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Decision solution, data manipulation and trust: The (un-)willingness to donate organs in Germany in critical times

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In 2011 and 2012 a change of rules and a data-manipulation scandal focused German public attention on organ donation. This increased citizens’ background knowledge as well as their willingness to respond to surveys. The present study is an effort to seize this research opportunity and to create evidence on which policy recommendations can be conceivably based. It uses data from two major representative surveys from 2011 to 2012 to address four central questions: Which characteristics, experiences and attitudes correlate with the written or unwritten willingness of individuals to donate (WTD) their own organs post-mortem? How has the WTD changed over time? To what extent does the WTD depend on normative trust? Which factors correlate with trust?

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  • Schwettmann, Lars, 2015. "Decision solution, data manipulation and trust: The (un-)willingness to donate organs in Germany in critical times," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 119(7), pages 980-989.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:hepoli:v:119:y:2015:i:7:p:980-989
    DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2015.01.017
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