Patients beyond borders: A study of medical tourists in four countries;Patients sans frontières: Etude sur le tourisme médical dans quatre pays

Global Social Policy

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 315-335

  Alsharif, Mohd Jamal ^a   Labonté, Ronald ^b   Lu, Zuxun ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

China; health travel global market; India; international patients; Jordan; medical tourism; the United Arab Emirates

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TREATMENT; ETHICS; HEALTH SERVICES; HOSPITAL SECTOR; PUBLIC ACCESS; TOURISM;

CHINA; INDIA; JORDAN; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 78650267508     PISSN: 14680181     EISSN: 17412803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468018110380003     Document Type: Article

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