Socialized Medicine Meets Private Industry: Medical Tourism in Costa Rica

Risks and Challenges in Medical Tourism: Understanding the Global Market for Health Services

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 87-108

  Lee, Courtney A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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