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*(Apologies for cross-posting / **Please help us by distributing this call
to interested colleagues)*
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*Call for papers*
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*‘Transnational health care, regions and development’*
An international workshop sponsored by
the Academy for Tourism at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences and
the Cultural Geography Chair Group at Wageningen University
*20-21 June 2013*
*Held at Wageningen University, The Netherlands*
At a moment in which the provision and regulation of health care within
national boundaries is profoundly shifting, the growing numbers of people
going abroad in pursuit of health care mean that the social, political and
economic significance and impacts of these flows at a range of levels
cannot be ignored. Several recent initiatives – such as the recent European
Union directive on patient mobility, the harnessing of cross-border patient
flows between Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member-states,
and budding joint promotion of the Caribbean region as a medical travel
destination – have specifically demonstrated the relevance of the
transnational region relative to emerging post-national understandings of
supply, demand and responsibility in health care.
While thinking ‘regionally’ beyond borders is well-established in economic
development discourses and practices, studies of health care have long been
restricted to the confines of ‘methodological nationalism’. In recognition
of the array of initiatives around the world that challenge and move beyond
attempts at self-sufficiency in health care at the national level, this
international workshop seeks to draw attention to the breadth of *regional *
capacity-building, relations and identities forged through the
international pursuit and provision of medical care. The workshop
specifically focuses on exploring the link between transnational health
care and regional development, produced through both higher-profile,
long-distance pursuits of medical tourists and more ‘everyday’ cross-border
and intra-regional health-motivated movements.
We encourage the submission of abstracts on topics that include but are not
limited to:
· The role of government at various levels in slowing down or
enhancing patient mobility
· Professional stakeholder relations and approaches in patient
mobility frameworks
· The analysis of transnational health policies (bi-lateral
agreements/regional approaches)
· Potential for transnational regions to benefit from economies
of scale by pooling health resources and patients
· The use of health care in transnational regional identity
constructions and claims
· The role of diaspora in linking sending and receiving contexts
through transnational health care
· Reports on experiences of transnational health care users and
providers
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words electronically by Monday,
10 December 2012 to the workshop organisers, Tomas Mainil
([log in to unmask]<[log in to unmask]>)
and Meghann Ormond ([log in to unmask]). Those authoring successful
submissions will be contacted by Friday, 21 December 2012.
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Dr Meghann Ormond
Assistant Professor, Cultural Geography Chair Group (formerly Socio-Spatial
Analysis), Wageningen University
E-mail: [log in to unmask] Web:
http://www.geo.wur.nl/UK/Staff/Staff_Ormond/
Office telephone: +31 (0)317486199
*Visiting address:*
Room B306, Gaia Building (Building 101), Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB
Wageningen,
The Netherlands
*Mailing address:*
P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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