‘Europeanised’ health professional education fosters cost-effective cross-border emergency care

Reflections on Health Tourism and Cross-Border Health Care

Public Provision and Cross-Border Health Care

We study how the optimal public provision of health care depends on whether or not individuals have an option to seek publicly financed treatment in other regions. We find that, relative to the first-best solution, the government has an incentive to over-provide health care to low-income individuals. When crossborder health care takes place, this incentive is solely explained by that overprovis...

State of the science in health professional education: effective feedback.

BACKGROUND Effective feedback may be defined as feedback in which information about previous performance is used to promote positive and desirable development. This can be challenging as educators must acknowledge the psychosocial needs of the recipient while ensuring that feedback is both honest and accurate. Current feedback models remain reductionist in their approach. They are embedded in t...

Cost-effective health care: the Rochester experience.

Rochester, New York, has been cited repeatedly for having achieved one of the most cost-effective and efficient health care systems in the country. The determinants of the success of this system include a long history of comprehensive health planning; innovative hospital reimbursement programs; community-rated health insurance; and high levels of mutual cooperation among business, insurers, hos...

Pnm-7: Cross-Border Reproductive Care or Fertility Tourism

Background: The fertility tourism is a term refers to the cross-border movements made by infertile patients in order to receive reproductive treatment through assisted reproductive technology. In recent years the number of countries involved in medical tourism has been increased. The aim of this study is to provide an overview of the research that has explored aspects of crossborder reproductiv...