Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Neil Lunt , Daniel Horsfall , Johanna HanefeldPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Dimensions: Width: 16.90cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.40cm Weight: 0.998kg ISBN: 9781783471188ISBN 10: 1783471182 Pages: 512 Publication Date: 26 June 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents: Introduction PART I INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT 1. The Shaping of Contemporary Medical Tourism and Patient Mobility Neil Lunt, Daniel Horsfall and Johanna Hanefeld 2. Medical Tourism - Concepts and Definitions John Connell 3. Medical Tourism by Numbers Daniel Horsfall and Neil Lunt 4. Globalization and Trade in Health Services Johanna Hanefeld and Richard Smith 5. Patients' Willingness to Travel Mark Exworthy and Stephen Peckham 6. Travelling for Value: Global Drivers of Change in the Tertiary and Quarternary Markets Tricia J. Johnson and Andrew N. Garman PART II MACRO-LEVEL CONSIDERATIONS 7. Health Systems and Medical Tourism Pedro P. Barros 8. The Economics of Health and Medical Tourism David Reisman 9. OECD Accounting for Trade in Healthcare David Morgan 10. Financing Mechanisms Johanna Hanefeld and Richard Smith 11. The Implications of Medical Travel upon Equity in Lower and Middle Income Countries Andrea Whittaker 12. What's Where? Why There? And Why Care? A Geography of Responsibility in Medical Tourism Meghann Ormond PART III UNDERSTANDING ORGANISATIONS AND ACTIVITIES 13. A Review of Small-Scale Niche Treatment Providers Olive N.Y. Cheung 14. Regional Differences: Scope and Trust Among Medical Tourism Facilitators Lydia L. Gan and James R. Frederick 15. Government and Governance Strategies in Medical Tourism Meghann Ormond and Tomas Mainil 16. Marketing Medical Tourism in Korea Ki Nam Jin 17. Medical Tourism and the Internet Daniel Horsfall and Neil Lunt 18. Networks and Supply Chains: The Nature of Medical Tourism Markets Neil Lunt 19. The Coming Perfect Storm: Medical Tourism as a Biosecurity Issue C. Michael Hall PART IV REGIONAL DIMENSIONS OF MEDICAL TOURISM 20. Diasporic Medical Return: Korean Immigrants' Use of Homeland Medical Services Jane Yeonjae Lee, Robin A. Kearns and Wardlow Friesen 21. Culture and Medical Travel Elisa J. Sobo 22. Use of Cross-Border Healthcare among Immigrants Signe Smith Jervelund and Line Neerup Handlos 23. Migration: The Mobility of Patients and Health Professionals Margaret Walton-Roberts 24. United States (US)-Mexico Bi-National Insurance Efforts and the Prospective Impacts of Health Care Reforms in the US and Mexico Arturo Vargas Bustamante 25. European Retirement Migration: Access to Health Care and Policy Implications Helena Legido-Quigley and Martin Mckee 26. Medical Tourism: A Case Study of Thailand Thinnakorn Noree 27. International Medical Travel Developments within Thailand and South-East Asia Audrey Bochaton 28. The National Context of Medical Travel within Japan Hiroyoshi Endo, Serina Okamura and Masafumi Toya 29. Medical Tourism and Outward FDI in Health Services: India in South Asia Rupa Chanda 30. Medical Tourism Developments within the Middle-East Nabil M. Kronfol 31. Migration and Patient Mobility in Latin America Max William Hadler 32. The Rise of Medical Tourism to South Africa Jonathan Crush, Abel Chikanda, David Sanders and Belinda Maswikwa 33. Medical Tourism Developments within Turkey Sidika Kaya, Seda Karsavuran and Ahmet Yildiz PART V ETHICAL, LEGAL AND REGULATORY 34. Ethics of Medical Tourism Guido Pennings 35. Medical Tourism for Services Illegal in Patients' Home Country I. Glenn Cohen 36. Child Medical Tourism: A New Phenomenon Charlotte Hamlyn-Williams, Monica Lakhanpaul and Logan Manikam 37. Hospital Accreditation and Medical Tourism Charles D. Shaw 38. Medical Tourism and Trust: Towards an Agenda for Research Michael Calnan and Vid Calovski PART VI MOTIVATION, CLINICAL EXPERIENCE AND OUTCOMES 39. Putting the Thermal Back into Medical Tourism Melanie Smith, Laszlo Puczko and Ivett Sziva 40. Dental Tourism Arun Chandu 41. Transplantation Tourism in Asia: Snapshot, Consequences and the Imperative for Policy Changes Alex Jingwei He 42. Cosmetic Surgery Tourism Ruth Holliday and David Bell 43. Journey Without End: Travelling Overseas for Bariatric Surgery: A Qualitative Study of UK Patients Travelling for Bariatric Surgery Johanna Hanefeld and Daniel Horsfall 44. Cross-Border Reproductive Travel Nicky Hudson and Lorraine Culley 45. `They Go the Extra Mile, the Extra Ten Miles...': Examining Canadian Medical Tourists' Interactions with Health Care Workers Abroad Valorie A. Crooks, Victoria Casey, Rebecca Whitmore, Rory Johnston and Jeremy Snyder 46. Outcomes and Medical Tourism Neil Lunt and Daniel Horsfall IndexReviews'This state of the art Handbook examines the regional and national experiences of medical tourism, including coverage of the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle-East, and Asia. The chapters explore topics on issues of risk, law and ethics; and includes a treatment-focused discussion which highlights patient decision-making, patient experience and treatment outcomes for cosmetic, transplantation, dental, fertility and bariatric treatment. An essential read for policy makers, regulators, practitioners and students who want to understand, influence and shape this key dimension of the globalisation of health.';Nick Drager, Honorary Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK and Professor of Practice, McGill University, Canada Author InformationEdited by Neil Lunt, Reader in Social Policy, Daniel Horsfall, Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy, University of York and Johanna Hanefeld, Lecturer in Health Systems Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
