Transnational healthcare, cross-border perspectives

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue , 2015, Pages 284-289

  Bell, David ^a   Holliday, Ruth ^a   Ormond, Meghann ^b   Mainil, Tomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NHTV BREDA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN TUMOR; DOWN SYNDROME; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL TOURISM; MIGRANT; PATIENT MOBILITY; PATIENT RIGHT; PROTON THERAPY; TRANSNATIONAL HEALTH CARE; TRAVEL; BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; TRENDS;

HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MEDICAL TOURISM; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 84920272500     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.11.014     Document Type: Editorial

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