Educational resources

Third World Health: Hostage to First World Wealth. Theodore MacDonald. Radcliffe Publishing. 2005. ISBN-13: 9781857757699

This book is about the complex socio-economic relations between the developed and developing world and was reviewed in the MPS Casebook from February 2006. It is a very useful generic resource and is highly recommended.

Global Health Partnerships: the UK contribution to health in developing countries Nigel Crisp, Department of Health, February 2007

A useful primer for current UK government policy about healthcare in the developing world. This is a very large file and can be downloaded directly from the Department of Health website.

Health in the Middle East. BMJ Vol 333, No 7573, October 2006

This issue of the BMJ has a large number of articles relating to political and social issues in the Middle East and should be an essential read for anyone wanting to spend some time in this region.

The Management of Benign Prostatic Obstruction: a voice from the third world. Deen Sharma, BJUI 97; 671-672, November 2006

Deen Sharma, an active member of Urolink from Guyana, South America, has written this article on the management of Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (BPH) in the developing world. We are grateful to Deen for his co-operation with the provision of this article.

11th Endoscopic Training Course for Nurses and Technicians in the Care and Maintenance of Rigid and Flexible Endoscopic Intrumentation, October 2005

KeyMed Ltd and their head of Surgical Business, Peter Hawkins, have been kind enough to allow us to place the latest KeyMed instruction course on endoscope maintenance on the Urolink website. We are extremely grateful to KeyMed, with whom Urolink has a very long and strong relationship, for their help in making this information available to the international community.

Section 1 - Introduction

This is the introduction to the 11th Endoscopic Training Course for Nurses and Technicians in the Care and Maintenance of Rigid and Flexible Endoscopic Instrumentation, October 2005.

Section 2 - Endoscope design; the inside story

A comprehensive manual about the different types of endoscopes, their design and constraints. An essential primer about urological endoscopy.

Section 3 - How to get the best out of your equipment; cleaning and preventative maintenance

The essential guide to cleaning all rigid and flexible endoscopes and how to stop them 'falling over'.

Section 4 - Service, servicing and repair

This is KeyMed's guide to servicing. There is not a huge amount of information about how to service equipment in the field in this section.

Section 5 - Electrickery

A guide to the use of electrosurgery. Again, an essential manual of the use of electrosurgical equipment but with little information about its maintenance.

Section 6 - Educational materials and course

This is KeyMed's guide to their available courses in 2005 and other similar courses which may be of interest.

Section 7 - Infection control in endoscopy

A guide to the available literature about this subject in October 2005.

Urology in developing parts of the world, British Journal of Urology International (BJUI), Volume 89, Issue s1, March 2002

Urolink is extremely grateful to the executive of the British Journal of Urology International, and to Peter Bellchamber in particular, for its help in making the following articles from the 'Urology in developing parts of the world' supplement to the BJUI, published in March 2002, available to interested parties. The BJUI has given permission for direct access to this issue, the index to which can be viewed via the articles listed below.

Urolink: a model for working together in a changing world. Neville Harrison. Pages 1-5.