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Mainil, T. (2015). Medical Sociology as a Heuristic Instrument for Medical Tourism and Cross-Border Healthcare; Comment on “International Patients on Operation Vacation – Perspectives of Patients Travelling to Hungary for Orthopedic Treatments”. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 4(4), 243-244. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.37
Tomas Mainil. "Medical Sociology as a Heuristic Instrument for Medical Tourism and Cross-Border Healthcare; Comment on “International Patients on Operation Vacation – Perspectives of Patients Travelling to Hungary for Orthopedic Treatments”". International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 4, 4, 2015, 243-244. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.37
Mainil, T. (2015). 'Medical Sociology as a Heuristic Instrument for Medical Tourism and Cross-Border Healthcare; Comment on “International Patients on Operation Vacation – Perspectives of Patients Travelling to Hungary for Orthopedic Treatments”', International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 4(4), pp. 243-244. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.37
Mainil, T. Medical Sociology as a Heuristic Instrument for Medical Tourism and Cross-Border Healthcare; Comment on “International Patients on Operation Vacation – Perspectives of Patients Travelling to Hungary for Orthopedic Treatments”. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2015; 4(4): 243-244. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.37

Medical Sociology as a Heuristic Instrument for Medical Tourism and Cross-Border Healthcare; Comment on “International Patients on Operation Vacation – Perspectives of Patients Travelling to Hungary for Orthopedic Treatments”

Article 8, Volume 4, Issue 4, April 2015, Page 243-244  XML PDF (270 K)
Document Type: Commentary
DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.37
Author
Tomas Mainil 1, 2
1Scaldis Academy, HZ University of Applied Sciences, Vlissingen, The Netherlands
2CELLO, Sociology of Health, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Abstract
In this commentary, we establish a relationship between medical sociology and the study of medical tourism and cross-border healthcare by introducing Ronald Andersen’s behavioral model of healthcare use, and linking this model to the recent empirical study of Kovacs et al. on patients travelling to Hungary for orthopedic treatment. Finally, we plead for more measurement in the field of patient mobility.
Keywords
Cross-border Healthcare; Behavioral Model of Health Services; Medical Tourism
Main Subjects
Health Policy Analysis; Social Science in Health/Medicine
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