortage dilemma is still

present.

In the analysis of the causes of this social behaviour towards

donation, it is rational to consider that social education

programmes, permanently structured under the slogan

"donation is a gift of life", have not been successful in

changing people’s feelings towards organ donation. It should

be noted that fear of death, mutilation, distrust of medical

teams, and religious uncertainty, currently suggested as the

main barriers to donation, have never been considered in the

evaluation of current educational methodologies. People's

acknowledgement of slogans such as “throughout our lives

we are all potential recipients of organs and tissues”; “the

body after death is a unique source of health for all”, and the

catchphrase “sharing the donated organs could be a social

agreement” that could potentially be useful when developing

new criteria to structure organ donation social education.

Finally, curricular organ donation education of young people

might be an important contribution to a solution to this

critical problem.

Speaker Biography

Félix Cantarovich is an associate professor of Medical Sciences Buenos

Aires at Catholic University Argentina. He is a Professor of Nephrology at

University Lyon France. He also serves as a Professor and Director Course

of Transplantology at Catholic University Argentine. He was a Former Chief

Nephrology at Dialysis Transplantation Central Hospital Cosme Argerich

Buenos Aires. He was a Consultant of Transplantation and Intensive Care at

Hôpital Necker in Paris, France. He also served as a Councillor and Chairman

of Educational Committee International Society Organ Sharing. He was a

Chairman of Scientific Committee International Congress Transplantation,

2002. He was a Secretary at Latin American and Caribbean Transplantation

Society. He is also a President of Argentine Transplantation Society.

felix.cantarovich@orange.fr

Félix Cantarovich

Argentine Catholic University, Argentina

Serious health crisis to be resolved: The organ shortage