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KMID : 1143420160090250487
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Public Health Weekly Report
2016 Volume.9 No. 25 p.487 ~ p.489
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World Blood Donor Day, 14 June 2016
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Kim Yi-Gyung
Choi Jun-Kil
Kim Jun-Nyun
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Abstract
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The first World Blood Donor Day was held in 2004. Later, it was designated as an annual global event by the Fifty-eighth World Health Assembly in January, 2005. World Blood Donor Day is now celebrated each year throughout the world, on 14 June, to raise awareness of the importance of blood donation and to recognize the contribution of voluntary non-remunerated blood donors in saving lives and improving health.
World Blood Donor Day has a further purpose: to create wider awareness throughout the world about the need for availability and appropriate use of safe blood and blood products, and the need for more people to make a commitment to regular voluntary non-remunerated blood donation.
The date, 14 June is the birthday of Karl Landsteiner, an Austrian biologist and physician, considered to be the “founder” of modern blood transfusion.
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