Risks and Challenges in Medical Tourism (eBook, PDF)

Understanding the Global Market for Health Services
Redaktion: Hodges, Jill R.; Turner, Leigh; Kimball, Ann Marie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A multidisciplinary international team examines the safety, ethics, and health implications of the emerging global market for health care, and the issues that arise when patients cross borders for medical procedures they cannot afford or access at home, from liposuction to kidney transplants.

Risks and Challenges in Medical Tourism: Understanding the Global Market for Health Services provides an in-depth, comprehensive assessment of the benefits and risks when health care becomes a global commodity. The collection includes contributions from leading scholars in law and public policy, medicine and public health, bioethics, anthropology, health geography, and economics.

This timely and informative handbook looks at medical tourism from the perspective of some of the major regions that send and receive medical tourists, including the United States, the European Union, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Contributors examine how government agencies, medical tourism companies, international hospital chains, and other organizations promote medical tourism and the globalization of health care. The topics explored include the legal remedies available to medical tourists when procedures go awry; potential consequences when patients cross borders for medical procedures that are illegal in their home countries; the relationship of medical tourism to international spread of infectious disease; and the lack of adequate transnational policies and regulations governing the global market for health services.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313399367
• Artikelnr.: 68184316

Autorenporträt

Jill Hodges, MPH, MSL, is a writer and editor who explores how globalization affects individuals' lives. Leigh Turner, PhD, is associate professor at the University of Minnesota's Center for Bioethics, School of Public Health, and College of Pharmacy. Ann Marie Kimball, MD, MPH, is senior program officer of Epidemiology and Surveillance, Infectious Disease, and Global Health at the Gates Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Health Care Goes Global Leigh Turner and Jill R. Hodges
PART I. DRIVERS, DEPARTURE POINTS, AND DESTINATIONS: SITUATED STUDIES OF
MEDICAL TOURISM 2. The United States: Destination and Departure Point
Tricia J. Johnson, Andrew Garman, Samuel F. Hohmann, Steven Meurer, and
Molly Allen 3. Medical Tourism the European Way Richard D. Smith, Helena
Legido-Quigley, Neil Lunt, and Daniel Horsfall 4. Medical Tourism in
Southeast Asia: Opportunities and Challenges Churnrurtai Kanchanachitra,
Cha-aim Pachanee, Manuel M. Dayrit, and Viroj Tangcharoensathien 5.
Socialized Medicine Meets Private Industry: Medical Tourism in Costa Rica
Courtney A. Lee PART II. BORDER CROSSINGS: RISKS, CONTROVERSIES, AND
CONSEQUENCES 6. Unseen Travelers: Medical Tourism and the Spread of
Infectious Disease Jill R. Hodges and Ann Marie Kimball 7. Perilous
Voyages: Travel Abroad for Organ Transplants and Stem Cell Treatments
Dominique Martin 8. Cross-Border Assisted Reproductive Care: Global Quests
for a Child Andrea Whittaker PART III. LEGAL AND REGULATORY QUESTIONS 9.
Into the Void: The Legal Ambiguities of an Unregulated Medical Tourism
Market Nathan Cortez 10. Medical Outlaws or Medical Refugees?: An
Examination of Circumvention Tourism I. Glenn Cohen 11. Independent Health
Care Accreditation: Medical Tourism and Other International Aspects
Stephen T. Green and Hannah King PART IV. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS 12.
Medical Travel and the Global Health Services Marketplace: Identifying
Risks to Patients, Public Health, and Health Systems Leigh Turner 13.
Medical Tourism Facilitators: Ethical Concerns about Roles and
Responsibilities Jeremy Snyder, Valorie A. Crooks, Alexandra Wright, and
Rory Johnston 14. Conclusion: High Stakes Market Ann Marie Kimball and Jill
R. Hodges About the Editors and Contributors Index