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”
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Kerman University of Medical Sciences
2015-04-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Health Policy and Management |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ijhpm.com/pdf_2965_ebdfb86f1114cb33094b37509bed4c0c.html |