What do we know about medical tourism? A review of the literature with discussion of its implications for the UK National Health Service as an example of a public …

J Hanefeld, R Smith, D Horsfall… - Journal of Travel …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Background Medical tourism is a growing phenomenon. This review of the literature maps
current knowledge and discusses findings with reference to the UK National Health Service …

Medical tourism: A snapshot of evidence on treatment abroad

N Lunt, D Horsfall, J Hanefeld - Maturitas, 2016 - Elsevier
The scoping review focuses on medical tourism, whereby consumers elect to travel across
borders or to overseas destinations to receive their treatment. Such treatments include …

Why do medical tourists travel to where they do? The role of networks in determining medical travel

J Hanefeld, N Lunt, R Smith, D Horsfall - Social Science & Medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
Evidence on medical tourism, including patient motivation, is increasing. Existing studies
have focused on identifying push and pull factors across different types of treatment, for …

[PDF][PDF] Assisted reproductive technology in Europe: usage and regulation in the context of cross-border reproductive care

P Präg, MC Mills - Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, causes, and …, 2017 - library.oapen.org
Involuntary childlessness, or infertility, is a condition that affects a sizeable number of
couples around the world (Mascarenhas et al. 2012). Assisted reproductive technologies …

[图书][B] The oocyte economy: The changing meaning of human eggs

C Waldby - 2019 - books.google.com
In recent years increasing numbers of women from wealthy countries have turned to egg
donation, egg freezing, and in vitro fertilization to become pregnant, especially later in life …

[图书][B] Relative strangers: Family life, genes and donor conception

P Nordqvist, C Smart - 2014 - books.google.com
With reproductive medical technologies becoming more accessible, assisted donor
conception is raising new and important questions about family life. Using in-depth …

Medical tourism: a cost or benefit to the NHS?

J Hanefeld, D Horsfall, N Lunt, R Smith - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
'Medical Tourism'–the phenomenon of people travelling abroad to access medical treatment-
has received increasing attention in academic and popular media. This paper reports …

The diversity of regulation and public financing of IVF in Europe and its impact on utilization

K Berg Brigham, B Cadier, K Chevreul - Human reproduction, 2013 - academic.oup.com
STUDY QUESTION How do the different forms of regulation and public financing of IVF
affect utilization in otherwise similar European welfare state systems? SUMMARY ANSWER …

Cross-border reproductive care: a future research agenda

MC Inhorn, ZB Gürtin - Reproductive biomedicine online, 2011 - Elsevier
Cross-border reproductive care (CBRC) is a rapidly growing phenomenon of interest to
governments and regulators, professionals working within the field of assisted reproductive …

Gender identity and future thinking about parenthood: A qualitative analysis of focus group data with transgender and non-binary people in the United Kingdom

F Tasker, J Gato - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The idea that people who are transgender or non-binary are not interested in becoming
parents has been refuted by several studies. However, both medical unknowns and …