tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học: "Fly-By medical care: Conceptualizing the global and local social responsibilities of medical tourists and physician voluntourists"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Fly-By medical care: Conceptualizing the global and local social responsibilities of medical tourists and physician voluntourists | Snyder et al. Globalization and Health 2011 7 6 http content 7 1 6 H2 globalization 7 AND HEALTH DEBATE Open Access Fly-By medical care Conceptualizing the global and local social responsibilities of medical tourists and physician voluntourists Jeremy Snyder 1 Shafik Dharamsi2 and Valorie A Crooks3 Abstract Background Medical tourism is a global health practice where patients travel abroad to receive health care. Voluntourism is a practice where physicians travel abroad to deliver health care. Both of these practices often entail travel from high income to low and middle income countries and both have been associated with possible negative impacts. In this paper we explore the social responsibilities of medical tourists and voluntourists to identify commonalities and distinctions that can be used to develop a wider understanding of social responsibility in global health care practices. Discussion Social responsibility is a responsibility to promote the welfare of the communities to which one belongs or with which one interacts. Physicians stress their social responsibility to care for the welfare of their patients and their domestic communities. When physicians choose to travel to another county to provide medical care this social responsibility is expanded to this new community. Patients too have a social responsibility to use their community s health resources efficiently and to promote the health of their community. When these patients choose to go abroad to receive medical care this social responsibility applies to the new community as well. While voluntourists and medical tourists both see the scope of their social responsibilities expand by engaging in these global practices the social responsibilities of physician voluntourists are much better defined than those of medical tourists. Guidelines for engaging in ethical voluntourism and training for voluntourists still need better development but medical tourism as a practice .