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| Title |
Patients without Borders: Understanding Medical Travel
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Medical Anthropology, November 2010
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| DOI | 10.1080/01459740.2010.501318 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Andrea Whittaker, Lenore Manderson, Elizabeth Cartwright |
| Abstract |
The rapidly growing medical travel industry has implications for the health systems of both sending and receiving countries. This article outlines the political economy of the industry and the potential opportunities and disadvantages it poses for access, equity, and the right to health. Although the trade carries economic benefits for countries receiving foreign medical patients, it comes at a cost to the provision of public health, through distortions in the health workforce and the development of two-tiered health systems. Inequalities and failures in the health systems of sending countries largely drive the need to travel for care. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 1 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 89 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| Czechia | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 85 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 15% |
| Researcher | 11 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 11 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 7% |
| Other | 14 | 16% |
| Unknown | 18 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 28 | 31% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 16 | 18% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 8 | 9% |
| Psychology | 4 | 4% |
| Philosophy | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 11 | 12% |
| Unknown | 20 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 March 2018.
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#168
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#14,486
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#2
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