Handbook on Medical Tourism and Patient Mobility
Edited by Neil Lunt,
Daniel Horsfall and
Johanna Hanefeld
in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing
Abstract:
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, dental, fertility and bariatric treatment.
Keywords: Economics and Finance; Geography; Politics and Public Policy Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
ISBN: 9781783471188
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Chapters in this book:
- Ch 1 The shaping of contemporary medical tourism and patient mobility , pp 3-15
- Neil Lunt, Daniel Horsfall and Johanna Hanefeld
- Ch 2 Medical tourism – concepts and definitions , pp 16-24
- John Connell
- Ch 3 Medical tourism by numbers , pp 25-36
- Daniel Horsfall and Neil Lunt
- Ch 4 Globalization and trade in health services , pp 37-44
- Johanna Hanefeld and Richard Smith
- Ch 5 Patients’ willingness to travel , pp 45-56
- Mark Exworthy and Stephen Peckham
- Ch 6 Travelling for value: global drivers of change in the tertiary and quarternary markets , pp 57-68
- Tricia J. Johnson and Andrew N. Garman
- Ch 7 Health systems and medical tourism , pp 71-81
- Pedro Barros
- Ch 8 The economics of health and medical tourism , pp 82-91
- David Reisman
- Ch 9 Accounting for trade in healthcare , pp 92-103
- David Morgan
- Ch 10 Financing mechanisms , pp 104-111
- Johanna Hanefeld and Richard Smith
- Ch 11 The implications of medical travel upon equity in lower-and middle-income countries , pp 112-122
- Andrea Whittaker
- Ch 12 What’s where? Why there? And why care? A geography of responsibility in medical tourism , pp 123-130
- Meghann Ormond
- Ch 13 A review of small-scale niche treatment providers , pp 133-140
- Olive N.Y. Cheung
- Ch 14 Regional differences: scope and trust among medical tourism facilitators , pp 141-153
- Lydia L. Gan and James R. Frederick
- Ch 15 Government and governance strategies in medical tourism , pp 154-163
- Meghann Ormond and Tomas Mainil
- Ch 16 Marketing medical tourism in Korea , pp 164-173
- Ki Nam Jin
- Ch 17 Medical tourism and the internet , pp 174-183
- Daniel Horsfall and Neil Lunt
- Ch 18 Networks and supply chains: the nature of medical tourism markets , pp 184-192
- Neil Lunt
- Ch 19 The coming perfect storm: medical tourism as a biosecurity issue , pp 193-204
- C. Michael Hall
- Ch 20 Diasporic medical return: Korean immigrants’ use of homeland medical services , pp 207-216
- Jane Yeonjae Lee, Robin A. Kearns and Wardlow Friesen
- Ch 21 Culture and medical travel , pp 217-227
- Elisa J. Sobo
- Ch 22 Use of cross-border healthcare among immigrants , pp 228-237
- Signe Smith Jervelund and Line Neerup Handlos
- Ch 23 Migration: the mobility of patients and health professionals , pp 238-246
- Margaret Walton-Roberts
- Ch 24 United States (US)–Mexico bi-national insurance efforts and the prospective impacts of healthcare reforms in the US and Mexico , pp 247-257
- Arturo Vargas Bustamante
- Ch 25 European retirement migration: access to health care and policy implications , pp 258-267
- Helena Legido-Quigley and Martin McKee
- Ch 26 Medical tourism: a case study of Thailand , pp 268-277
- Thinnakorn Noree
- Ch 27 International medical travel developments within Thailand and Southeast Asia , pp 278-287
- Audrey Bochaton
- Ch 28 The national context of medical travel within Japan , pp 288-295
- Hiroyoshi Endo, Serina Okamura and Masafumi Toya
- Ch 29 Medical tourism and outward FDI in health services: India in South Asia , pp 296-306
- Rupa Chanda
- Ch 30 Medical tourism developments within the Middle East , pp 307-312
- Nabil M. Kronfol
- Ch 31 Migration and patient mobility in Latin America , pp 313-322
- Max William Hadler
- Ch 32 The rise of medical tourism to South Africa , pp 323-331
- Jonathan Crush, Abel Chikanda, David Sanders and Belinda Maswikwa
- Ch 33 Medical tourism developments within Turkey , pp 332-338
- Sidika Kaya, Seda Karsavuran and Ahmet Yildiz
- Ch 34 Ethics of medical tourism , pp 341-349
- Guido Pennings
- Ch 35 Medical tourism for services illegal in patients’ home country , pp 350-359
- I. Glenn Cohen
- Ch 36 Child medical tourism: a new phenomenon , pp 360-369
- Charlotte Hamlyn-Williams, Monica Lakhanpaul and Logan Manikam
- Ch 37 Hospital accreditation and medical tourism , pp 370-378
- Charles D. Shaw
- Ch 38 Medical tourism and trust: towards an agenda for research , pp 379-390
- Michael Calnan and Vid Calovski
- Ch 39 Putting the thermal back into medical tourism , pp 393-402
- Melanie Smith, László Puczkó and Ivett Sziva
- Ch 40 Dental tourism , pp 403-410
- Arun Chandu
- Ch 41 Transplantation tourism in Asia: snapshot, consequences and the imperative for policy changes , pp 411-420
- Alex Jingwei He
- Ch 42 Cosmetic surgery tourism , pp 421-430
- Ruth Holliday and David Bell
- Ch 43 Journey without end: travelling overseas for bariatric surgery: a qualitative study of UK patients travelling for bariatric surgery , pp 431-440
- Johanna Hanefeld and Daniel Horsfall
- Ch 44 Cross-border reproductive travel , pp 441-450
- Nicky Hudson and Lorraine Culley
- Ch 45 ‘They go the extra mile, the extra ten miles...’: examining Canadian medical tourists’ interactions with health care workers abroad , pp 451-460
- Valorie A. Crooks, Victoria Casey, Rebecca Whitmore, Rory Johnston and Jeremy Snyder
- Ch 46 Outcomes and medical tourism , pp 461-472
- Neil Lunt and Daniel Horsfall
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