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World Blood Donor Day – 14th June 2021

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Every year countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day on 14th June.

The aim of the day is to raise global awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products for transfusion and of the critical contribution voluntary, unpaid blood donors make to national health systems. Such campaigns also provide the opportunity to call to action to governments and national health authorities to provide adequate resources and put into place systems and infrastructures to increase the collection of blood from voluntary, non-remunerated blood donors.

2021’s campaign slogan is “Give blood and keep the world beating”. The message highlights the essential contribution blood donors make to keeping the world pulsating by saving lives and improving others’ health. It reinforces the global call for more people all over the world to donate blood regularly and contribute to better health.

For more information surrounding blood donors and the donation process, please visit the World Health Organisation and NHS Blood donation websites:

https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2021/06/14/default-calendar/world-blood-donor-day-2021

https://www.blood.co.uk/

 

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES

For anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of and supporting those who are donate blood or suffer from a condition which requires blood donations, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.

BOOKS:

  • Haematology / Moore, Gary.; Knight, Gavin; Blann, Andrew D, 2016 2nd ed [Oxford ; Oxford University Press]

JOURNALS:

  • Blood / Washington: The American Society of Hematology. [Available in print 1995 – Feb 2021; as a Keele ejournal 1998 onwards; and as a NHS ejournal 1946 onwards].
  • Blood Reviews / London : Elsevier Science Ltd. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1995 onwards; and as a NHS ejournal 2007 onwards].
  • Blood Pressure / Oslo, Norway : Scandinavian University Press. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 1998 onwards with 18 months embargo].
  • Journal of Blood Medicine / New York, NY : Hindawi Pub. Corp [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2010 onwards].
  • Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation / Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier Inc. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1998 onwards; and as a NHS ejournal 2007 onwards].
  • Blood and Lymphatic Cancer : Targets and Therapy / Auckland, N.Z. : Dove Medical Press [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2011 onwards].
  • Transfusion medicine / Oxford, England : Blackwell Scientific Publications. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1997 onwards; and as a NHS ejournal 1998 onwards with 1 year embargo].
Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

  • Masser, Barbara M ; Hyde, Melissa K ; Ferguson, Eamonn, “Exploring predictors of Australian community members' blood donation intentions and blood donation–related behavior during the COVID‐19 pandemic”, Transfusion, 2020-12, Vol.60 (12), p.2907-2917. [Available via Keele ejournals].
  • Gammon, Richard R ; Prichard, Alicia Bellido et al, “The effect of COVID‐19 on blood donation habits”, Transfusion, 2021-04, Vol.61 (4), p.1134-1140. [Available via Keele ejournals].
  • Choi M, Heo JY, Shin DY et al, “Similar transplant outcomes between haploidentical and unrelated donors after reduced-intensity conditioning with busulfan, fludarabine, and anti-thymocyte globulin in patients with acute leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome.”, Blood Research, Mar 2020, Vol. 55 (1), p.27-34. [Available via NHS ejournals].
  • Dejene M, Tefera A, Dires A, “Low Blood Donation Practice of Health Sciences College Students in Northeast Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study”, Journal of Blood Medicine, 2021, Vol 12 p.43-51. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Goodnough, Lawrence T; Levy, Jerrold H et al, “Concepts of blood transfusion in adults”, The Lancet, 2013 Vol.381 (9880), p.1845-1854. [Available in print, and via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Kato, So, MD ; Chikuda, Hirotaka, MD, PhD et al, “Risk of infectious complications associated with blood transfusion in elective spinal surgery—a propensity score matched analysis”, The Spine Journal, 2016 Vol.16 (1), p.55-60. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Dunkley, Ebony, “Blood donation: I'm there”, British journal of nursing, 2017 Vol.26 (11) p.586-586. [Available via Keele ejournals].
  • Joshi D, Meakin R., “Views and attitudes towards blood donation: a qualitative investigation of Indian non-donors living in England.”, BMJ Open. 2017, Oct 22, Vol. 7(10):e018279. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018279. Open access article.
  • McVittie C, Harris L, Tiliopoulos N,. "I intend to donate but ...": non-donors' views of blood donation in the UK.”, Psychology Health and Medicine, 2006, February, Vol.11(1), pp.1-6. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].

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