Guidelines for Reducing the Negative Public Health Impacts of Medical Tourism

Authors

  • Jeremy Snyder Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC, Canada
  • Valorie A. Crooks Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC, Canada

Keywords:

medical tourism, guidelines, cross border care, complicity, transplant tourism, reproductive tourism

Language(s):

English

Abstract

International travel for medical care, or medical tourism, creates ethical and safety concerns for patients. Guidelines could be developed and distributed to help address these concerns, but they may at the same time appear to endorse this practice.

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Published

2012-06-12

Issue

Vol. 1 (2012)

Section

Case studies

License

Copyright (c) 2012 Jeremy Snyder, Valorie A. Crooks

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.