An understanding of patient mobility, international patients and medical tourism includes supply and demand side considerations. As well as micro-level reports of motivation and satisfaction we must acknowledge broader system-level dynamics. Exploring these may unearth more complex geographies of patient travel.

The pancreatic amylase (AMY2, E.C. 3.2.1.1) polymorphism has been studied in 2346 individuals from south-central and south-eastern Bulgaria. The allele frequencies have been determined as AMY2*1 = 0.9520 and AMY2*2 = 0.0480. The neighbor joining tree of seven subpopulations revealed only small genetic distances. Compared with other populations, the Bulgarian sample clustered with samples from R...

The ongoing outbreak of West Nile virus (WNV) infections in humans in Greece described in this issue of Eurosurveillance is a timely reminder that WNV is a reemerging pathogen in Europe [1]. So far, WNV has been documented in animals and humans in several countries across Europe, mainly in central Europe and in the Mediterranean region. Over the last 15 years, outbreaks in horses and/or humans ...

This study is aimed at estimation of the exchange rate volatility and its impact on business cycle fluctuations in four central eastern European countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania). Exchange estimated with EGARCH(1,1) model. It found that affected by components Index Economic Freedom from Heritage Foundation, besides inflation crisis developments. The empirical results usin...

Equine infectious anaemia (EIA) is a disease with an almost worldwide distribution and is of considerable importance to the equine industry, primarily because it is one of only 11 notifiable equine specific diseases listed by the World Organisation For Animal Health (OIE). Equine infectious anaemia is caused by EIAV (equine infectious anaemia virus), a blood-borne retrovirus belonging to the le...

Aim: To describe vitreoretinal surgical services in 1998 in 12 eastern European countries and to identify ways for their further improvement. Methods: All inpatient eye departments in the 12 countries received a standardised questionnaire; the data obtained were processed at the international study coordinating centre in Prague. Results: All 458 eye departments in the region were involved. The ...

From the economic point of view, the problems created by the huge differences in income levels between the applying countries (see Carius, Homeyer and Baer, 2000) are even more important. This is also true for the five Central and East-European Countries (CEECs), who in the opinion of the European Council are already meeting the requirements mentioned above, and with whom formal accession negot...

AIM To describe vitreoretinal surgical services in 1998 in 12 eastern European countries and to identify ways for their further improvement. METHODS All inpatient eye departments in the 12 countries received a standardised questionnaire; the data obtained were processed at the international study coordinating centre in Prague. RESULTS All 458 eye departments in the region were involved. The...

In 2006, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC) with eleven Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) universities and academic organizations from six countries (Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine) formed the Regional Cooperation for Health, Science and Technology Consortium. In 2012, CSMC converted the Consortium into the Association for Regional Cooperation in the Fields of H...