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Kim and KIM: Legislative Issues Regarding Transplant Act
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J Korean Soc Transplant 2017;31(2):68-74.

Published online: 19 January 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4285/jkstn.2017.31.2.68

Legislative Issues Regarding Transplant Act

Hwi Won Kim, Ph.D.1, Hyeon cheol KIM, Ph.D.2,

1Department of Social Studies Education, College of Education, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

2School of Law, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

Corresponding author: Hyeon cheol KIM School of Law, Ewha Womans University, 52, Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03760, Korea Tel: 82-2-3277-4481, Fax: 82-2-3277-2848 E-mail: phlaw@ewha.ac.kr

Received 16 June 2017       Accepted 20 June 2017

Copyright © the Korean Society for Transplantation, 2017

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

The Korean Transplant Act has been revised five times since 1999, and each revision has resulted in a slight donation rate increased; however, the organ shortage had not been solved. As a result, further revision of the Transplant Act is needed. The current focuses solely on efficiency for transplantation. Therefore, this study suggests a paradigm shift in the revision of the act through the virtuous cycle for activating donation; namely, from an efficiency-based transplant system to a donor-centered transplant system.

Keywords: Organ and tissue, Donation, Transplantation, Procurement, Government regulation, Revision of the Transplant Act, Donor-centered system, Efficiency-based system, Virtuous cycle for activating donation

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Fig. 1.
Procurement process flow chart. Reprinted from Fig. 2-8-5 of reference [2].
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Fig. 2.
Organ donation rate following brain death. Reprinted from Fig. 2-2-2 of reference [4].
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Fig. 3.
Virtuous cycle for activating donation. Adapted from reference [8].
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