BACKGROUND Medical tourism involves patients intentionally leaving their home country to access non-emergency health care services abroad. Growth in the popularity of this practice has resulted in a significant amount of attention being given to it from researchers, policy-makers, and the media. Yet, there has been little effort to systematically synthesize what is known about the effects of th...

This paper argues that new immigrants cluster in culturally homogenous groups in the host country because of imperfect information. However, the pulling-effect exists provided that the cultural communities are not too large. With a panel of migration flows to the major OECD countries from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, it is shown that the existence of similar cultural communities does attract...

The distance vector routing protocol satisfies the following property. If this protocol is used to route a sequence of data messages from a source to a destination, then these data messages will follow the same shortest-distance path from the source to the destination. In this paper, we show how to modify this protocol, without adding new messages, in order to satisfy the following load balanci...

Received: September 27, 2016 Revised: October 26, 2016 Accepted: October 27, 2016 Abstract: Background: More and more developing nations are promoting cross-border medical tourism as a way to enhance economic growth. Major destinations for medical tourism in South and Southeast Asia include India, Thailand, Malaysia and wealthy Singapore. Much has been written on the pros and cons of the growth...

As the 2008 Global Financial Crisis shows, economic crises impact not only international migrants but also their countries of source and destination. However there is an earlier episode – the Great Depression of the 1930s – in the context of Chinese migrants to Southeast Asia where important lessons can be drawn. This paper shows that the major issues raised then are as germane today even thoug...

1 Health Inequalities Research Group, Employment Conditions Knowledge Network (GREDS-EMCONET), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, 2 CIBER Epidemiologı́a y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, 3 Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Division of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 4 Department of Po...

in this edge, medical tourism is not a new idea. medical treatment is one of the essential demands of human beings and it requires high quality and intensive care. beside western world, few developing countries are playing key roles as medical tourism destinations. india is one of the leading names among these countries. the purpose of the paper is to find the factors influencing the attractive...