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Item Restricted Does money save lives? the effects of monetary assistance on the likelihood of getting a kidney transplant(2010-03) Cris, Rodanel L.; Jampac, Jeanne May P.; Desierto, DesireeKidney failure is one of the many problems we face today. In the Philippines, 10,000 people develop kidney failure a year (Danguilan, 2008}. Due to inadequate income of most kidney patients and also the lack of monetary assistance from private and public entities, a portion of this population die without ever getting medical attention. Following various literatures from both foreign and local, this paper uses months on dialysis to relate the likelihood of getting a kidney transplant as a function of total family income, total monetary assistance and family composition. From. the medical and psychosocial evaluation records of 51 indigent kidney recipients gathered by the Medical Social. Services of the National Kidney and Transplant Institute, ordinary least squares are ran to show the effects of the abovementioned variables. Results show that income and family composition are inversely proportional to the waiting time, that is, the higher the income the shorter the waiting time, whereas monetary assistance is directly proportional, that is, the higher the monetary assistance the longer the waiting time on dialysis.