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However, some efforts have been directed towards diversifying its economy and are showing a lowering trend in the overall unemployment rate, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
During the Great Recession Merced suffered one of the greatest property price collapses in the country and house p... | 32,500 |
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stores have entered Merced, adding over of new retail space in that time and increasing the City's sales tax receipts by over $500,000 annually.
On 6/19/2018, Merced appeared on the MSN.com portal page as one of the 50 worst cities in the USA
The economy has traditionally relied upon agribusiness a... | 32,501 |
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economies but overall retail continued to increase. No significant increase in unemployment was noted. Re-use of the former base is actively proceeding. Industrial development is increasing in the area.
Since 1992, more than of new industrial activity has started. In May 1995, Merced was selected as... | 32,502 |
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War II, the Merced County fairgrounds were the site of a temporary "assembly center" where Japanese Americans were detained after being removed from their West Coast homes under Executive Order 9066. 4,669 men, women and children from central California (with most coming from Merced County) were conf... | 32,503 |
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Intercalifornias, TUFESA and Fronteras del Norte serve Merced.
- YARTS provides scheduled service into Yosemite National Park.
- Merced County Transit, "The Bus", operates both regularly scheduled fixed route bus service and Dial-A-Ride (demand response) transportation services throughout Merced Co... | 32,504 |
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the San Joaquin Valley connecting Merced and Bakersfield will likely be the first completed. Regional Manager Thomas Tracy told the Visalia City Council that the project will be built in eight phases. The first segment, due by 2015, would stretch from Bakersfield to Merced on an initial run from San ... | 32,505 |
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is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of .
Merced is approximately southeast of San Francisco and northwest of Los Angeles.
A major groundwater plume containing the contaminant PCE was discovered in Merced in 1987. Subsequently, drilling of new wate... | 32,506 |
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of 32 °F (0 °C) or lower. The record highest temperature of 114 °F was recorded on July 24, 1902, and August 8, 1905. The record lowest temperature of 13 °F was recorded on January 13, 2007.
Most of the rainfall occurs during the winter and averages annually. There are an average of 48 days annually... | 32,507 |
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snowfall. The record 24-hour snowfall was on February 16, 1946. The most snowfall in one month was in December 1906.
# Agriculture.
Merced is ranked as the fifth-top producing county in California. In 2016, Merced County generated more than 3.4 billion dollars in total value of production. The top ... | 32,508 |
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one-hour radius, close to 100,000 students attend colleges and universities, including: University of California, Merced, California State University, Stanislaus, California State University, Fresno and the University of the Pacific. Engineering, Business, and Nursing are some of the most studied sub... | 32,509 |
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offering alternative education. Merced has one community college, Merced College, which has an enrollment of more than 10,884 students as of Spring 2017.
In May 2008, the UC Board of Regents endorsed continued planning for a UC Merced School of Medicine.
# Health.
A 2016 Community Health Assesment... | 32,510 |
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health equity with the goal of health and wellness for all county residents."
Mercy Medical Center Merced is located in Merced.
# Demographics.
## 2010.
The 2010 United States Census reported that Merced had a population of 78,959
. The population density was 3,386.4 people per square mile. (1,3... | 32,511 |
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(0.6%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 588 (0.7%) were institutionalized.
There were 24,899 households, out of which 11,484 (46.1%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 10,958 (44.0%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 4,921 (19.8%) had a female househo... | 32,512 |
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(71.6% of all households); the average family size was 3.65.
The population was spread out with 25,091 people (31.8%) under the age of 18, 10,475 people (13.3%) aged 18 to 24, 20,986 people (26.6%) aged 25 to 44, 15,484 people (19.6%) aged 45 to 64, and 6,922 people (8.8%) who were 65 years of age o... | 32,513 |
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31,690 people (40.1% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 46,188 people (58.5%) lived in rental housing units.
## 2000.
As of the census of 2000, there were 63,893 people, 20,435 households, and 14,631 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,216.7 people ... | 32,514 |
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households, out of which 42.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.2% contained married couples living together, 18.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.4% were "nonfamilies." 22.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.5% had someone living alon... | 32,515 |
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over, there were 92.3 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $30,429, and the median income for a family was $32,470. Males had a median income of $31,725 versus $24,492 for females. The per capita income for the city was $13,115. About 22.4% of families and 27.9% of the population... | 32,516 |
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like they had expected, as the land was owned by other people. They could not get high end agricultural jobs because they did not speak sufficient English and Mexican migrants already held low end agricultural jobs. As such, a great many of Merced's Hmong collected social services and Hmong gangs aro... | 32,517 |
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organization that provides social services to Hmong people, the Merced Department of Public Health's MATCH (Multidisciplinary Approach to Cross-Cultural Health) program, intending to draw Hmong patients into the health care system, a body of Hmong-speaking faculty and paraprofessionals (including col... | 32,518 |
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shifts have reduced this. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 prompted a move of some Hmong to Minnesota, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. More recently, many Hmong have gone to Alaska to work in crabbing and fishing industries that require little proficiency in English.
## Ra... | 32,519 |
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the city and county's population size.
# Government.
In the California State Legislature, Merced is in , and in .
In the United States House of Representatives, Merced is in .
# Sister cities.
- Albury, Australia
- Somoto, Nicaragua
# Notable people.
- Jerry Garvin, MLB pitcher for the Toront... | 32,520 |
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known as "Baby Peggy", writer, silent film historian and advocate for child actors
- Margaret Dingeldein, member of women's US Olympic water polo team at 2004 Athens Olympics
- Tommy Duncan, singer with Bob Wills and Texas Playboys, buried in Merced
- Marvin Eastman, mixed martial arts fighter
- ... | 32,521 |
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product team
- Philip H. Lathrop, Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated cinematographer
- Janet Leigh, actress, star of Alfred Hitchcock film "Psycho"
- Gerald Madkins, NBA player and executive
- Blas Minor, MLB pitcher
- Bill Mooneyham, MLB player for the Oakland Athletics
- Dwayne Murphy, MLB player ... | 32,522 |
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Cowboys
- Cary Stayner, serial killer
- Steven Stayner, kidnap victim
- Rowena Granice Steele (1824–1901), American performer, editor, publisher
- Joyce Sumbi (1935-2010), African-American librarian
- Thad Tillotson, MLB player for the New York Yankees
- Rick Williams, MLB pitcher for the Houst... | 32,523 |
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Sumbi (1935-2010), African-American librarian
- Thad Tillotson, MLB player for the New York Yankees
- Rick Williams, MLB pitcher for the Houston Astros
# Sports.
- UC Merced Bobcats: softball and other athletic programs. Merced High School and Golden Valley High School sponsor athletics as well.
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Organ donation
Organ donation is when a person allows an organ of their own to be removed and transplanted to another person, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive or dead with the assent of the next of kin.
Donation may be for research or, more commonly, healthy transplantable organs and... | 32,525 |
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died.
In 2017 Spain had the highest donor rate in the world at 46.9 per million people, followed by Portugal (34.0 per million), Belgium (33.6 per million), Croatia (33.0 per million) and the US (32.0 per million).
As of February 2, 2019, there were 120,000 people waiting for life-saving organ transpla... | 32,526 |
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extensive testing before the donation, including psychological evaluation to determine whether the would-be donor understands and consents to the donation. On the day of the donation, the donor and the recipient arrive at the hospital, just like they would for any other major surgery. For dead donors, th... | 32,527 |
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The verification of death is normally done by a neurologist (a physician specializing in brain function) that is not involved in the previous attempts to save the patient's life. This physician has nothing to do with the transplantation process. Verification of death is often done multiple times, to prev... | 32,528 |
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are transported as quickly as possible to the recipient, for immediate transplantation. Most organs only survive outside the body for a few hours, so recipients in the same region are usually chosen. In the case of a dead donor, after the organs are removed, the body is normally restored to as normal an ... | 32,529 |
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LV EF (%) 50
- Hgb 10 mg/dL
The lungs are highly vulnerable to injury and thus the most difficult to preserve, with only 15–25% of donated organs utilized. Suggested management includes ARDS goals; low tidal volume ventilation (6–8 mL/kg), low FiO, and relatively high PEEP. PaO ratio should be 300 i... | 32,530 |
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or Medicine in 1990 for advances in organ transplantation.
The youngest organ donor was a baby with anencephaly, born in 2015, who lived for only 100 minutes and donated his kidneys to an adult with renal failure. The oldest known organ donor was a 107-year-old Scottish woman, whose corneas were donated... | 32,531 |
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a novel way to transplant human fetal kidneys into anephric rats to overcome a significant obstacle in impeding human fetal organ transplantations. The human fetal kidneys demonstrated both growth and function within the rats.
# Brain donation.
Because there are no known cures for many brain disorders,... | 32,532 |
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in early 2017
# Legislation and global perspectives.
The laws of different countries allow potential donors to permit or refuse donation, or give this choice to relatives. The frequency of donations varies among countries.
## Consent process.
The term consent is typically defined as a subject adherin... | 32,533 |
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depending on the country. The second consent process is presumed consent, which does not need direct consent from the donor or the next of kin. Presumed consent assumes that donation would have been permitted by the potential donor if permission was pursued. Of possible donors an estimated twenty-five pe... | 32,534 |
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consent must be determined for the individual's disposition of their remains following death. There are two main methods for determining voluntary consent: "opt in" (only those who have given explicit consent are donors) and "opt out" (anyone who has not refused consent to donate is a donor). In terms of... | 32,535 |
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a country with a very similar culture and economic development, but which uses an opt-out system, has a consent rate of 99.98%.
Opt-out consent, otherwise known as "deemed" consent, support refers to the notion that the majority of people support organ donation, but only a small percentage of the popula... | 32,536 |
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have adopted a "soft opt-out" consent, meaning if a citizen has not clearly made a decision to register, then they will be treated as a registered citizen and participate in the organ donation process. Likewise, opt-in consent refers to the consent process of only those who are registered to participate ... | 32,537 |
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to become an organ donor heavily depends on the attitude of the individual; those with a positive outlook might feel a sense of altruism towards organ donation, while others may have a more negative perspective, such as not trusting doctors to work as hard to save the lives of registered organ donors. So... | 32,538 |
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the United States still has a 95 percent organ donation approval rate. This level of nationwide acceptance may foster an environment where moving to a policy of presumed consent may help solve some of the organ shortage problem, where individuals are assumed to be willing organ donors unless they documen... | 32,539 |
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in organ donation. This policy is currently being consulted on by Department of Health and Social Care. In terms of effective organ donations, in some systems like Australia (14.9 donors per million, 337 donors in 2011), family members are required to give consent or refusal, or may veto a potential reco... | 32,540 |
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Spain's legislative approach is likely not the primary reason for the country's success in increasing the donor rates, starting in the 1990s. Looking to the example of Spain, which has successfully adopted the presumed consent donation system, intensive care units (ICUs) must be equipped with enough doct... | 32,541 |
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crucial to the success of opt-out or presumed consent donation systems. In a study done to determine if health policy change to a presumed consent or opt-out system would help to increase donors, an increase of 20 to 30 percent was seen among countries who changed their policies from some type of opt-in ... | 32,542 |
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implemented in Israel, it allows an individual in need of an organ to move up the recipient list. Moving up the list is contingent on the individual opting-in prior to their need for an organ donation. The policy applies nonmedical criteria when allowing the individual who has previously registered as an... | 32,543 |
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Argentina.
On November 30, 2005, the Congress introduced an opt-out policy on organ donation, where all people over 18 years of age will be organ donors unless they or their family state their negative. The law was promulgated on December 22, 2005 as "Law 26,066".
On July 4, 2018 the Congress passed a ... | 32,544 |
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card and the ensuing discussions have however eased the process.
## Canada.
Nova Scotia, Canada is the first jurisdiction in North America to introduce an automatic organ donation program unless residents opt out. The Human Organ and Tissue Act was introduced on April 2 2019. With the new legislation, ... | 32,545 |
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Congress passed the "Law 1805", which introduced an opt-out policy on organ donation where all people will be organ donors unless they state their negative. The law came into force on February 4, 2017.
## Europe.
Within the European Union, organ donation is regulated by member states. As of 2010, 24 Eu... | 32,546 |
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death can use the Organ Donation Register, a national database. The government of Wales became the first constituent country in the UK to adopt presumed consent in July 2013. The opt-out organ donation scheme in Wales went live on December 1, 2015 and is expected to increase the amount of donors by 25%. ... | 32,547 |
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for an initiative to introduce an EU organ donor card in order to foster organ donation in Europe.
Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) has become one of the most active organ donor hospitals in all of Germany, which otherwise has one of the lowest organ donation participation rates in the Eurotrans... | 32,548 |
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who died at LRMC (roughly half of the total number who died there) donated a total of 142 organs between 2005 and 2010. In 2010 alone, 10 of the 12 American service members who died at LRMC were donors, donating a total of 45 organs. Of the 205 hospitals in the DSO's central region—which includes the lar... | 32,549 |
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(ODR). If the subject is incapable of providing consent, and is not on the ODR, then an acting representative, such as a legal guardian or family member can give legal consent for organ donation of the subject, along with a presiding witness, according to the Human Tissue Authority Code of Practice. Cons... | 32,550 |
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countries such as U.S. and Germany, people must explicitly "opt in" if they want to donate their organs when they die. In these "opt-in countries," fewer than 15% of people donate their organs at death."
In May 2017, Ireland began the process of introducing an "opt-out" system for organ donation. Minist... | 32,551 |
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in a patient's best interest", when the patient is unable to do so.
## India.
India has a fairly well developed corneal donation programme; however, donation after brain death has been relatively slow to take off. Most of the transplants done in India are living related or unrelated transplants. To cur... | 32,552 |
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organs were retrieved from 310 multi-organ donors resulting in a national organ donation rate of 0.26 per million population(Table 2).
- ODR (pmp) – Organ Donation Rate (per million population)
In the year 2000 through the efforts of an NGO called MOHAN Foundation state of Tamil Nadu started an organ s... | 32,553 |
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however, the numbers of deceased donation happening in these states were not sufficient to make much impact.In 2008, the Government of Tamil Nadu put together government orders laying down procedures and guidelines for deceased organ donation and transplantation in the state. These brought in almost thir... | 32,554 |
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Most of the deceased donation programmes have been developed in southern states of India. The various such programmes are as follows-
In the year 2012 besides Tamil Nadu other southern states too did deceased donation transplants more frequently. An online organ sharing registry for deceased donation an... | 32,555 |
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selling is legally banned in Asia. Numerous studies have documented that organ vendors have a poor "quality of life" (QOL) following kidney donation. However, a study done by Vemuru reddy "et al" shows a significant improvement in Quality of life contrary to the earlier belief. Live related renal donors ... | 32,556 |
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for organ donation. [54] It is also the only country where organ trade is legal. The way their system works is, if a patient does not have a living relative or who are not assigned an organ from a deceased donor, apply to the nonprofit Dialysis and Transplant Patients Association (Datpa). The association... | 32,557 |
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or any ‘middleman’ to receive payment. Charity donations are made to those donors whose recipients are unable to pay. The Iranian system began in 1988 and eliminated the shortage of kidneys by 1999. Within the first year of the establishment of this system, the number of transplants had almost doubled; n... | 32,558 |
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medical need, preference will be given to the one that had signed an organ donation card. (This policy was nicknamed "Don't give, don't get".) Organ donation in Israel increased after 2008.
## Japan.
The rate of organ donation in Japan is significantly lower than in Western countries. This is attribute... | 32,559 |
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participate in altruistic organ donation only. In 2013 there were 3 cases of liver donation by live donors and 58 cases of kidney donation by live donors. New Zealand has low rates of live donation, which could be due to the fact that it is illegal to pay someone for their organs. The Human Tissue Act 20... | 32,560 |
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that would allow for donation. The question is required to be answered for the application to be processed, meaning that the individual must answer yes or no, and does not have the option of leaving it unanswered. However, the answer given on the drivers license does not constitute informed consent, beca... | 32,561 |
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donation register where people can give informed consent to organ donations and clearly state their legally binding wishes. However, the bill did not pass, and there was condemnation of the bill from some doctors, who said that even if a person had given express consent for organ donation to take place, ... | 32,562 |
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no one view on organ donation is universally accepted in the Maori population. They are, however, less likely to accept a kidney transplant than other New Zealanders, despite being overrepresented in the population receiving dialysis.
## Sri Lanka.
Organ donation in Sri Lanka was ratified by the Human ... | 32,563 |
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are on the U.S. government waiting list. This crisis within the United States is growing rapidly because on average there are only 30,000 transplants performed each year. More than 8,000 people die each year from lack of a donor organ, an average of 22 people a day. Between the years 1988 and 2006 the nu... | 32,564 |
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examiners to determine if organs and tissues of cadavers could be donated. By the 1980s, several states adopted different laws that allowed only certain tissues or organs to be retrieved and donated, some allowed all, and some did not allow any without consent of the family. In 2006 when the UAGA was rev... | 32,565 |
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University of Maryland School of Medicine developed cancerous or benign tumors which had to be removed. The head surgeon, Dr. Michael Phelan, explained that "the ongoing shortage of organs from deceased donors, and the high risk of dying while waiting for a transplant, prompted five donors and recipients... | 32,566 |
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donors unless they chose to opt out or are excluded. Scotland is also expected to move to an opt-our organ donor register.
The British-owned island of Jersey moved to an opt-out register on 1 July 2019.
## Donor Leave Laws.
In addition to their sick and annual leave, federal executive agency employees... | 32,567 |
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Louisiana, Minnesota, and Oregon) require certain private employers to provide paid leave for employees for organ or bone marrow donation, and seven others (Arkansas, Connecticut, Maine, Nebraska, New York, South Carolina, and West Virginia) either require employers to provide unpaid leave, or encourage ... | 32,568 |
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of leave in a 12-month period.
## Tax incentives.
Nineteen US states and the District of Columbia provide tax incentives for organ donation. The most generous state tax incentive is Utah's tax credit, which covers up to $10,000 of unreimbursed expenses (travel, lodging, lost wages, and medical expenses... | 32,569 |
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New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Wisconsin) have a tax deduction for up to $10,000 of unreimbursed costs, and Kansas and Virginia offer a tax deduction for up to $5,000 of unreimbursed costs.
States have focused their tax incentives on unreimbursed costs associated wi... | 32,570 |
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organ," from its definition of "valuable consideration."
While offering income tax deductions has been the preferred method of providing tax incentives, some commentators have expressed concern that these incentives provide disproportionate benefits to wealthier donors. Tax credits, on the other hand, a... | 32,571 |
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potential donors, and charitable deductions for the donation of blood or organs.
## Other financial incentives.
As stated above, under the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, granting monetary incentives for organ donation is illegal in the United States. However, there has been some discussion abou... | 32,572 |
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professionals occurs across borders and involves organ trafficking or transplant commercialism. Poor and underserved populations in underdeveloped countries are especially vulnerable to the negative consequences of transplant tourism because they have become a major source of organs for the 'transplant t... | 32,573 |
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at least nineteen families that have signed up for the benefit. Due to investigation of the program, however, there has been some concern whether the money collected is being used to assist families. Some organizations, such as the National Kidney Foundation, oppose financial incentives associated with o... | 32,574 |
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that financial incentives, such as this Pennsylvania statute, diminish human dignity.
# Bioethical issues.
## Deontological.
Deontological issues are issues about whether a person has an ethical duty or responsibility to take an action. Nearly all scholars and societies around the world agree that vol... | 32,575 |
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organ donation on religious grounds. Issues surrounding patient autonomy, living wills, and guardianship make it nearly impossible for involuntary organ donation to occur.
From the standpoint of deontological ethics, the primary issues surrounding the morality of organ donation are semantic in nature. T... | 32,576 |
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to produce organs with a genotype identical to the recipient is a controversial topic, especially considering the possibility for an entire person to be brought into being for the express purpose of being destroyed for organ procurement. While the benefit of such a cloned organ would be a zero-percent ch... | 32,577 |
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bodies, promises to eliminate many of the ethical issues, while creating many of its own. While xenotransplantation promises to increase the supply of organs considerably, the threat of organ transplant rejection and the risk of xenozoonosis, coupled with general anathema to the idea, decreases the funct... | 32,578 |
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organs are typically well-off, it would appear that there is an imbalance in the trade. In many cases, those in need of organs are put on waiting lists for "legal" organs for indeterminate lengths of time — many die while still on a waiting list.
Organ donation is fast becoming an important bioethical i... | 32,579 |
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are exploiting those who are desperate enough to sell their organs. Many suggest this results in a growing inequality of status between the rich and the poor. On the other hand, are those who contend that the desperate should be allowed to sell their organs and that preventing them from doing so is merel... | 32,580 |
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in a period of five years following the procedure have shown extreme regret in a majority of the donors, who said that given the chance to repeat the procedure, they would not. Additionally, many study participants reported a decided worsening of economic condition following the procedure. These studies ... | 32,581 |
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could prevent them. Opponents say that such a market would encourage criminals by making it easier for them to claim that their stolen organs were legal.
Legalization of the organ trade carries with it its own sense of justice as well. Continuing black-market trade creates further disparity on the deman... | 32,582 |
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hospitals or "back-alleys", even more risky. Yet, if the operations in question can be made safe, there is little threat to the donor.
- "Financial exploitation" suggests that the donor (especially in the Indian subcontinent and Africa) are not paid enough. Commonly, accounts from persons who have sold ... | 32,583 |
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denied their promised pay.
"The New Cannibalism" is a phrase coined by anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes in 1998 for an article written for The New Internationalist. Her argument was that the actual exploitation is an ethical failing, a human exploitation; a perception of the poor as organ sources whi... | 32,584 |
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advantage of arrangements where funeral costs are reduced or eliminated.
## Brain death versus cardiac death.
Brain death may result in legal death, but still with the heart beating and with mechanical ventilation, keeping all other vital organs alive and functional for a certain period of time. Given ... | 32,585 |
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certain length of time. This may depend on factors such as how well the patient is maintained, any comorbidities, the skill of the healthcare teams and the quality their facilities. A major point of contention is whether transplantation should be allowed at all if the patient is not yet fully biologicall... | 32,586 |
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– see organ transplantation in Japan. In some nations such as Belgium, Poland, Portugal, Spain and France, everyone is automatically an organ donor, although some jurisdictions, such as Singapore, Portugal, Poland, New Zealand, and Netherlands, allow opting out of the system. Elsewhere, consent from fami... | 32,587 |
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irreversible cessation of the function of either the brain or the heart and lungs, the 21st century has seen an order-of-magnitude increase of donation following cardiac death. In 1995, only one out of 100 dead donors in the nation gave their organs following the declaration of cardiac death. That figure... | 32,588 |
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Gender Inequality.
The majority of organ donors are women. For example, in the United States, 62% of kidney donors and 53% of liver donors are women. In India, women constitute 74% of kidney donors and 60.5% of liver donors. Additionally, the number of female organ recipients is conspicuously lower than... | 32,589 |
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of organ donation. Brazil switched to an opt-out system and ultimately had to withdraw it because it further alienated patients who already distrusted the country's medical system. Adequate funding, strong political will to see transplant outcomes improve, and the existence of specialized training, care ... | 32,590 |
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sold, quality and safety are high, but supply is not adequate to the demand. Where organs can be purchased, the supply increases.
Healthy humans have two kidneys, a redundancy that enables living donors ("inter vivos") to give a kidney to someone who needs it. The most common transplants are to close re... | 32,591 |
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controversial practice, as some scholars believe it undermines the traditional list-based allocation system.
The National Transplant Organization of Spain is one of the most successful in the world (Spain has been the world leader in organ donation for decades), but it still cannot meet the demand, as 1... | 32,592 |
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ask the family for permission, making it very similar in practice to the United States system.
In the overwhelming majority of cases, organ donation is not possible for reasons of recipient safety, match failures, or organ condition. Even in Spain, which has the highest organ donation rate in the world,... | 32,593 |
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and are equally eligible for organ transplants along with the general population. A 1976 U.S. Supreme Court case ruled that withholding health care from prisoners constituted "cruel and unusual punishment". United Network for Organ Sharing, the organization that coordinates available organs with recipien... | 32,594 |
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with dialysis and other life-extending treatments required by the prisoner with the failing organ. For example, the estimated cost of a kidney transplant is about $111,000. A prisoner's dialysis treatments are estimated to cost a prison $120,000 per year.
Because donor organs are in short supply, there ... | 32,595 |
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it would be necessary "to reform our justice system to minimize the chance of an innocent person being wrongly convicted of a violent crime and thus being denied an organ transplant"
Prisons typically do not allow inmates to donate organs to anyone but immediate family members. There is no law against p... | 32,596 |
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with modern testing advances to more safely rule out infectious disease and by ensuring that there are no incentives offered to participate, some have argued that prisoners can now voluntarily consent to organ donation just as they can now consent to medical procedures in general. With careful safeguards... | 32,597 |
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of mid-2012, over 10,000 inmates had signed up in that one county alone.
# Religious viewpoints.
There are several different religions that have different perspectives. Islam has a conflicting view regarding the issue, with half believing that it is against the religion. Muslims are commanded to seek m... | 32,598 |
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("i.e.", because of its life-saving capabilities) or deontological grounds ("e.g.", the right of an individual believer to make his or her own decision). Most religions, among them the Roman Catholic Church, support organ donation on the grounds that it constitutes an act of charity and provides a means ... | 32,599 |
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