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Handbook on Medical Tourism and Patient Mobility
Edited by Neil Lunt, Daniel Horsfall and Johanna Hanefeld
The growth of international travel for purposes of medical treatment has been accompanied by increased academic research and analysis. This Handbook explores the emergence of medical travel and patient mobility and the implications for patients and health systems. Bringing together leading scholars and analysts from across the globe, this unprecedented Handbook examines the regional and national experiences of medical tourism, including coverage of the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The chapters explore topics on issues of risk, law and ethics; and include treatment-focused discussions which highlight patient decision-making, patient experience and treatment outcomes for cosmetic, transplantation, dentil, fertility and bariatric treatment.
Handbook
- Published in print:
- 26 Jun 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781783471188
- eISBN:
- 9781783471195
- Pages:
- c 544
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- Handbook on Medical Tourism and Patient Mobility
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction: the emergence and significance of medical tourism and patient mobility
- Chapter 1: The shaping of contemporary medical tourism and patient mobility
- Chapter 2: Medical tourism – concepts and definitions
- Chapter 3: Medical tourism by numbers
- Chapter 4: Globalization and trade in health services
- Chapter 5: Patients’ willingness to travel
- Chapter 6: Travelling for value: global drivers of change in the tertiary and quarternary markets
- Chapter 7: Health systems and medical tourism
- Chapter 8: The economics of health and medical tourism
- Chapter 9: Accounting for trade in healthcare
- Chapter 10: Financing mechanisms
- Chapter 11: The implications of medical travel upon equity in lower-and middle-income countries
- Chapter 12: What’s where? Why there? And why care? A geography of responsibility in medical tourism
- Chapter 13: A review of small-scale niche treatment providers
- Chapter 14: Regional differences: scope and trust among medical tourism facilitators
- Chapter 15: Government and governance strategies in medical tourism
- Chapter 16: Marketing medical tourism in Korea
- Chapter 17: Medical tourism and the internet
- Chapter 18: Networks and supply chains: the nature of medical tourism markets
- Chapter 19: The coming perfect storm: medical tourism as a biosecurity issue
- Chapter 20: Diasporic medical return: Korean immigrants’ use of homeland medical services
- Chapter 21: Culture and medical travel
- Chapter 22: Use of cross-border healthcare among immigrants
- Chapter 23: Migration: the mobility of patients and health professionals
- Chapter 24: United States (US)–Mexico bi-national insurance efforts and the prospective impacts of healthcare reforms in the US and Mexico
- Chapter 25: European retirement migration: access to health care and policy implications
- Chapter 26: Medical tourism: a case study of Thailand
- Chapter 27: International medical travel developments within Thailand and Southeast Asia
- Chapter 28: The national context of medical travel within Japan
- Chapter 29: Medical tourism and outward FDI in health services: India in South Asia
- Chapter 30: Medical tourism developments within the Middle East
- Chapter 31: Migration and patient mobility in Latin America
- Chapter 32: The rise of medical tourism to South Africa
- Chapter 33: Medical tourism developments within Turkey
- Chapter 34: Ethics of medical tourism
- Chapter 35: Medical tourism for services illegal in patients’ home country
- Chapter 36: Child medical tourism: a new phenomenon
- Chapter 37: Hospital accreditation and medical tourism
- Chapter 38: Medical tourism and trust: towards an agenda for research
- Chapter 39: Putting the thermal back into medical tourism
- Chapter 40: Dental tourism
- Chapter 41: Transplantation tourism in Asia: snapshot, consequences and the imperative for policy changes
- Chapter 42: Cosmetic surgery tourism
- Chapter 43: Journey without end: travelling overseas for bariatric surgery: a qualitative study of UK patients travelling for bariatric surgery
- Chapter 44: Cross-border reproductive travel
- Chapter 45: ‘They go the extra mile, the extra ten miles . . .’: examining Canadian medical tourists’ interactions with health care workers abroad
- Chapter 46: Outcomes and medical tourism
- Index
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Chapter 1: The shaping of contemporary medical tourism and patient mobility
Neil Lunt, Daniel Horsfall and Johanna Hanefeld
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- Published:
- 26 June 2015
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- Pages:
- 3–15 (13 total)
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Social And Political Science 2015
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- Handbook on Medical Tourism and Patient Mobility
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction: the emergence and significance of medical tourism and patient mobility
- Chapter 1: The shaping of contemporary medical tourism and patient mobility
- Chapter 2: Medical tourism – concepts and definitions
- Chapter 3: Medical tourism by numbers
- Chapter 4: Globalization and trade in health services
- Chapter 5: Patients’ willingness to travel
- Chapter 6: Travelling for value: global drivers of change in the tertiary and quarternary markets
- Chapter 7: Health systems and medical tourism
- Chapter 8: The economics of health and medical tourism
- Chapter 9: Accounting for trade in healthcare
- Chapter 10: Financing mechanisms
- Chapter 11: The implications of medical travel upon equity in lower-and middle-income countries
- Chapter 12: What’s where? Why there? And why care? A geography of responsibility in medical tourism
- Chapter 13: A review of small-scale niche treatment providers
- Chapter 14: Regional differences: scope and trust among medical tourism facilitators
- Chapter 15: Government and governance strategies in medical tourism
- Chapter 16: Marketing medical tourism in Korea
- Chapter 17: Medical tourism and the internet
- Chapter 18: Networks and supply chains: the nature of medical tourism markets
- Chapter 19: The coming perfect storm: medical tourism as a biosecurity issue
- Chapter 20: Diasporic medical return: Korean immigrants’ use of homeland medical services
- Chapter 21: Culture and medical travel
- Chapter 22: Use of cross-border healthcare among immigrants
- Chapter 23: Migration: the mobility of patients and health professionals
- Chapter 24: United States (US)–Mexico bi-national insurance efforts and the prospective impacts of healthcare reforms in the US and Mexico
- Chapter 25: European retirement migration: access to health care and policy implications
- Chapter 26: Medical tourism: a case study of Thailand
- Chapter 27: International medical travel developments within Thailand and Southeast Asia
- Chapter 28: The national context of medical travel within Japan
- Chapter 29: Medical tourism and outward FDI in health services: India in South Asia
- Chapter 30: Medical tourism developments within the Middle East
- Chapter 31: Migration and patient mobility in Latin America
- Chapter 32: The rise of medical tourism to South Africa
- Chapter 33: Medical tourism developments within Turkey
- Chapter 34: Ethics of medical tourism
- Chapter 35: Medical tourism for services illegal in patients’ home country
- Chapter 36: Child medical tourism: a new phenomenon
- Chapter 37: Hospital accreditation and medical tourism
- Chapter 38: Medical tourism and trust: towards an agenda for research
- Chapter 39: Putting the thermal back into medical tourism
- Chapter 40: Dental tourism
- Chapter 41: Transplantation tourism in Asia: snapshot, consequences and the imperative for policy changes
- Chapter 42: Cosmetic surgery tourism
- Chapter 43: Journey without end: travelling overseas for bariatric surgery: a qualitative study of UK patients travelling for bariatric surgery
- Chapter 44: Cross-border reproductive travel
- Chapter 45: ‘They go the extra mile, the extra ten miles . . .’: examining Canadian medical tourists’ interactions with health care workers abroad
- Chapter 46: Outcomes and medical tourism
- Index