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Handbook on Medical Tourism and Patient Mobility
The growth of international travel for purposes of medical treatment has been accompanied by increased academic research and analysis. This Handbook explores the emergence of medical travel and patient mobility and the implications for patients and health systems. Bringing together leading scholars and analysts from across the globe, this unprecedented 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 include treatment-focused discussions which highlight patient decision-making, patient experience and treatment outcomes for cosmetic, transplantation, dental, fertility and bariatric treatment.
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The growth of international travel for purposes of medical treatment has been accompanied by increased academic research and analysis. This Handbook explores the emergence of medical travel and patient mobility and the implications for patients and health systems.
Bringing together leading scholars and analysts from across the globe, this unprecedented 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 include treatment-focused discussions which highlight patient decision-making, patient experience and treatment outcomes for cosmetic, transplantation, dental, fertility and bariatric treatment.
Students, practitioners and researchers of global health policy, health and globalisation, international business, travel medicine and health ethics will find the subjects discussed to be of considerable interest.
Bringing together leading scholars and analysts from across the globe, this unprecedented 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 include treatment-focused discussions which highlight patient decision-making, patient experience and treatment outcomes for cosmetic, transplantation, dental, fertility and bariatric treatment.
Students, practitioners and researchers of global health policy, health and globalisation, international business, travel medicine and health ethics will find the subjects discussed to be of considerable interest.
Critical Acclaim
‘The authors take a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to examine key issues of the cross border movement of patients. State-of-the-art analysis is underpinned by extensive country studies. 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 LSHTM, Professor of Practice, McGill University, Canada
‘Lunt, Horsfall and Hanefield have brought together the world’s leading scholars in the field for this Handbook. Collectively, they chart the course for medical tourism research in covering an exhaustive range of topics. This book is rich in both the breadth and depth of information offered in a time where medical tourism is of increasing importance to the global and domestic health policy and service provision landscape. The editors have done a superb job of steering the contributors and piecing together the various sections of the book to produce a coherent and, what is likely to become, definitive work. It will be essential reading for anyone with interests in the subject.’
– Robin Gauld, University of Otago, New Zealand
– Nick Drager, Honorary Professor LSHTM, Professor of Practice, McGill University, Canada
‘Lunt, Horsfall and Hanefield have brought together the world’s leading scholars in the field for this Handbook. Collectively, they chart the course for medical tourism research in covering an exhaustive range of topics. This book is rich in both the breadth and depth of information offered in a time where medical tourism is of increasing importance to the global and domestic health policy and service provision landscape. The editors have done a superb job of steering the contributors and piecing together the various sections of the book to produce a coherent and, what is likely to become, definitive work. It will be essential reading for anyone with interests in the subject.’
– Robin Gauld, University of Otago, New Zealand
Contributors
Contributors: P.P. Barros, D. Bell, A. Bochaton, A.V. Bustamante, M. Calnan, V. Calovski, V. Casey, R. Chanda, A. Chandu, O.N.Y. Cheung, A. Chikanda, I.G. Cohen, J. Connell, V.A. Crooks, J. Crush, L. Culley, H. Endo, M. Exworthy, J.R. Frederick, W. Friesen, L.L. Gan, A.N. Garman, M.W. Hadler, C.M. Hall, C. Hamlyn-Williams, L.N. Handlos, J. Hanefeld, A.J. He, R. Holliday, D. Horsfall, N. Hudson, S.S. Jervelund, K.N. Jin, T.J. Johnson, R. Johnston, S. Karsavuran, S. Kaya, R.A. Kearns, N.M. Kronfol, M. Lakhanpaul, J. Yeonjae Lee, H. Legido-Quigley, N. Lunt, T. Mainil, L. Manikam, B. Maswikwa, M. Mckee, D. Morgan, T. Noree, S. Okamura, M. Ormond, S. Peckham, G. Pennings, L. Puczkó, D. Reisman, D. Sanders, C.D. Shaw, M. Smith, R. Smith, J. Snyder, E.J. Sobo, I. Sziva, M. Toya, M. Walton-Roberts, R. Whitmore, A. Whittaker, A. Yıldız
Contents
Contents:
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
Sıdıka Kaya, Seda Karsavuran and Ahmet Yıldız
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, László Puczkó 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
Index
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
Sıdıka Kaya, Seda Karsavuran and Ahmet Yıldız
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, László Puczkó 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
Index
