Links to academic and policy references on medical travel

These links sections will be updated from time to time, so please check back. Meanwhile, I've discovered a continuously revised list of publications on medical travel hosted by Dr Robert Bristow of Westfield State College: http://www.wsc.ma.edu/medicaltourism/medtourbib.htm

General

• Acharyulu, G.V.R.K. & Reddy, B. Krishna. (2004) ‘Hospital Logistics Strategy for Medical Tourism’, presented at Supply Chain Seminar: An International Conference on Logistics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 10-11 June.
  
• Bennett, Trude (2009) 'Medical Tourism: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?', Intensive workshop on health systems in transition, University of Malaya, 29-30 April.
  
• Bennett, Trude (2009) 'Perspectives', Medical Travel Today, 7 August.
  
• Caballero-Danell, Sara & Mugomba, Chipo (2006) 'Medical tourism and its entrepreneurial opportunities - A conceptual framework for entry into the industry', Tourism and Hospitality Management, Masters thesis no. 2006:91, School of Business, Economics and Law, Goteborg University, Sweden.
  
• Carrera, Percivil M. & Bridges, John F.P. (2006) 'Globalization and healthcare: Understanding health and medical tourism', Expert Review of Pharmaceutics Outcomes, 6(4): 447-454.
  
• Connell, John (2006) 'Medical tourism: Sea, sun, sand and... surgery', Tourism Management, 27.
• Cortez, Nathan (2008) 'Patients without borders: The emerging global market for patients and the evolution of modern health care', Indiana Law Journal, 83, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 00-24.
• Brooker, Ed & Go, Frank M. (????) ‘Health care tourism – A classic example of disruptive innovation’
• Mattoo, Aaditya & Rathindran, Randeep (2005) 'Does health insurance impede trade in health care services?', World Bank, Policy Research Working Paper WPS3667.
• Mattoo, Aaditya & Rathindran, Randeep (2006) 'How health insurance inhibits trade in healthcare', Health Affairs, March/April.
• Milstein, Arthur & Smith, Mark (2007) 'Will the surgical world become flat?', Health Affairs, January/February.
  
• Herman, Lior. (2009) 'Assessing international trade in health services', ECIPE Working Paper 03/2009.
• Turner, Leigh (2007) 'First world health care at third world prices': Globalization, bioethics and medical tourism', BioSocieties, 2: 303-325.
  

Asia

• Arunanondchai, Jutamas & Fink, Carsten (2007) 'Trade in health services in the ASEAN region', Health Promotion International, 21(S1).
  
• Chee, Heng Leng (2007) 'Medical Tourism in Malaysia: International Movement of Healthcare Consumers and the Commodification of Healthcare', ARI Working Paper Series, no. 83, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
• Chinai, Rupa & Goswami, Rahul (2007) 'Medical visas mark growth of Indian medical tourism', Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 95(3), March.
• Henderson, Joan C. (2003) 'Healthcare tourism in Southeast Asia', Tourism Review International, 7(3-4): 111-121.
• Ono, Mayumi (2008) 'Long-Stay Tourism and International Retirement Migration: Japanese Retirees in Malaysia', Yamashita et al., eds. Transnational Migration in East Asia
  Senri Ethnological Reports, 77: 151–162.
• Richman, Barak D., Udayakumar, Krishna, Mitchell, Will & Schulman, Kevin A. (2008) 'Lessons from India in organizational innovation: A tale of two heart hospitals', Health Affairs, 27, no. 5 (2008): 1260-1270.
• Tata, Srinivas (2007) 'Medical travel in Asia and the Pacific: Challenges and Opportunities', United National Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.
  
• Yap, Chin Huat Jason (2006) 'Medical Tourism / Medical Travel - Part One' and 'Medical Tourism / Medical Travel - Part Two', SMA News, May and July, 38(5) and 38(7).
  

Americas

• Altman, Stuart H., Shactman, David & Eilat, Efra (2006) 'Could US hospitals go the way of US airlines?', Health Affairs, January/February.
• Jenner, Elizabeth Anne (2008) 'Unsettled borders of care: Medical tourism as a new dimension in America's health care crisis', Research in the Sociology of Health Care, 26: 235-249.
  
• Milstein, Arthur & Smith, Mark (2006) 'America's new refugees - Seeking afforable surgery offshore', New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 355:1637-1640, 19 Oct.
• Scandlen, Greg(2005) 'Consumer-Driven Health Care: Just A Tweak Or A Revolution?', Health Affairs, November/December.
  
• Sood, Arun & Cox, Erin (2008) 'Medical tourism: A strategy for containing health care cost increases and immigration pull', Working Papers in Global Studies, 2, September, Center for Global Studies, George Mason University.
  

European Union

• Bertinato, Luigi & Canapero, Marina (2008) 'Health tourism. The growth phenomenon', Asian Hospital and Healthcare Management, Issue 16.
• European Union (2006) 'Position paper on cross-border healthcare'.
• House of Lords (2007) 'Cross-border health services in the European Union - Report with evidence', European Union Committee, 8th Report of Session 2006-2007, HL Paper 48.
  
• Leidl, Reiner & Rhodes, Grant (1997) 'Cross-border healthcare in the European Union: An introduction', European Journal of Public Health, 7 (3 supplement): 1-3.
  
• Morgan, Derek (2003) 'Medical tourism: Ethical baggage and legal currencies', Medical Ethics Tomorrow, United Kingdom, 3 December.
  
• Pennings, Guido (2004) 'Legal harmonisation and reproductive tourism in Europe', Human Reproduction, 19(12): 2689-2694.

Middle East

• Ghods, A.J. & Nasrollahzadeh, D. (2005) 'Transplant tourism and the Iranian model of renal transplantation program: ethical considerations', Experimental and Clinical Transplantation, Dec., 3(2): 351-354.
• Kangas, Beth (2002) 'Therapeutic itineraries in a global world: Yemenis and their search for biomedical treatment abroad', Medical Anthropology, 21: 35-78.
  

Medical Tourism City

An interesting new online community called 'Medical Tourism City' has recently sprouted up: http://www.medicaltourismcity.com/. It seems to be pretty interactive and includes groups, forums, chat space, blogs, events postings and the like. There's a group dedicated to Medical Tourism Research, set up by Prof David Vequist (find out more about his group's work at http://www.medicaltourismresearch.org), and one on Ethics in Medical Tourism, set up by Dr Steve Green, a physician involved in the Trent Accreditation Scheme for Hospitals.

Visual/audio reports on medical travel

• 'Can't Go Home: Americans in Canada Share Health Care Stories', 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TWuO5dBYjo
• 'Medical Exiles', The Current, CBC Radio, 25/9/2009: http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2009/09/25/september-25-2009/
  
• Medical Tourism Association's Angels Overseas documentary, Dec. 2009: http://medicaltourismassociation.com/documentary.html
• Medical Tourism, Australia Talks, ABC Radio National, 15/10/2009: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/australiatalks/stories/2009/2713003.htm
• Medical Tourism in Asia, interview with Dr Andrea Whittaker, University of Melbourne's Up Close radio programme, Episode 13: http://upclose.unimelb.edu.au/episode/13
• Healthcare and transnational mobility in Asia, roundtable including Dr Chee Heng Leng's talk on 'Medical Tourism', April 2008: http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/publication_details.asp?pubtypeid=AU&pubid=1285
• Josef Woodman's address to the APHM/ISQua/ASQua Conference in Kuala Lumpur for the launch of the Patients Beyond Borders - Malaysian Edition, July 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2anJAYbBA5Q&feature=related
• CNN's Sanjay Gupta reporting on medical tourism to India. Video available at: http://medicaltourism.com/video-detail.php?video=afpAneB7Br8&lang=en
• Riz Khan does a great weekly show on Aljazeera's English language channel, and on 8 September 08 it was dedicated to 'medical tourism', with guests Joe Woodman, Wise Young and Vishal Bali. Check out: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/rizkhan/2008/09/200896143547130459.html
• Devon Herrick (moderator), Milica Bookman and Rudy Rupak, 'Global Health Care: Medical Travel and Medical Outsourcing', National Association for Business Economics, Health Economics Roundtable Teleconference, 25 July 2007. Audivailable at http://www.nabe.com/podcasts/070725hrt.mp3.
• US Senate Special Committee on Aging Hearing, 'The Globalization of Health Care: Can Medical Tourism Reduce Health Care Costs?', 27 June 2006. Webcast available at http://aging.senate.gov/hearing_detail.cfm?id=270728&
• 'A passage to India for medical tourism', National Public Radio's All Things Considered, 26 March 2005. Available at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4562670
  
• 'Medical tourism', ABC National Radio's Background Briefing, 20 February 2005. Transcript available at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s1308505.htm