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Developing Strategies for Sustainable Medical Equipment Maintenance in Under-Resourced Settings

Engineering technology plays a pivotal role in the delivery of health care in under-resourced countries by providing an infrastructure to improve patient outcomes. However, sustainability of these technologies is difficult in these settings oftentimes due to limited resources or training. The framew...

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Autores principales: Webber, Christina M., Martínez-Gálvez, Gabriel, Higuita, Manuela Lopera, Ben-Abraham, Ephraim I., Berry, Brent M., Porras, Maria A. Gonzalez, Aristizabal, Sara, Asp, Anders, Lujan, J. Luis, Wilson, John W.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7164383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32322537
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2584
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author Webber, Christina M.
Martínez-Gálvez, Gabriel
Higuita, Manuela Lopera
Ben-Abraham, Ephraim I.
Berry, Brent M.
Porras, Maria A. Gonzalez
Aristizabal, Sara
Asp, Anders
Lujan, J. Luis
Wilson, John W.
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Martínez-Gálvez, Gabriel
Higuita, Manuela Lopera
Ben-Abraham, Ephraim I.
Berry, Brent M.
Porras, Maria A. Gonzalez
Aristizabal, Sara
Asp, Anders
Lujan, J. Luis
Wilson, John W.
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description Engineering technology plays a pivotal role in the delivery of health care in under-resourced countries by providing an infrastructure to improve patient outcomes. However, sustainability of these technologies is difficult in these settings oftentimes due to limited resources or training. The framework presented in this editorial focuses on establishing medical and laboratory equipment sustainability in developing countries and is comprised of four steps: 1) establishing reliable in-country relationships with stakeholders, 2) identifying needs for sustainable solutions locally, 3) exploring potential solutions and assessing their effort-to-impact ratios, and 4) working with strategic partners to implement solutions with clear performance metrics. By focusing on the sustainability of donated equipment instead of the equipment itself, this method presented distinguishes itself from other philanthropic endeavors in the field by seeking to establish preventive maintenance habits that can impact clinical outcomes of a community long term. Application of this methodology is reported in the Original Research Article “A Low-Cost Humidity Control System to Protect Microscopes in a Tropical Climate” by Asp et. al.
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spelling pubmed-71643832020-04-22 Developing Strategies for Sustainable Medical Equipment Maintenance in Under-Resourced Settings Webber, Christina M. Martínez-Gálvez, Gabriel Higuita, Manuela Lopera Ben-Abraham, Ephraim I. Berry, Brent M. Porras, Maria A. Gonzalez Aristizabal, Sara Asp, Anders Lujan, J. Luis Wilson, John W. Ann Glob Health Editorial Engineering technology plays a pivotal role in the delivery of health care in under-resourced countries by providing an infrastructure to improve patient outcomes. However, sustainability of these technologies is difficult in these settings oftentimes due to limited resources or training. The framework presented in this editorial focuses on establishing medical and laboratory equipment sustainability in developing countries and is comprised of four steps: 1) establishing reliable in-country relationships with stakeholders, 2) identifying needs for sustainable solutions locally, 3) exploring potential solutions and assessing their effort-to-impact ratios, and 4) working with strategic partners to implement solutions with clear performance metrics. By focusing on the sustainability of donated equipment instead of the equipment itself, this method presented distinguishes itself from other philanthropic endeavors in the field by seeking to establish preventive maintenance habits that can impact clinical outcomes of a community long term. Application of this methodology is reported in the Original Research Article “A Low-Cost Humidity Control System to Protect Microscopes in a Tropical Climate” by Asp et. al. Ubiquity Press 2020-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7164383/ /pubmed/32322537 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2584 Text en Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Aristizabal, Sara
Asp, Anders
Lujan, J. Luis
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