Print Email Facebook Twitter Adoption barriers for medical technology in Sub Saharan Africa Title Adoption barriers for medical technology in Sub Saharan Africa Author van der Kooij, Nienke (TU Delft Technology, Policy and Management) Contributor Hinrichs-Krapels, S. (mentor) van Beers, Cees (graduation committee) Bots, P.W.G. (mentor) Schuitemaker, Jelle (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Complex Systems Engineering and Management (CoSEM) Date 2022-03-29 Abstract Currently, medical technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are not yet sufficient to provide robust healthcare systems. This is not due to it being unavailable, but due to a large portion of present technologies being non-functional. This non-functionality also causes a lack of adoption of medical technologies. Through a T-shaped case study (e.g. a multiple case study with one case worked out in-depth), current barriers in adoption are uncovered. These are then integrated into an actionable framework that can be used by organizations implementing medical technologies in SSA to uncover barriers applicable to them, as well as proposed mitigating strategies to overcome these barriers. Themes included affecting adoption in this thesis are: maintenance, training, organizational and behavioral change. Barriers discovered can be divided into three categories. The first being resource-barriers, covering time, money, human and materials. Secondly, institutional barriers, covering policy, trust and the need for breaking habits. The last barrier category covers communication between client and organization. The framework offers the possibility to find applicable barriers based upon characteristics of an implementation situation. The implementation situation herein is medical equipment (ME) being implemented by an organization (O) into a client organization (CO). Using the knowledge on barriers in an early stage provides opportunity for the organization to overcome these barriers by informed analysis of mitigating strategies that they could implement. Subject Technology Adoptionmedical technologyLMICBarriersSub-Saharan Africa To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:139bb808-c84b-4ed1-ad57-8f1d900f5ffa Related dataset 4TU.ResearchData https://doi.org/10.4121/19364735.v1 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2022 Nienke van der Kooij Files PDF MscThesis_NienkevdKooij_4472047.pdf 2.53 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:139bb808-c84b-4ed1-ad57-8f1d900f5ffa/datastream/OBJ/view