Edited by Neil Lunt, Reader in Social Policy, Daniel Horsfall, Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy, University of York and Johanna Hanefeld, Lecturer in Health Systems Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

‘The authors take a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to examine key issues of the cross border movement of patients. State-of-the-art analysis is underpinned by extensive country studies. An essential read for policy makers, regulators, practitioners and students who want to understand, influence and shape this key dimension of the globalisation of health.’

• Contents:IntroductionPART I INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT1. The Shaping of Contemporary Medical Tourism and Patient MobilityNeil Lunt, Daniel Horsfall and Johanna Hanefeld2. Medical Tourism – Concepts and DefinitionsJohn Connell3. Medical Tourism by NumbersDaniel Horsfall and Neil Lunt4. Globalization and Trade in Health ServicesJohanna Hanefeld and Richard Smith5. Patients’ Willingness to TravelMark Exworthy and Stephen Peckham6. Travelling for Value: Global Drivers of Change in the Tertiary and Quarternary MarketsTricia J. Johnson and Andrew N. GarmanPART II MACRO-LEVEL CONSIDERATIONS7. Health Systems and Medical TourismPedro P. Barros8. The Economics of Health and Medical TourismDavid Reisman9. OECD Accounting for Trade in Healthcare David Morgan10. Financing MechanismsJohanna Hanefeld and Richard Smith11. The Implications of Medical Travel upon Equity in Lower and Middle Income CountriesAndrea Whittaker12. What’s Where? Why There? And Why Care? A Geography of Responsibility in Medical TourismMeghann OrmondPART III UNDERSTANDING ORGANISATIONS AND ACTIVITIES13. A Review of Small-Scale Niche Treatment ProvidersOlive N.Y. Cheung14. Regional Differences: Scope and Trust Among Medical Tourism FacilitatorsLydia L. Gan and James R. Frederick15. Government and Governance Strategies in Medical Tourism Meghann Ormond and Tomas Mainil16. Marketing Medical Tourism in KoreaKi Nam Jin 17. Medical Tourism and the Internet Daniel Horsfall and Neil Lunt18. Networks and Supply Chains: The Nature of Medical Tourism Markets Neil Lunt19. The Coming Perfect Storm: Medical Tourism as a Biosecurity IssueC. Michael Hall PART IV REGIONAL DIMENSIONS OF MEDICAL TOURISM 20. Diasporic Medical Return: Korean Immigrants’ Use of Homeland Medical ServicesJane Yeonjae Lee, Robin A. Kearns and Wardlow Friesen 21. Culture and Medical TravelElisa J. Sobo22. Use of Cross-Border Healthcare among ImmigrantsSigne Smith Jervelund and Line Neerup Handlos 23. Migration: The Mobility of Patients and Health ProfessionalsMargaret Walton-Roberts24. United States (US)-Mexico Bi-National Insurance Efforts and the Prospective Impacts of Health Care Reforms in the US and MexicoArturo Vargas Bustamante25. European Retirement Migration: Access to Health Care and Policy ImplicationsHelena Legido-Quigley and Martin Mckee26. Medical Tourism: A Case Study of ThailandThinnakorn Noree27. International Medical Travel Developments within Thailand and South-East AsiaAudrey Bochaton28. The National Context of Medical Travel within JapanHiroyoshi Endo, Serina Okamura and Masafumi Toya 29. Medical Tourism and Outward FDI in Health Services: India in South AsiaRupa Chanda30. Medical Tourism Developments within the Middle-EastNabil M. Kronfol31. Migration and Patient Mobility in Latin AmericaMax William Hadler32. The Rise of Medical Tourism to South AfricaJonathan Crush, Abel Chikanda, David Sanders and Belinda Maswikwa33. Medical Tourism Developments within TurkeySıdıka Kaya, Seda Karsavuran and Ahmet YıldızPART V ETHICAL, LEGAL AND REGULATORY34. Ethics of Medical TourismGuido Pennings35. Medical Tourism for Services Illegal in Patients’ Home CountryI. Glenn Cohen36. Child Medical Tourism: A New PhenomenonCharlotte Hamlyn-Williams, Monica Lakhanpaul and Logan Manikam37. Hospital Accreditation and Medical TourismCharles D. Shaw38. Medical Tourism and Trust: Towards an Agenda for ResearchMichael Calnan and Vid CalovskiPART VI MOTIVATION, CLINICAL EXPERIENCE AND OUTCOMES39. Putting the Thermal Back into Medical TourismMelanie Smith, László Puczkó and Ivett Sziva 40. Dental TourismArun Chandu41. Transplantation Tourism in Asia: Snapshot, Consequences and the Imperative for Policy ChangesAlex Jingwei He42. Cosmetic Surgery TourismRuth Holliday and David Bell43. Journey Without End: Travelling Overseas for Bariatric Surgery: A Qualitative Study of UK Patients Travelling for Bariatric SurgeryJohanna Hanefeld and Daniel Horsfall 44. Cross-Border Reproductive TravelNicky Hudson and Lorraine Culley45. ‘They Go the Extra Mile, the Extra Ten Miles…’: Examining Canadian Medical Tourists’ Interactions with Health Care Workers AbroadValorie A. Crooks, Victoria Casey, Rebecca Whitmore, Rory Johnston and Jeremy Snyder46. Outcomes and Medical TourismNeil Lunt and Daniel HorsfallIndex

Edited by Neil Lunt, Reader in Social Policy, Daniel Horsfall, Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy, University of York and Johanna Hanefeld, Lecturer in Health Systems Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

‘The authors take a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to examine key issues of the cross border movement of patients. State-of-the-art analysis is underpinned by extensive country studies. An essential read for policy makers, regulators, practitioners and students who want to understand, influence and shape this key dimension of the globalisation of health.’

• Contents:IntroductionPART I INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT1. The Shaping of Contemporary Medical Tourism and Patient MobilityNeil Lunt, Daniel Horsfall and Johanna Hanefeld2. Medical Tourism – Concepts and DefinitionsJohn Connell3. Medical Tourism by NumbersDaniel Horsfall and Neil Lunt4. Globalization and Trade in Health ServicesJohanna Hanefeld and Richard Smith5. Patients’ Willingness to TravelMark Exworthy and Stephen Peckham6. Travelling for Value: Global Drivers of Change in the Tertiary and Quarternary MarketsTricia J. Johnson and Andrew N. GarmanPART II MACRO-LEVEL CONSIDERATIONS7. Health Systems and Medical TourismPedro P. Barros8. The Economics of Health and Medical TourismDavid Reisman9. OECD Accounting for Trade in Healthcare David Morgan10. Financing MechanismsJohanna Hanefeld and Richard Smith11. The Implications of Medical Travel upon Equity in Lower and Middle Income CountriesAndrea Whittaker12. What’s Where? Why There? And Why Care? A Geography of Responsibility in Medical TourismMeghann OrmondPART III UNDERSTANDING ORGANISATIONS AND ACTIVITIES13. A Review of Small-Scale Niche Treatment ProvidersOlive N.Y. Cheung14. Regional Differences: Scope and Trust Among Medical Tourism FacilitatorsLydia L. Gan and James R. Frederick15. Government and Governance Strategies in Medical Tourism Meghann Ormond and Tomas Mainil16. Marketing Medical Tourism in KoreaKi Nam Jin 17. Medical Tourism and the Internet Daniel Horsfall and Neil Lunt18. Networks and Supply Chains: The Nature of Medical Tourism Markets Neil Lunt19. The Coming Perfect Storm: Medical Tourism as a Biosecurity IssueC. Michael Hall PART IV REGIONAL DIMENSIONS OF MEDICAL TOURISM 20. Diasporic Medical Return: Korean Immigrants’ Use of Homeland Medical ServicesJane Yeonjae Lee, Robin A. Kearns and Wardlow Friesen 21. Culture and Medical TravelElisa J. Sobo22. Use of Cross-Border Healthcare among ImmigrantsSigne Smith Jervelund and Line Neerup Handlos 23. Migration: The Mobility of Patients and Health ProfessionalsMargaret Walton-Roberts24. United States (US)-Mexico Bi-National Insurance Efforts and the Prospective Impacts of Health Care Reforms in the US and MexicoArturo Vargas Bustamante25. European Retirement Migration: Access to Health Care and Policy ImplicationsHelena Legido-Quigley and Martin Mckee26. Medical Tourism: A Case Study of ThailandThinnakorn Noree27. International Medical Travel Developments within Thailand and South-East AsiaAudrey Bochaton28. The National Context of Medical Travel within JapanHiroyoshi Endo, Serina Okamura and Masafumi Toya 29. Medical Tourism and Outward FDI in Health Services: India in South AsiaRupa Chanda30. Medical Tourism Developments within the Middle-EastNabil M. Kronfol31. Migration and Patient Mobility in Latin AmericaMax William Hadler32. The Rise of Medical Tourism to South AfricaJonathan Crush, Abel Chikanda, David Sanders and Belinda Maswikwa33. Medical Tourism Developments within TurkeySıdıka Kaya, Seda Karsavuran and Ahmet YıldızPART V ETHICAL, LEGAL AND REGULATORY34. Ethics of Medical TourismGuido Pennings35. Medical Tourism for Services Illegal in Patients’ Home CountryI. Glenn Cohen36. Child Medical Tourism: A New PhenomenonCharlotte Hamlyn-Williams, Monica Lakhanpaul and Logan Manikam37. Hospital Accreditation and Medical TourismCharles D. Shaw38. Medical Tourism and Trust: Towards an Agenda for ResearchMichael Calnan and Vid CalovskiPART VI MOTIVATION, CLINICAL EXPERIENCE AND OUTCOMES39. Putting the Thermal Back into Medical TourismMelanie Smith, László Puczkó and Ivett Sziva 40. Dental TourismArun Chandu41. Transplantation Tourism in Asia: Snapshot, Consequences and the Imperative for Policy ChangesAlex Jingwei He42. Cosmetic Surgery TourismRuth Holliday and David Bell43. Journey Without End: Travelling Overseas for Bariatric Surgery: A Qualitative Study of UK Patients Travelling for Bariatric SurgeryJohanna Hanefeld and Daniel Horsfall 44. Cross-Border Reproductive TravelNicky Hudson and Lorraine Culley45. ‘They Go the Extra Mile, the Extra Ten Miles…’: Examining Canadian Medical Tourists’ Interactions with Health Care Workers AbroadValorie A. Crooks, Victoria Casey, Rebecca Whitmore, Rory Johnston and Jeremy Snyder46. Outcomes and Medical TourismNeil Lunt and Daniel HorsfallIndex

Edited by Neil Lunt, Reader in Social Policy, Daniel Horsfall, Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy, University of York and Johanna Hanefeld, Lecturer in Health Systems Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

‘The authors take a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to examine key issues of the cross border movement of patients. State-of-the-art analysis is underpinned by extensive country studies. An essential read for policy makers, regulators, practitioners and students who want to understand, influence and shape this key dimension of the globalisation of health.’

• Contents:IntroductionPART I INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT1. The Shaping of Contemporary Medical Tourism and Patient MobilityNeil Lunt, Daniel Horsfall and Johanna Hanefeld2. Medical Tourism – Concepts and DefinitionsJohn Connell3. Medical Tourism by NumbersDaniel Horsfall and Neil Lunt4. Globalization and Trade in Health ServicesJohanna Hanefeld and Richard Smith5. Patients’ Willingness to TravelMark Exworthy and Stephen Peckham6. Travelling for Value: Global Drivers of Change in the Tertiary and Quarternary MarketsTricia J. Johnson and Andrew N. GarmanPART II MACRO-LEVEL CONSIDERATIONS7. Health Systems and Medical TourismPedro P. Barros8. The Economics of Health and Medical TourismDavid Reisman9. OECD Accounting for Trade in Healthcare David Morgan10. Financing MechanismsJohanna Hanefeld and Richard Smith11. The Implications of Medical Travel upon Equity in Lower and Middle Income CountriesAndrea Whittaker12. What’s Where? Why There? And Why Care? A Geography of Responsibility in Medical TourismMeghann OrmondPART III UNDERSTANDING ORGANISATIONS AND ACTIVITIES13. A Review of Small-Scale Niche Treatment ProvidersOlive N.Y. Cheung14. Regional Differences: Scope and Trust Among Medical Tourism FacilitatorsLydia L. Gan and James R. Frederick15. Government and Governance Strategies in Medical Tourism Meghann Ormond and Tomas Mainil16. Marketing Medical Tourism in KoreaKi Nam Jin 17. Medical Tourism and the Internet Daniel Horsfall and Neil Lunt18. Networks and Supply Chains: The Nature of Medical Tourism Markets Neil Lunt19. The Coming Perfect Storm: Medical Tourism as a Biosecurity IssueC. Michael Hall PART IV REGIONAL DIMENSIONS OF MEDICAL TOURISM 20. Diasporic Medical Return: Korean Immigrants’ Use of Homeland Medical ServicesJane Yeonjae Lee, Robin A. Kearns and Wardlow Friesen 21. Culture and Medical TravelElisa J. Sobo22. Use of Cross-Border Healthcare among ImmigrantsSigne Smith Jervelund and Line Neerup Handlos 23. Migration: The Mobility of Patients and Health ProfessionalsMargaret Walton-Roberts24. United States (US)-Mexico Bi-National Insurance Efforts and the Prospective Impacts of Health Care Reforms in the US and MexicoArturo Vargas Bustamante25. European Retirement Migration: Access to Health Care and Policy ImplicationsHelena Legido-Quigley and Martin Mckee26. Medical Tourism: A Case Study of ThailandThinnakorn Noree27. International Medical Travel Developments within Thailand and South-East AsiaAudrey Bochaton28. The National Context of Medical Travel within JapanHiroyoshi Endo, Serina Okamura and Masafumi Toya 29. Medical Tourism and Outward FDI in Health Services: India in South AsiaRupa Chanda30. Medical Tourism Developments within the Middle-EastNabil M. Kronfol31. Migration and Patient Mobility in Latin AmericaMax William Hadler32. The Rise of Medical Tourism to South AfricaJonathan Crush, Abel Chikanda, David Sanders and Belinda Maswikwa33. Medical Tourism Developments within TurkeySıdıka Kaya, Seda Karsavuran and Ahmet YıldızPART V ETHICAL, LEGAL AND REGULATORY34. Ethics of Medical TourismGuido Pennings35. Medical Tourism for Services Illegal in Patients’ Home CountryI. Glenn Cohen36. Child Medical Tourism: A New PhenomenonCharlotte Hamlyn-Williams, Monica Lakhanpaul and Logan Manikam37. Hospital Accreditation and Medical TourismCharles D. Shaw38. Medical Tourism and Trust: Towards an Agenda for ResearchMichael Calnan and Vid CalovskiPART VI MOTIVATION, CLINICAL EXPERIENCE AND OUTCOMES39. Putting the Thermal Back into Medical TourismMelanie Smith, László Puczkó and Ivett Sziva 40. Dental TourismArun Chandu41. Transplantation Tourism in Asia: Snapshot, Consequences and the Imperative for Policy ChangesAlex Jingwei He42. Cosmetic Surgery TourismRuth Holliday and David Bell43. Journey Without End: Travelling Overseas for Bariatric Surgery: A Qualitative Study of UK Patients Travelling for Bariatric SurgeryJohanna Hanefeld and Daniel Horsfall 44. Cross-Border Reproductive TravelNicky Hudson and Lorraine Culley45. ‘They Go the Extra Mile, the Extra Ten Miles…’: Examining Canadian Medical Tourists’ Interactions with Health Care Workers AbroadValorie A. Crooks, Victoria Casey, Rebecca Whitmore, Rory Johnston and Jeremy Snyder46. Outcomes and Medical TourismNeil Lunt and Daniel HorsfallIndex