Effectiveness of medical equipment donations to improve health systems: how much medical equipment is broken in the developing world?
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0140-0118,1741-0444
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-011-0786-3