Medical tourism - A case study for the USA and India, Germany and Hungary

Acta Polytechnica Hungarica

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 137-160

  Piazolo, Marc ^a   Zanca, Nurşen Albayrak ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES KAISERSLAUTERN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE INCARNATE WORD   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative advantage; Economic gains from international trade; Regional and global scope of medical tourism; Ricardian trade model

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955404231     PISSN: 17858860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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