Australian news media framing of medical tourism in low- and middle-income countries: A content review

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Imison, Michelle ^a   Schweinsberg, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Content analysis; Low and middle income countries; Medical tourism; News media; Newspaper; Television

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HUMAN; MEDICAL TOURISM; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; STATISTICS; TELEVISION;

AUSTRALIA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; MEDICAL TOURISM; NEWSPAPERS; TELEVISION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873253067     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-109     Document Type: Article

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