Developing institutions for cancer care in low-income and middle-income countries: from cancer units to comprehensive cancer centres

B Sirohi, K Chalkidou, CS Pramesh… - The lancet …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Global cancer centres operate across different sizes, scales, and ecosystems.
Understanding the essential aspects of the creation, organisation, accreditation, and …

Health and wellness–related travel: A scoping study of the literature in 2010-2018

L Kemppainen, V Koskinen, H Bergroth… - Sage …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Health and wellness–related travel, also known as medical tourism, is a topical
phenomenon with a wide range of effects in both local and transnational contexts. This …

Antimicrobial resistance and the Iraq wars: armed conflict as an underinvestigated pathway with growing significance

A Abou Fayad, A Rizk, S El Sayed, M Kaddoura… - BMJ Global …, 2023 - gh.bmj.com
Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae, have also implicated another
underinvestigated pathway for AMR: the direct and indirect roles of wars and conflicts, and …

Transnational medical travel: patient mobility, shifting health system entitlements and attachments

M Ormond, N Lunt - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Transnational medical travel–the temporary movement by patients across national borders
in order to address medical concerns abroad that are (considered to be) unable to be …

High-cost cancer treatment across borders in conflict zones: experience of Iraqi patients in Lebanon

M Skelton, R Alameddine, O Saifi, M Hammoud… - JCO global …, 2020 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Conflict-induced cross-border travel for medical treatment is commonly observed
in the Middle East. There has been little research conducted on the financial impact this has …

From medical tourism to regionalism from the bottom up: emerging transnational spaces of care between Libya and Tunisia

B Rouland, M Jarraya - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper analyses the emergence of transnational care through the case study of Libyan
patients seeking care in the Tunisian city of Sfax as a result of changes triggered by the …

Im/mobilities and dis/connectivities in medical globalisation: How global is Global Health?

H Dilger, D Mattes - Global Public Health, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The interdisciplinary, politically contested field of Global Health has often been described as
a consequence of, and response to, an intensification of the mobilities of, and connectivities …

[HTML][HTML] Language, medical tourism and the enterprising self

S Muth, N Suryanarayan - Multilingua, 2020 - degruyter.com
This paper aims to demonstrate the implications of health mobility on language practices in
the medical tourism industry in India and on the ways, language workers become …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-border strategies for access to healthcare in violent conflict–A scoping review

RK Baatz, A Ekzayez, K Meagher, G Bowsher… - Journal of migration and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background The geographical reconfiguration of healthcare systems in times of violent
conflict is increasingly being recognised in academic literature. This includes conflict …

[HTML][HTML] Of odysseys and miracles: A narrative approach on therapeutic mobilities for ayurveda treatment

H Kaspar, A Abegg, S Reddy - Social Science & Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
In the past two decades, health care has become a global market and transnational practice.
An emerging body of literature examines the astounding variety of drivers, conditions, and …