Understanding medical tourism within the field of neo-institutionalism: an ethical insight
by Rossella Canestrino; Pierpaolo Magliocca; Claudio Nigro
International Journal of Environment and Health (IJENVH), Vol. 8, No. 1, 2016

Abstract: Medical Tourism (MT) has increased in recent years, since a large number of patients from worldwide have travelled to other countries to receive medical cares. This tendency poses deep ethical dilemmas with reference to both the respect of human rights and the unequal distribution of healthcare resources between the rich and the poor. According to the above-mentioned considerations, our paper aims at exploring the ethical concerns of MT and of its social sustainability, as well. In doing this, the neo-institutionalist perspective has been adopted to understand the phenomenon. The proposed paper is theoretical one: it reviews relevant health and medical tourism literature, crossing it with the main contributions belonging to the neo-institutionalism. The adoption of a neo-institutional perspective provides scholars for a new framework that has never been used before, to investigate MT.

Online publication date: Tue, 12-Jul-2016

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