Abstract: Globalization of the healthcare industry puts nations at risk. Rapidly rising healthcare costs, increasing medical tourism, and the sporadic return of once eradicated diseases are the beginning of new norms of Global Age today. As nations struggle to make their healthcare systems effective, affordable, and sustainable, it is important that they understand the emerging global healthcare system to infer challenges to their local healthcare systems. This chapter briefly addresses the global healthcare industry and its associated risks.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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