Scaldis Academy, HZ University of Applied Sciences, Vlissingen, The Netherlands. ; CELLO, Sociology of Health, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Int J Health Policy Manag. 2015 Feb 20;4(4):243-4. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.37. eCollection 2015 Apr.
In this commentary, we establish a relationship between medical sociology and the study of medical tourism and cross-border healthcare by introducing Ronald Andersen's behavioral model of healthcare use, and linking this model to the recent empirical study of Kovacs et al. on patients travelling to Hungary for orthopedic treatment. Finally, we plead for more measurement in the field of patient mobility.
在这篇评论中,我们通过引入罗纳德·安德森(Ronald Andersen)的医疗保健使用行为模型,在医学社会学和医疗旅游与跨境医疗保健的研究之间建立了一种关系,并将该模型与科瓦奇等人最近对前往匈牙利接受骨科治疗的患者的实证研究联系起来。最后,我们呼吁在患者流动领域进行更多的测量。