The bilateral agreements signed between South Africa and countries in Southern and
Eastern Africa are a rare example of efforts to regulate health-related issues in a region. As …

Background Medical tourism is a practice where patients travel internationally to purchase
medical services. Medical tourists travel abroad for reasons including costly care, long wait …

By taking an ethnographic approach to medical travel, this important book uses critical
perspectives to understand inequalities in healthcare access and delivery, including gender …

The past 10 to 15 years has seen a substantial rise in the number (or at least the perception)
of patients traveling for medical treatment, often to exotic or long-haul destinations; it is this …

Background: Following the introduction of administrative federalism in the Italian National
Health Service, inter-regional patients' mobility has become increasingly relevant because …

Holistic and multi-disciplinary responses should be prioritized given the depth and breadth
through which corruption in the healthcare sector can cover. Here, taking the Peruvian …

Medical travel facilitators play an important role in mobilising patients towards transnational
healthcare markets. However, little is known about the actual mobilising work of medical …

Purpose: This article explores first-hand accounts of Canadian bariatric patients'
experiences of seeking and obtaining weight loss surgery abroad through the practice of …

Background: The importance of cross-border healthcare, medical and health tourism plays a
significant role in the European health policy and health management. After dentistry …

Spain has a National Health Service with a mixed public-private funded system. In the last
decades, a huge effort has gone into reducing barriers to patient migration. We estimate a …