Cultural Issues in Medical Tourism

Cultural Issues in Medical Learner Evaluation

To benefit from the broad range of perspectives and approaches brought by our increasingly diverse medical learner population, medical educators need to ensure that their efforts are designed to address the predictable complexities that diversity brings. This article considers the role that cultural factors might play in medical learner evaluation by describing how cultural differences can affe...

Ethical issues associated with medical tourism in Africa

Global disparities in medical technologies, laws, economic inequities, and social-cultural differences drive medical tourism (MT), the practice of travelling to consume healthcare that is either too delayed, unavailable, unaffordable or legally proscribed at home. Africa is simultaneously a source and destination for MT. MT however, presents a new and challenging health ethics frontier, being l...

Issues in Sustainable Tourism

Tourism offers an opportunity for major development as a linchpin industry in the structural adjustment necessary to transition to a lower carbon economy in some regions. Drivers for the development of a tourism industry can be primarily economic sustainability without due reference to environmental sustainability. Several issues are emerging including the need for regulation. There is a view i...

ETHICAL ISSUES IN MEDICAL STATISTICS

Medical statistics (biostatistics), as a vital essential part of modem life, does raise some fundamental ethical issues. Surprisingly, this aspect seems to have been totally ignored by books on medical ethics. This paper discusses how the statistical aspects affect the ethics. The relation between biostatistics and medical research is explored. All stages of a medical research exercise are ...

Cultural tourism: challenges and strategies