Surgical teams Working in aFrica
Together for Safer Surgery
Surgical teams Working in aFrica
Together for Safer Surgery

Further Reading

Book List

Below are a selection of Global Health themed books that might be of interest:

 

Turning the World Upside Down: The search for global health in the 21st Century
Nigel Crisp
Nonfiction. Written by Lord Nigel Crisp a seminal figure in Global Health. This book is an in-depth exploration of global health matters, written and informed by his many years involved in shaping the dialogue on such matters.

 

A Woman of Firsts 
Edna Adan Ismail
Nonfiction. An incredible account (autobiography) of this exceptional individual. Enlightening, inspiring, incredibly moving, and harrowing at times. It is the story of a lady who became a midwife and ultimately built a hospital in Somaliland.

 

Half the Sky: How to Change the World
Nicholas D Kristof & Sheryl Wudunn
Nonfiction. An in-depth exploration of gender inequality and how addressing it is a powerful way to resolve matters of poverty, disease and conflict. A truly eye-opening book which, through a series of case studies, offers a hard hitting, often harrowing, yet truly inspiring insight into ues to face mankind in the present era.

 

Cutting for Stone 
Abraham Verghese
Fiction. A clever novel set in Ethiopia with a surgical theme. A gripping tapestry of life that was a real page turner. As a novel, it offers exuberant colour to the picture, giving  a remarkable insight into global surgery and some of the many issues faced.

 

If you have any other suggestions, let us know!

 

Research Papers

Below are a selection of academic papers that are related to our work and might be of interest (our publications in bold):

  • The Muheza Approach: An affordable, safe, sustainable approach to hernia surgery in a resource poor setting and a model to develop a national methodology to hernia surgery in Tanzania, Hendra L, Kibaja J, Kibula E, Szymankiewicz M, ANZ J Surg 2020; 90; 1933–1937
  • Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development. Meara JG, Leather AJM, Hagander L et al. Lancet, 2015; 386: 569–624.
  • An estimation of inguinal hernia epidemiology adjusted for population age structure in Tanzania, Beard JH et al. Hernia, 2014; 18: 289–95.
  • Ten-year personal experience of using low density polyethylene (LDPE) mesh for inguinal hernia repair. Tongaonkar RR, Sanders DL, Kingsnorth AN. Trop. Med. Surg. 2013; 1: 136.
  • Mosquito Net Mesh for Abdominal Wall Hernioplasty: A Comparison of Material Characteristics with Commercial Prosthesis, Sanders DL, Kingsnorth AN, Stepheson BM, World J Surg. 2013;37:737-745
  • Inguinal hernioplasty using mosquito net mesh in low income countries: an alternative and cost effective prosthesis, Stephenson BM, Kingsnorth AN; BMJ, 2011;343:d7448
  • Safety and sterilization of mosquito net mesh for humanitarian inguinal hernioplasty. Stephenson B, Kingsnorth A. World J. Surg. 2011; 35:1957–60.

 

 

Other Websites

Below are a selection of other websites that might be of interest:

 

 The Tanzania Development Vision 2025: The United Republic of Tanzania, Ministry of Finance and Planning

 

 

 

The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. The website for this seminal piece of work that has shone the light upon this crucial area of Global Health. The disease burden related to inadequate surgical care is greater than that of HIV, TB and malaria combined. 

 

Shim’s Surgical Adventures A blow by blow account of the 5 months Mark spent working in the surgical department at Muheza, Tanzania in 2018-2019. It includes a wealth of clinical stories as well as covering the time when the first mesh hernia service was set up, with all the challenges and successes experienced.  

 

Hernia International have been repairing hernias in LMICs across the World with this pioneering affordable technique using ‘mosquito net’ mesh. Professor Kingsnorth generously supported our work, sharing his wealth of experience and enabling the model that we have developed to be successful.

 

THET The Tropical Health and Education Trust was founded in 1988 and has become a shining light in Global Health. Working in partnership with numerous organisations and volunteers from across the UK, it supports a vast portfolio of activity around the World. 

 

Winchester Centre for Global Health The University of Winchester Centre for Global Health is a dynamic hub of academics and researchers working together to tackle global challenges through its research-related activity and teaching. The University also offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Global Health. 

 

If you have any other suggestions, let us know!