I finally have a professional paper published in a field that I think I may continue working in for years to come!
The prompting to do this research came from the first non-volunteer job I had out of college, which was to collect and compile revisions to the World Health Organization's Guidelines for Medical Equipment Donations. Now, a year and a half later, I have finally gotten in gear enough to publish my findings. The WHO, on the other hand, is still distributing their Guidelines from 2000 while the 2010 revisions are mired in red tape.
So despite what you might have heard, it is not entirely true that 70% of all medical equipment in the developing world is out of service.
Here's my short editorial to finally answer the question: How Much Medical Equipment is Broken in the Developing World?
(The link will take you to the abstract. To read the entire paper, click the link "Download PDF" just below the image of the journal cover)
