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Fly-By medical care: Conceptualizing the global and local social responsibilities of medical tourists and physician voluntourists

BACKGROUND: Medical tourism is a global health practice where patients travel abroad to receive health care. Voluntourism is a practice where physicians travel abroad to deliver health care. Both of these practices often entail travel from high income to low and middle income countries and both have...

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Autores principales: Snyder, Jeremy, Dharamsi, Shafik, Crooks, Valorie A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3083338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21470415
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-7-6