Sunday, 23 October 2016

Global Healthcare Policy & Management Forum, Seoul, South Korea - 18-21 October 2016

Global Healthcare Policy & Management Forum

With the rapid growth of global healthcare market, many social, ethical, and legal issues around this trend have emerged. However, scholars and experts around the world have few chances to talk with each other and develop ideas and solutions for global health issues. The goal of this forum is to develop academic insight and theoretical frameworks related to medical travel. This forum intends to be a sustainable platform for knowledge sharing of scholars and experts in global healthcare field.

Host

Yonsei Institute of Health and Welfare

Organizing Committee

Ki Nam Jin (Yonsei University, South Korea)

Neil Lunt (University of York, UK)

Meghann Ormond (Wageningen University and Research, The Nethelands)

Global Healthcare Policy & Management Forum - Part I
18-19 October 2016, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

18 October 2016, Tuesday
9:00 – 9:30	Registration
9:30 – 10:00	Opening Ceremony
	Jin, Ki Nam, Professor of Health Administration, Yonsei University
10:00 – 12:20	Session1 \| Policy & Governance Issues
Chairperson	Jin, Ki Nam Professor of Health Administration, Yonsei University
10:00 – 10:30	Resistance and the governance of international medical travel
	Meghann Ormond, Cultural Geography, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands
10:30 – 11:00	US healthcare in a global context: Roles and motivations of providers and the state
	Andrew N. Garman, Dept of Health System Management, Rush University, US
11:00 – 11:20	Tea/Coffee Break
11:20 – 11:50	The Governance of medical travel in Japan
	Mika Toyota, Dept of Culture and Tourism Studies, Rikkyo University, Japan
11:50 – 12:20	Cross-border patient mobility in the Greater China region: Emerging issues and health policy implications
	Alex Jingwei He, Dept of Asian and Policy Studies, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
12:20 – 13:40	*Lunch (Hosted by Korea Tourism Organization)*
13:40 – 16:00	Session2 \| Asian Experiences & Issues
Chairperson	Valorie A. Crooks Dept of Geograghy, Simon Fraser Univ., Canada
13:40 – 14:10	Medical tourism in Korea: Current Status and Future Plans
	Lee, In Sook, Deputy director of Medical Wellness Tourism Team, Korea Tourism Organization
14:10 – 14:40	Recent trend of Japanese government policy on medical tourism
	Serina Okamura, Dept of Health Service Management, International University of Health and Welfare, Japan
14:40 – 15:00	Tea/Coffee Break
15:00 – 15:30	Beyond medical travel: The SingaporeMedicine experience
	Jason CH Yap, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
15:30 – 16:00	Staying relevant: The Malaysia healthcare travel story
	Sherene Azli, CEO, Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council, Malaysia
16:00 – 17:00	Wrap-up Session
	Jin, Ki Nam, Professor of Health Administration, Yonsei University Valorie A. Crooks, Dept of Geograghy, Simon Fraser University, Canada Meghann Ormond, Cultural Geography, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands Tricia Johnson, Dept of Health System Management, Rush University, US

Global Healthcare Policy & Management Forum - Part II
21 October 2016, Medical Korea 2016, Coex, Seoul, South Korea

Friday, 14 October 2016

New book: Public Health and Private Wealth (S. Hodges and M. Rao, eds.)

Public Health and Private Wealth: Stem Cells, Surrogates, and Other Strategic Bodies
Edited by Sarah Hodges and Mohan Rao, 2016, Oxford University Press

Website: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/public-health-and-private-wealth-9780199463374?cc=nl&lang=en&

Presents a novel approach to the politics of health in modern India;

Cuts across studies of development and demography, research laboratories and the rural and urban poor;

Transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries, combining the methodologies of anthropologists, sociologists, health economists, science studies scholars and historians

Poverty whether as drain theory at the start of the twentieth century or through garibi hatao towards the end of those 100 yearswas the predominant economic, political, and social paradigm within which late colonial, nationalist and post-independence era science policy was constructed. Whether as critics of Indias poverty, or as architects of measures for its eradication, Indias commentators called on a broad framework of science both to diagnose and treat poverty. Yet, when we think of science in India today, this earlier priority of poverty eradication is now hard to find. Poverty eradication as a goal in itself seems to have fallen off Indias scientific agenda almost entirely. What accounts for this? This volume asks: Has the problem of poverty in India been solved? Or, has it become inconvenient alongside the rise of new narratives that frame India as a site of remarkable economic growth? Indeed, has there been a loss of faith in the ability of science to tackle poverty? Together, the essays in this volume explore the broader implications for the new role of science in India: as a driver of economic growth for India, rather than as a solution to the persistence of poverty.

Friday, 29 July 2016

Call for sessions and papers: The Value of Life: Measurement, Stakes, Implications -- 28-30 June 2017 -- Wageningen, The Netherlands

The Value of Life: Measurement, Stakes, Implications

International Conference

Wageningen, The Netherlands

28-30 June 2017

Conference website: https://centreforspaceplacesociety.wordpress.com/2017-conference/

This is a first announcement for the June 2017 international conference organised by the Centre for Space, Place and Society (CSPS) at Wageningen University in The Netherlands. The full call for papers and organised sessions will be available in September 2016.

How to properly conceive of, value, measure, sustain and improve on ‘life’ – in its myriad forms and at a range of scales – is becoming an increasingly profound concern in the 21^st century. In this age of computing and other significant technological advances, intensified measures of quantification are enabling us to identify and capitalise on new insights into countless dimensions of ‘life’ that had previously escaped our awareness and comprehension. Wary of the implications of this, however, others argue for a need to move away from quantification entirely to refocus on the qualitative conditions under which ‘life’ – human and/or nonhuman – is best sustained. Our conference aims to engage with this debate, asking what is at stake in contestations over appropriate standards for measuring and valuing ‘life’? How is ‘life’ variously categorized and defined in such different systems of measure? What are the oppositions, trade-offs, and potential complementarities between quantitative and qualitative assessments?

The conference will enable interaction among scholars in the social and natural sciences, practitioners, members of civil society and policymakers with interests in the politics of ‘life’ writ large. A variety of session formats will be invited, including traditional paper presentation sessions, artistic performances, roundtable discussions, posters, etc. Sessions that bring together participants from different fields and backgrounds (e.g., the natural and the social sciences; civil society, policymakers and scholars; etc.) are especially encouraged.

For further information, please contact the conference organisers by emailing britt.broekhaus@wur.nl and/orrobert.fletcher@wur.nl.

Centre for Space, Place and Society @ Wageningen University

The Centre for Space, Place and Society (CSPS) brings together researchers from three Wageningen University (WUR) chair groups – Cultural Geography (GEO), Rural Sociology (RSO) and Sociology of Development Change (SDC) – and beyond to advance critical-constructive scholarship within the social sciences. Our particular focus is on issues of socio-spatial and environmental justice. In investigating dynamics of spatial and social rootedness, connections, and circulations, with special attention to questions of inequality, exclusion, difference and plurality, CSPS seeks to translate knowledge into practical action in pursuit of a more just and equitable world.

Sunday, 10 April 2016

New book: Bodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals (Parry,Greenhough,Brown and Dyck, eds)

Bodies Across Borders:

The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals

Ashgate, 2015

Authors: Bronwyn Parry,Beth Greenhough,Tim Brown,Isabel Dyck

Abstract:

Historically organised at a local or national scale, the fields of medicine and healthcare are being radically transformed by new communication, transport and biotechnologies creating, in the process, a genuinely globalised sphere of biomedical production and consumption. This emerging market is characterised by the circulation of bodily materials (tissues, organs and bio-information), patients and expertise across what traditionally have been relatively secure ontological and geographical borders. Crossing both disciplinary and geographical boundaries, this volume draws together a number of important contributions from acknowledged leaders in three respective fields: the trade in bodily commodities, biomedical tourism and migration of health care professionals. It explores and maps out the key characteristics of this emerging, although as yet poorly researched global trade, questioning how, where and why bodies cross borders, whether this exacerbates existing health inequalities and how these circulations impact on healthcare services. Considered together, the chapters in this volume invite comparisons of the ways in which body parts, patients and medical professionals cross national borders, elucidating common themes, concerns and issues. Contributors also pose important questions about the ethical and legal implications of the circulation of bodies across borders and evaluate current and future strategies for regulation.

Contents:

Preface; Introduction, Bronwyn Parry, Beth Greenhough, Tim Brown and Isabel Dyck.
Part I

Corporeal Circulations: Biobanking across borders, Ruth Chadwick and Alan O’Connor;
Masculinity under the knife: Filipino men, trafficking and the black organ market in Manila, the Philippines, Sallie Yea;
A bull market? Devices of qualification and singularisation in the international marketing of US sperm, Bronwyn Parry.

Part II

Transnational Bio-Medical Tourism: Transnational health care: global markets and local marginalisation in medical tourism,
John Connell; Bioethics, transnational health care and the global marketplace in health services,
Leigh Turner; Risks and challenges for patients crossing borders for infertility treatment, Wannes Van Hoof and Guido Pennings.

Part III

Migrating Medical Expertise: ‘Real nursing work’ versus ‘charting and sweet talking’: the challenges of incorporation into US urban health care settings for Indian immigrant nurses, Sheba George;
Nurses across borders: the international migration of health professionals, Stephen Bach.

Part IV

Regulating Bodies across Borders: Medical tourism for services legal in the home and destination country: legal and ethical issues, Glenn Cohen;
Race to the bottom or race to the top? Governing medical tourism in a globalised world, Ingrid Schneider;
Dislodging the direct-to-consumer marketing of stem cell-based interventions from medical tourism, Tamra Lysaght and Douglas Sipp.

Reviews:
‘Detailing a new double movement of 21st century globalization, this compelling collection of essays underlines that disembedded market forces have far from disembodied or flattening outcomes on the ground. Instead, from global trade in organs and sperm, to the cross-border movements of medical tourists and healthworkers, we are introduced to worlds of extraordinarily uneven and unequal embodiments of global interdependency - embodiments across borders which, as the contributors explore with care, have vitally important implications for the global body politic.’
Matt Sparke, University of Washington, USA

‘This timely and fascinating collection explores a rich diversity of cultural, economic and legal practices, vividly demonstrating the intense translational flows of biomedical objects, practitioners and clientele which form part of contemporary biomedicine and their important implications for how we navigate the boundaries between ourselves and our nations.’
Anne Kerr, University of Leeds, UK

Saturday, 19 March 2016

CFP: 3rd International Symposium on Transnational Aging: "Long-term care for the elderly across borders" - Mainz, Germany - 6-7 Oct. 2016

3rd International Symposium on Transnational Aging: "Long-term care for the elderly across borders"
Institute of Education, University of Mainz, Germany
October 6-7, 2016

Call for Abstracts
Due to demographic changes old age care systems in many industrialized countries have become under pressure. Rising public and private costs as well as serious concerns about the quality of elderly care characterize current debates. At the same time, responsibilities between the market, the state, the family, and third sector organisations are re-defined and re-negotiated. In this context, we observe the emergence of new LTC arrangements that span the borders of nation-states. The employment of 24/7 migrant care workers in many European and North American countries, the establishment of old age facilities for “Western” elderly in low cost countries as well as the increasing border crossing influences on local LTC services (for instance by recruitment programs for care workers from abroad) are some examples of this development. Despite the raising academic and public awareness of this development especially the user’s perspective still remains largely unexplored.

Recent developments also show that transnational care arrangements are influenced by the general trend of an increasing diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) into LTC for the elderly. Assisted living systems or health care apps apparently reduce the necessity of physical co-presence while instant voice messaging or web based video conferencing generate new forms of virtual togetherness. For transnational families, for example, this might offer new possibilities of care for the elderly from the distance. However, little is known about the function, meaning and significance of ICTs in LTC for the elderly in general and in transnational contexts in particular.

The symposium encourages the exchange of ideas that help to explore, understand and theorize transnational LTC for the elderly as well as its relation to ITCs. Accordingly, we invite empirical and methodological as well as theoretical contributions from the social sciences and related disciplines. Questions of interest include but are not limited to the following:

How do transnational developments in LTC relate to the needs, demands and rights of the elderly and other actors involved? What social chances and costs are implied? Who profits from this development and who does not?
How is care delivered and what concepts of care emerge in transnational LTC arrangements? How are the elderly positioned in these arrangements and how do they impact their agency?
How are ICTs used in transnational LTC arrangements and with what consequences? How do ICTs alter the nature of social interaction in the context of LTC for the elderly and how can we theorize these new ICT-human relationships?

Participants will be selected based on abstracts, which should not exceed 400 words and must be submitted via email by April 15, 2016 to the following email address: aging@transsos.com .

Location and date: The workshop will take place at the Institute of Education, University of Mainz, Germany, October 6-7, 2016.

Organization: The symposium is organized by the research group Transnational Aging in cooperation with the Research Center Transnational Social Support (TRANSSOS) at the Institute of Education, University of Mainz (Germany).

Symposium committee: Désirée Bender, Sonja Großmann, Tina Hollstein, Vincent Horn and Cornelia Schweppe

Thursday, 17 March 2016

Upcoming conference: 8th International Forum for Health Tourism - Romania - 21-23 April 2016

The central aim of the International Forum for Health Tourism (IFHT) is to create a platform for debate between leading medical and tourism practitioners, academics, representatives of Romanian public authorities, as well as national and international certification bodies in medical and health tourism.

An underlining objective of the Forum is to examine the international context of medical tourism and to generate a better understanding of Romania’s potential as a destination for health and medical tourism. IFTS encourages discussions that relate research with practice and strives to facilitate a dialogue between academics, various medical and tourism practitioners, and public authorities.

We invite speakers to present papers that focus on issues such as:

quality management in the provision of health services;
the strengths and weaknesses of medical tourism destinations;
the impact of policies and governmental strategies on health tourism;
international competitiveness and innovative marketing strategies in the export of health services;
international patients’ experiences and safety.

We also welcome proposals from speakers wishing to discuss other aspects of health tourism.

Those interested to attend are requested to send an abstract to maria.gorska@fundatia-amfiteatru.ro by March 28.

The 8^th edition of the International Forum for Health Tourism is organised by the Amphitheatre Foundation in partnership with the National Authority for Quality Management in Healthcare and it is held under the auspices of the Medical Cluster ‘Health Romania’. This edition of the Forum will take place in Râmnicu-Vâlcea, between 21-23 April 2016. For details regarding the costs of the conference, please follow the link below and see details provided under Registration.

http://amphitheatreconferences.gm.ro/current-conferences/international-forum-for-health-tourism-eighth-edition/

CFP: Public Health Panorama - special issue on migration and health in the European region

December issue - Deadline for submission: 30-07-2016

Migration and health

Public Health Panorama invites papers for its first thematic issue on the topic of migration and health in the European Region. With the arrival of over 1 million refugees and migrants in Europe in 2015, our Region is facing an unprecedented situation, which calls for an urgent response to their health needs, by actions between and within countries and among sectors.

The papers for the December 2016 issue of Public Health Panorama should focus on migration and health, They may represent scientific research findings on the health status of refugees and migrants in the European Region and their access to community health and care services, case studies of best practices and experience in integrating the health needs of refugees and migrants into national cross-sectoral policies, strategies and plans.

Health status, access to health care and public heath interventions for refugees and migrants in the European Region

Advancing the research agenda on the health of refugees and migrants is essential for making evidence-informed policy recommendations. One of the objectives of this Panorama issue is to offer a platform for new research in this area. Therefore, papers are invited that provide new evidence on the health status and access to health care of refugees and migrants in the European Region and on public health strengthening to meet that need.

Integrating the health needs of refugees and migrants into national cross-sectoral policies, strategies and plans

While migration is a perennial global phenomenon, the current migration crisis requires urgent action to integrate the health needs of refugees and migrants adequately into national policies, strategies and plans, so that they protect and promote the health of these vulnerable populations as well as their host communities. This is "easier said than done". This Panorama issue will welcome country experiences and best practices in this field, as sharing of such information is fundamental to inter-country cooperation in order to provide appropriate responses to common challenges. Priority will be given to papers that describe whole-of-government, whole-of-society and health-in-all-policies approaches, i.e. those that address the links among social and economic policies and sectors to ensure better health outcomes and less health inequity, in the spirit of the Health 2020 vision.

After the discussions on migration and health at the margins of the meeting of the Regional Committee for Europe in September 2015, European ministers of health decided to meet again to discuss a common understanding and agreed action for meeting the health needs of migrants and refugees. The High-level Meeting on Refugee and Migrant Health held in Rome in November 2015 was attended by high-level representatives of 50 countries in the European, Eastern Mediterranean and African regions and from several other United Nations agencies and international organizations.

The result of the discussions are published in the outcome document Stepping up action on refugee and migrant health. European Member States agreed to develop a common framework for collaborative action on refugee and migrant health, based on solidarity and mutual assistance and in the spirit of the 2030 Sustainable Development agenda, whereby "no one should be left behind". Migration and health will be one of the main items for discussion at the meeting of the Regional Committee for Europe in September 2016.

Guidelines for submitting papers

We invite papers that describe research and new evidence on the health status and access to health care of refugees and migrants in the European Region. We also welcome papers on good practice in integrating the health needs of refugees and migrants into national cross-sectoral policies, strategies and plans. Priority will be given to those papers based on approaches to ensure equity and those that describe successful practices, innovative solutions and lesson learnt.

We welcome papers that document experience from low-income countries and those with economies in transition. Manuscripts may be submitted in either English or Russian. The deadline for submissions is 30 July 2016.Manuscripts should respect the guidelines for contributors and mention this call for papers in a covering letter. All submissions will undergo the peer-review process of Public Health Panorama. For further queries, please seehttp://bit.ly/1PNcJOS or contact panorama@euro.who.int.

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