IFMBE | World Health Organization Surveys

Dear Colleagues,

We appreciate your kind input to any or all of the following three surveys conducted by the World Health Organisation.  The online survey will be opened till 15th November 2017.

• 2017 Global Survey on Professional and Academic Profiles on Biomedical Engineers and Technicians 

After the successful release of the book “Human resources for medical devices, the role of Biomedical Engineers”, supported by WHO, IFMBE and many colleagues around the world, we now need to review and update the numbers of biomedical engineers and technicians in every country as of 2017. Your input is thus much welcome and needed.
If you have information about the total number of biomedical engineers and technicians in your country, please choose the option “Country” on the first page of this survey. If you only have data specific to your professional society or your university, please choose the corresponding option on the first page of the survey.
 

WHO Websites:

Human resources for medical devices, the role of Biomedical Engineers

Global Health Observatory: Biomedical engineers density

Biomedical engineering global resources

>> Respond to 2017 Global Survey on Professional and Academic Profiles on Biomedical Engineers and Technicians

• Survey on Donations of Medical Equipment

This work was initiated by WHO intern D. Sneddon with the intention to document good and inappropriate practice in medical equipment donations, and in particular the issues caused by donation of bad equipment. We would like to continue this work and thus need evidence and numbers. If you have ever received donated devices, please share your experience by filling in the survey above as precisely as possible. The survey is available in four languages: English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. In order to fill in the survey, you need to log in with the information provided above (username: guest, password: guest)

>> Respond to Survey on Donations of Medical Equipment

WHO Website: Donation of medical equipment

• Survey on Technical Guidance for Hospitals at the XXIst Century

In an interdepartmental work in WHO, we are collecting and organizing information and guidance available to plan and to manage hospitals and other health care facilities. If you have country expertise or academic documents that can help elevate this work in WHO, please submit it in the survey. We will use to populate the WHO new website on Hospitals in the XXI Century and in the country data. The deadline is 15th November, 2017. 

WHO Website: Hospitals

>> Respond to Survey on Technical Guidance for Hospitals at the XXIst Century