From medical tourism toward a space for transnational care: the case of Libyan patients in Sfax (Tunisia)
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11 mars 2021
- doi: 10.4000/rfst.801
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medical tourism Lybian patients private health services globalization local development transnational spaceSujets proches
Care and treatment Health services Hygiene, Social Social hygiene Public hygiene Sanitary affairs Public health services Hygiene, Public Community health Health care delivery Health services Personal health services Medical services Medical and health care industry Delivery of medical care Health care Healthcare Delivery of health care Health tourismCiter ce document
Betty Rouland et al., « From medical tourism toward a space for transnational care: the case of Libyan patients in Sfax (Tunisia) », Revue francophone sur la santé et les territoires, ID : 10.4000/rfst.801
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This paper focuses on the triptych “health-tourism-territory” analyzing the logics of the development of private health services in the Tunisian city of Sfax and the modes of utilization of care by Libyan patients since the Arab revolutions in 2011. This phenomenon is based on geographical proximity and started during the 1990s, whereby a combination of multidimensional factors promoted the growth of an original sector, making Tunisia a leading destination for medical tourists: ...