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| fixed length control field |
02775cam a2200313 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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9290360437 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9290360437 |
| 035 ## - |
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(Sirsi) 9290360437 |
| 060 ## - NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
TP 248.25 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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| fixed length control field |
901217s1990 1 0 eng |
| 111 2# - MAIN ENTRY--MEETING NAME |
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| Meeting name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
CIOMS Round Table Conference |
| Number of part/section/meeting |
(23rd: |
| Date of meeting |
Geneva: |
| Location of meeting |
1989) |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Health technology transfer : |
| Remainder of title |
whose responsibility? / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
XXIIIrd CIOMS Round Table Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 2-3 November 1989 ; organized jointly with the World Health Organization ; edited by Z. Bankowski and G. L. Ada. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Geneva : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
CIOMS, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
1990. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
165 p. |
| 520 3# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Records presentations from an international conference convened to address the many complex problems raised when health technology is exported to developing countries. Although major emphasis is place on the problems created by expensive, highly sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic devices, the book also considers the need to transfer the fundamental benefits afforded by modern drugs and embodied in the local capacity to operate, maintain, and repair medical equipment. Throughout the book, an effort is made to alert both the providers and the recipients of health technology to the many factors that can doom such transfers to failure and cause setbacks rather than advances in a countrys health system. The book has three main parts. The first reviews several spectacular new technologies that have recently become available and examines their place in the health care systems of both industrialized and developing countries. Problems identified include the tendency of donors to promote national brands, the unwillingness of commercial firms to adapt equipment to conditions in poor countries, and the tremendous waste that occurs when a diagnostic tool is purchased in the absence of a corresponding therapeutic capacity. The second part considers technology transfer from the distinctly different perspectives of the industrialized countries, which produce the technology, and the developing countries, which must absorb it. The final part looks for solutions that can lead to more responsible choices in the selection of health technologies and better mechanisms for deciding when potential benefits will be realized in practice. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
eng. |
| 550 ## - ISSUING BODY NOTE |
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| Issuing body note |
WHODOC |
| 561 ## - OWNERSHIP AND CUSTODIAL HISTORY |
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| History |
WHO monograph |
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4 |
| 650 02 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Technology transfer |
| General subdivision |
congresses. |
| 650 02 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Technology assessment, Biomedical |
| General subdivision |
congresses. |
| 651 #2 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Developing countries. |
| 690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN) |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Medical Technology and Radiation Medicine. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Bankowski, Zbigniew. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Ada, Gordon L. |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
World Health Organization. |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
NLM Classification Scheme |
| Koha item type |
Books |
