The health care sector is among the most rapidly growing sectors in the world economy. It is estimated to generate US$ 3 trillion per year in countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development alone and is expected to rise to US$ 4 trillion by 2005 (1, 2). The globalization of health services is reflected in the growing cross-border delivery of health services, through move...

A condition for the effective integration of Eurasian Economic Union member states economies is creating a set mechanisms use intellectual property objects in modern circumstances. With significant potential existing EAEU countries, process commercialization and not carried out sufficiently. Considering main purpose Union's functioning, this problem has to be solved comprehensively consistently...

We are pleased to present this special issue on experience and design methods. This issue has its origins in a workshop organised by Ron Wakkary, Thecla Schiphorst and Jim Budd (2004), titled ‘Cross-dressing and border crossing: exploring experience methods across disciplines’, held as part of the ACM SIGCHI 2004 conference in Vienna, Austria. The workshop was to all appearances among the stran...

Tens of thousands children living on Mainland China cross the border between Shenzhen and Hong Kong for a ‘better education’ every day. A well-oiled industry is in place to manage, facilitate control this education mobility field. It involves schools, diverse businesses non-governmental organisations that, articulation with Chinese states, stimulate regulate movement people, materialities, idea...

BACKGROUND In the past decade the issue of patient mobility has emerged on the European health policy agenda. Although the volume of patients crossing borders to obtain healthcare is low, it is increasing continuously and, due to its legal, financial and medical implications, has generated considerable interest among health policy and other decision makers. However, there is little information ...

The 1990s have seen a strong surge in the number of cross-border regions all over Western and Eastern Europe. The article analyses the emergence of these local cross-border institutions in public governance by addressing their context, dimensions and causal underpinnings. First, it offers a brief background on the history of cross-border regions in Europe and related EU policies to support them...

BACKGROUND Legal tobacco tax avoidance strategies such as cross-border cigarette purchasing may attenuate the impact of tax increases on tobacco consumption. Little is known about socioeconomic and country variations in cross-border purchasing. OBJECTIVE To describe socioeconomic and country variations in cross-border cigarette purchasing in six European countries. METHODS Cross-sectional d...