[Blood donation in foreign populations in Marseille].
Blood donations by populations from the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa are a public health necessity for reasons of genetic polymorphism. This article aims to determine whether blood donors' social characteristics ? i.e. greater socio-economic integration and a strong sense of citizenship ? constitute deterrents to blood donation among foreign populations. Results show that donors from the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa are not better integrated than non-donors from the same areas. However, blood donors express a significantly greater sense of citizenship than non-donors. Donors from the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa feel a greater sense of citizenship than non-donors from the same areas. The study of blood donation in these categories of population has two major implications. In biological terms, blood donation by foreign populations constitutes a response to transfusion needs. In cultural terms, blood donation is used by populations from the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa as an active means of expressing their sense of citizenship.
Duboz
Priscilla
P
UMI 3139, Environment, Santé, Societés (UCAD, CNRS, Université de Bamako, CNRS, Laboratoire de physiololgie exploratoire et fontionnelle- Faculté de Médecine, Université Cheikh Anta Diop- Dakar, Sénégal.
Boëtsch
Gilles
G
Cunéo
Bernard
B
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017954:Africa South of the Sahara / Q000208:ethnology; D000352:Africa, Northern / Q000208:ethnology; D000368:Aged; D001782:Blood Donors / Q000523:psychology*; D003469:Culture; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation