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Government roles in regulating medical tourism: evidence from Guatemala

BACKGROUND: Regulation of the medical tourism and public health sectors overlap in many instances, raising questions of how patient safety, economic growth, and health equity can be protected. The case of Guatemala is used to explore how the regulatory challenges posed by medical tourism should be d...

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Autores principales:	Labonté, Ronald, Crooks, Valorie A., Valdés, Alejandro Cerón, Runnels, Vivien, Snyder, Jeremy
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2018
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148768/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30236120 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-018-0866-1

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