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 …

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 …

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 …

Involuntary childlessness, or infertility, is a condition that affects a sizeable number of
couples around the world (Mascarenhas et al. 2012). Assisted reproductive technologies …

With reproductive medical technologies becoming more accessible, assisted donor
conception is raising new and important questions about family life. Using in-depth …

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 …

'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 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 …

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 (CBRC) is a rapidly growing phenomenon of interest to
governments and regulators, professionals working within the field of assisted reproductive …