Ormond, Meghann and Lunt, Neil orcid.org/0000-0002-4501-1999 (2019) Transnational medical travel::Patient mobility, shifting health system entitlements and attachments. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. ISSN 1369-183X
Abstract
Transnational medical travel -- the temporary movement by patients across national borders in order to address medical concerns abroad that are unable to be sufficiently met within their countries of residence -- is an important therapeutic coping strategy used by growing proportions of peoples with a diverse range of mobility profiles and intensities of global moorings. Studying this phenomenon provides useful insight into the rapidly globalising era of health governance, where an ever-wider array of state and non-state actors are transcending the increasingly restrictive national containerisations of health care and engaging in cross-border action to effectively address contemporary health challenges at both individual and collective levels. In our introduction to this special issue on transnational medical travel, we draw on both ‘medical tourism’ and migrant health scholarship to acknowledge the diversity of motivations among migrant and non-migrant patients alike and the complex nature of mobile patients’ attachments to the multiple places in which they seek care. We then bring attention to how dynamic structural issues in mobile patients’ countries of residence and destination shape their attachments to places and health systems over time, examining the linkages between vitality of the political and social systems in these places to which they are differently attached and their dis/satisfaction and dis/enfranchisement with them.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Social Policy and Social Work (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 15 Apr 2019 16:10 |
Last Modified: | 22 Jan 2025 00:11 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1597465 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/1369183X.2019.1597465 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:145058 |
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