The European cross-border patient as both citizen and consumer: Public health and health system implications

Medical Tourism and Transnational Health Care

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 131-148

  Mainil, Tomas ^a   Commers, Matt ^b   Michelsen, Kai ^b  

^a NHTV BREDA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84997018091     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9781137338495     Document Type: Chapter

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