PROF. KEREN LADIN DISCUSSES RECENTLY PUBLISHED STUDY ABOUT ORGAN DONOR DESIGNATI

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Q&A: PROFESSOR KEREN LADIN DISCUSSES RECENTLY PUBLISHED STUDY ABOUT ORGAN DONOR DESIGNATION

BY CONSTANTINOS ANGELAKIS

Keren Ladin, assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy and Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, recently published a study in the “Milbank Quarterly,” a health and public policy journal. Ladin, who has been researching organ donations since 2007,  finds that social capital — which, according to the Harvard Kennedy School, refers to the “specific benefits that flow from the trust, reciprocity, information and cooperation associated with social networks [or who people know]” — can account for over half of organ donation designations. This new insight shifts the focus from individual characteristics to community interaction as the basis for analyzing such altruistic decisions.
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