OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of current depression; examine the relationship between current depression and immigration, health status, health care access, and health behaviors; and assess differences by California-Mexico border region (Imperial and San Diego Counties) among women in California. METHODS Using a cross-sectional, representative sample of adult women from the California ...

Patients are crossing national borders in search of affordable and timely health care. Many medical tourism companies are now involved in organizing cross-border health services. Despite the rapid expansion of the medical tourism industry, few standards exist to ensure that these businesses organize high-quality, competent international health care. Addressing the regulatory vacuum, 10 standard...

13.00-14.30 Introduction to the meeting Global haemophilia care: what can be learned from emerging countries? Chairs: J. Astermark (SE), P. de Moerloose (CH) Low-dose replacement and prophylaxis in emerging countries A. Srivastava (IN) Cross-border care: heterogeneity of haemophilia care between countries and its consequences on patients’ management C. Hermans (CH) How can wealthy countries hel...

The article overviews cross-border cooperation across Polish borders in the last three decades. Deeply rooted conflictive border legacies and shifts first half of twentieth century, they quickly became locations symbolic reconciliation with neighbours functional aiming at economic development. non-linear character these processes resulted from changing political environment region.

This paper explores the impact of cross-border M&As on host economies of Korea ; China; and Hong Kong, China. For an intensive analytical research on this topic, this paper presents a comprehensive framework for analyzing the various impacts of cross-border M&As on the competitiveness of the host economies. We apply this framework to the data from five outstanding and considerable cases of each...