Global trade and mobility of people has increased rapidly over the last 20 years. This has
had profound consequences for the evolution and the movement of antibiotic resistance …

The potential benefits of travelling across national borders to obtain medical treatment
include improved care, decreased costs and reduced waiting times. However, medical travel …

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 …

Abstract Intra-regional South–South medical tourism is a vastly understudied subject despite
its significance in many parts of the Global South. This paper takes issue with the …

There has been a growing interest in better understanding the trends and determinants of
health tourism activities. While much of the expanding literature on health tourism offers …

This study examines the experiences of informal caregivers in medical tourism through an
ethics of care lens. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 20 Canadians who had …

Immigration is a key political issue in the United Kingdom. The 2014 Immigration Act
includes a number of measures intended to reduce net immigration, including removing the …

Background Recent trends document growth in medical tourism, the private pursuit of
medical interventions abroad. Medical tourism introduces challenges to decision-making …

Many public health systems in high-and middle-income countries are under increasing
financial pressures as a result of ageing populations, a rise in chronic and non …

For many reasons numbers are at the heart of medical tourism. From an industry perspective
it is essential to establish the scale of medical tourism so as to normalise it and the potential …