Purpose – Hospitals need to determine if an international patient department is a necessity to communicate with and manage international patients. Design/Methodology/Approach – A benchmarking instrument was created to assess the level of professionalism in managing international patients,...

Purpose – Non‐discursive practices such as the economy and political constellations have always caused shifts in history. However, in the network society of today, these shifts have become omnipresent. Globalization of health and medical tourism have created a shift or rupture in the history...

The treatment outcomes for large-scale public antiretroviral therapy (ART) programs in developing countries, although promising, are still preliminary. The scaling-up of ART in resource-limited settings is inevitably hampered by human resource shortages. Therefore, community support for ART...

Introduction -- How to use this book -- Action research -- Autoethnography -- Case study -- Constructionism -- Content analysis -- Critical realism -- Critical theory -- Deduction -- Delphi method -- Document analysis -- Empiricism -- Epistemology -- Ethical practice -- Ethnomethodology --...

Governments are increasingly establishing health regions to deal with current challenges of public health service. These regions are seen as instruments to balance public and private stakeholders, and offer health care to regional citizens as well as to medical/health tourists. However, it is...