title: Globalization of medical services: antidote for rising costs.
abstract: The costs of medical services continue to rise despite a number of measures used to contain them. These costs, if not stemmed, will begin to compromise other priorities. Serious problems call for a bold step; and this bold step is to locate medical care facilities in low-cost overseas sites that are rich in high-quality health human resources and have stable and sound governments. Issues pertaining to quality, acceptability, and other factors are surmountable problems.
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: Sager C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Jain
mesh_terms: D003906:Developing Countries; D014943:Global Health; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D011787:Quality of Health Care