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Glenn I Cohen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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circumvention medical tourism and cutting edge medicine the case of mitochondrial replacement therapy the george p smith lecture
2018Co-Authors: Glenn I CohenAbstract:“Medical Tourism” is the travel of patients from a home Country to a Destination Country for the primary purpose of receiving health care. “Circumvention Tourism” is a sub-type of such travel where the motivation is circumventing a domestic prohibition on accessing a medical service. This Article, adapted from the George P. Smith Lecture given at the University of Indiana's school of law, focuses on such circumvention tourism for cutting-edge medicine. I use the recently reported case of travel to Mexico for Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy as a springboard for examining the legal and ethical issues raised by the practice and to discuss restrictive regulation in place in the United States.
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regulating bodies across borders medical tourism for services legal in the home and Destination Country legal and ethical issues
2015Co-Authors: Glenn I CohenAbstract:‘Medical tourism’ (to use the most common term, though ‘cross-border health care’ or ‘medical travel’ could also be used), is the travel of patients from their home Country to a foreign Country for the primary purpose of receiving health care services. There is no doubt that the existing market is significant, even though there are considerable disputes about its exact size.This chapter concerns legal and ethical issues related only to medical tourism for services that are legal in the patient’s home and Destination Country and will cover issues faced by all three populations of medical tourists engaged in it: patients paying out of pocket, private insurer prompted and government prompted medical tourists. I put to one side medical tourism for services illegal in the home or Destination Country, which I have dealt with elsewhere. First, I will discuss the question of how tourist patients can determine the quality of foreign facilities, the possibility of state interventions and the ability and the provision of patient safety information and the challenges in securing that information are discussed, including comparisons to domestic initiatives. Second, and especially as to medical tourists coming from the US, I discuss the question of whether medical tourists can recover for medical malpractice committed abroad and possible regulatory salves. Third, I turn to private insurer prompted medical tourism, focusing on its existing (and potential) regulation in the US health care system. Finally, I discuss government-prompted medical tourism in the form of the EU rules regarding reimbursement of cross-border health care. Because of the large numbers of topics covered here, my treatment of each will be brief, but I have written on each in-depth in other work.
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patients with passports medical tourism law and ethics
2014Co-Authors: Glenn I CohenAbstract:Preface Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Medical Tourism Industry Part I: Medical Tourism for Services Legal in the Patient's Home Country Chapter 2: Quality and Information Chapter 3: Legal Liability Chapter 4: Medical Tourism Through Private Health Insurance Chapter 5: Medical Tourism Through Public Health Insurance: The EU Model and Beyond Chapter 6: Medical Tourism's Effects on the Destination Country: An Empirical and Ethical Examination. Part II: Medical Tourism for Services Illegal in the Patient's Home Country Chapter 7: Transplant Tourism Chapter 8: Medical Tourism and Ending Life: Travel for Assisted Suicide and Abortion Chapter 9: Medical Tourism and the Creation of Life: A Study of Fertility Tourism Chapter 10: Medical Tourism for Experimental Therapies: An In-Depth Exploration of Stem Cell Therapy Tourism. Index
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how to regulate medical tourism and why it matters for bioethics
Developing World Bioethics, 2012Co-Authors: Glenn I CohenAbstract:A growing literature examines descriptive and normative questions about medical tourism such as: How does it operate? What are its effects? Are home Country patients or their governments failing in moral duties by engaging in or permitting medical tourism? By contrast, much less has been written on the regulatory dimension: What might be done about medical tourism if we were convinced that it posed ethical issues and were motivated to act? I shall argue that this kind of regulatory analysis is essential for bioethical analysis of medical tourism. This article focuses on these regulatory questions more directly, evaluating available methods, restrictions, costs, and benefits of home and Destination Country unilateral regulatory moves. This article also discusses more briefly multilateral treaty and private sector responses.
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medical tourism access to health care and global justice
2011Co-Authors: Glenn I CohenAbstract:Medical tourism - the travel of patients from one (the “home”) Country to another (the “Destination”) Country for medical treatment - represents a growing business. A number of authors have raised the concern that medical tourism reduces access to health care for the Destination Country’s poor and suggested that home Country governments or international bodies have obligations to curb medical tourism or mitigate its negative effects when they occur. This Article is the first to comprehensively examine both the question of whether this negative effect on access to health care occurs for the Destination Country’s poor, and the normative question of the home Country and international bodies’ obligations if it does occur. I draw on the work of leading theorists from the Statist, Cosmopolitan, and Intermediate camps on Global Justice and apply it to medical tourism. I also show how the application of these theories to medical tourism highlights areas in which these theories are underspecified and suggests diverging paths for filling in lacunae. Finally, I discuss the kinds of home Country, Destination Country, and multilateral forms of regulation this analysis would support and reject. This Article is the second in a trilogy of law review articles I have done on various aspects of Medical Tourism. The first Article, Protecting Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism and the Patient Protective-Argument, 95 Iowa L. Rev. 1467 (2010) is available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1523701. The third Article, Circumvention Tourism, 97 Cornell L. Rev. _ (2012) is forthcoming and will be posted on SSRN in the near future.
Margarete Redlin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a crook is a crook but is he still a crook abroad on the effect of immigration on Destination Country corruption
Social Science Research Network, 2014Co-Authors: Eugen Dimant, Tim Krieger, Margarete RedlinAbstract:This paper analyzes the impact of migration on Destination-Country corruption levels. Capitalizing on a comprehensive dataset consisting of annual immigration stocks of OECD countries from 207 countries of origin for the period 1984-2008, we explore different channels through which corruption might migrate. We employ different estimation methods using Fixed Effects (FE) and Tobit regressions in order to validate our findings. Moreover, we also address the issue of endogeneity by using the Difference-Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimator. Independent of the econometric methodology, we consistently find that while general migration has an insignificant effect on the Destination Country’s corruption level, immigration from corruption-ridden origin countries boosts corruption in the Destination Country. Our findings provide a more profound understanding of the socio-economic implications associated with migration flows.
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a crook is a crook but is he still a crook abroad on the effect of immigration on Destination Country corruption
Research Papers in Economics, 2013Co-Authors: Eugen Dimant, Tim Krieger, Margarete RedlinAbstract:This paper analyzes the impact of migration on Destination-Country corruption levels. Capitalizing on a comprehensive dataset consisting of annual immigration stocks of OECD countries from 207 countries of origin for the period 1984 - 2008, we explore different channels through which corruption might migrate. Independent of the econometric methodology applied, we consistently find that while general migration has an insignificant effect on the Destination Country's corruption level, immigration from corruption-ridden origin countries boosts corruption in the Destination Country. Our findings provide a more profound understanding of the economic implications associated with migration flows.
Dean Yang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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distortions in the international migrant labor market evidence from filipino migration and wage responses to Destination Country economic shocks
2012Co-Authors: David Mckenzie, Caroline Theoharides, Dean YangAbstract:We use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of migrant numbers and wages to GDP shocks in Destination countries. We find a large significant elasticity of migrant numbers to GDP shocks at Destination, but no significant wage response. This is consistent with binding minimum wages for migrant labor. This result implies that labor market imperfections that make international migration attractive also make migrant flows more sensitive to global business cycles. Difference-in-differences analysis of a minimum wage change for maids confirms that minimum wages bind and demand is price sensitive without these distortions.
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distortions in the international migrant labor market evidence from filipino migration and wage responses to Destination Country economic shocks
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012Co-Authors: David J Mckenzie, Caroline Theoharides, Dean YangAbstract:The authors use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of migrant numbers and wages to gross domestic product shocks in Destination countries. They find a large significant elasticity of migrant numbers to gross domestic product shocks at Destination, but no significant wage response. This is consistent with binding minimum wages for migrant labor. This result implies that labor market imperfections that make international migration attractive also make migrant flows more sensitive to global business cycles. Difference-in-differences analysis of a minimum wage change for maids confirms that minimum wages bind and demand is price sensitive without these distortions.
Eugen Dimant - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a crook is a crook but is he still a crook abroad on the effect of immigration on Destination Country corruption
Social Science Research Network, 2014Co-Authors: Eugen Dimant, Tim Krieger, Margarete RedlinAbstract:This paper analyzes the impact of migration on Destination-Country corruption levels. Capitalizing on a comprehensive dataset consisting of annual immigration stocks of OECD countries from 207 countries of origin for the period 1984-2008, we explore different channels through which corruption might migrate. We employ different estimation methods using Fixed Effects (FE) and Tobit regressions in order to validate our findings. Moreover, we also address the issue of endogeneity by using the Difference-Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimator. Independent of the econometric methodology, we consistently find that while general migration has an insignificant effect on the Destination Country’s corruption level, immigration from corruption-ridden origin countries boosts corruption in the Destination Country. Our findings provide a more profound understanding of the socio-economic implications associated with migration flows.
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a crook is a crook but is he still a crook abroad on the effect of immigration on Destination Country corruption
Research Papers in Economics, 2013Co-Authors: Eugen Dimant, Tim Krieger, Margarete RedlinAbstract:This paper analyzes the impact of migration on Destination-Country corruption levels. Capitalizing on a comprehensive dataset consisting of annual immigration stocks of OECD countries from 207 countries of origin for the period 1984 - 2008, we explore different channels through which corruption might migrate. Independent of the econometric methodology applied, we consistently find that while general migration has an insignificant effect on the Destination Country's corruption level, immigration from corruption-ridden origin countries boosts corruption in the Destination Country. Our findings provide a more profound understanding of the economic implications associated with migration flows.
Sue Booth - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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migration stress and the challenges of accessing food an exploratory study of the experience of recent afghan women refugees in adelaide australia
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020Co-Authors: Foorough Kavian, Kaye Mehta, Eileen Willis, Lillian Mwanri, Paul Ward, Sue BoothAbstract:This study explored the migration and food experiences of Afghani women refugees residing in Adelaide, South Australia for 2 years or less. In-depth semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 10 women between May and September 2017. The data were thematically analysed, and the Social Determinants of Health Framework was used to discuss the findings. Five key themes emerged from the data. In the transition Country (Iran/Pakistan), respondents experienced (i) trauma, discrimination and exclusion and (ii) familiar food culture, but food stress. In the Destination Country (Adelaide, Australia) respondents experienced (iii) a sense of precariousness, (iv) unfamiliar food culture and (v) challenges in accessing halal food. Afghani refugees experienced considerable stressors both in the transition and the final Destination Country but for different reasons. In the transition Country, stresses related to the lack of social services and support, discrimination, racism and poverty seemed to have affected their ability to afford food. In Australia stressors pertaining to socioeconomic, housing and employment precariousness, as well as difficulties in accessing halal foods were identified as challenges. Furthermore, food stress in Australia was associated with the cultural appropriateness of food, the complexity of the food system, and the women’s lack of skills and experiences in navigating the food system. With increasing refugee and immigration flows globally, it is necessary to acknowledge how food and social determinants intersect for refugee immigrants to ensure positive health outcomes.