Travel abroad for healthcare has increased rapidly; interventions include organ transplant; cardiac surgery; reproductive care; and joint, cosmetic, and dental procedures. Individuals who receive medical care abroad are a vulnerable, sentinel population, who sample the local environment and can carry home unusual and resistant infections, documented in many reports. Medical tourists are at risk...

■ Social—With increasing attention on health and technological progress both home and abroad, home health care engineering (HHCE) is an emerging discipline. It advocates the concepts of medical treatment at home, self health care, and remote diagnosis, and combines technology with medical treatment. While addressing the trends of an aging society, soaring medical expenses, and increasing health...

Higher education in general (Bogue, 1998) and study abroad programming in particular (Gillespie, Braskamp & Braskamp, 1999) are hardly strangers to stringent demands for accountability. What is new to higher education and to study abroad is the demand for accountability in terms of measurable student learning outcomes. This article is a first report from a system-wide initiative to document lea...

Despite abundant anecdotal evidence that creativity is associated with living in foreign countries, there is currently little empirical evidence for this relationship. Five studies employing a multimethod approach systematically explored the link between living abroad and creativity. Using both individual and dyadic creativity tasks, Studies 1 and 2 provided initial demonstrations that time spe...

membership of the Board of the World Federation for Mental Health has stimulated but not created my interest in international work in the mental health field. Almost the first beginning pre-dated this by 16 years. Called to Switzerland by "Sepeg" immediately after the war, I learned vividly there the moral support and comfort which colleagues from other countries could give in dealing with such...

it summarises the author's long experience of malaria in India and in the tropics. The illustrations are mostly original and are particularly clear and well executed. Chapter I surveys the general life history of the malarial parasites and the mode of spread of malaria. Chapter II deals with the factors concerned in the spread of malaria: and brings out the important point that " even one infected

Ab.wacrThis paper presents ABROAD, an adaptive medium access control (MAC) protocol for reliable broadcast packet transmission in wireless networks. ABROAD incorporates a collision-avoidance handshake within each slot of a synchronous transmission schedule, allowing nodes to reclaim and/or rewe idle slots while maintaining bounded ac. cess delay. Thus, ABROAD provides worst-case performance gua...

This study applies an integrated model of college choice to better describe students who do and do not intend to study abroad. Although internationalization through study abroad is widely touted as a preferred means of developing globally competent college graduates, very little is known about the factors that influence students’ predisposition to study abroad. This research explores the impact...

Objective: This article reports findings from a UK-based study which explored the phenomenon of overseas travel for fertility treatment. The first phase of this project aimed to explore how infertility clinicians and others professionally involved in fertility treatment understand the nature and consequences of crossborder reproductive travel. Background: There are indications that, for a varie...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether modelling techniques can be used in the planning of health care facilities for patients requiring neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). METHODS In a micro-simulation model the number of patients that will have to be referred to facilities abroad is estimated for any number of neonatal ECMO patients presenting annually for treatment in The Nethe...