title: The internationalization of health care: the UZ Brussel model for international partnerships.
abstract: Globalization of health care, flat medicine, cross-boarder health care, medical tourism, are all terms describing some, but not all, aspects of a growing trend: patients seeking health care provision abroad, and health care providers travelling abroad for temporary or permanent health care delivery services. This trend is a complex, bilateral and multifaceted phenomenon, which in our opinion, cannot be sustained in a single, comprehensive description. Individual hospitals have the unique opportunity to develop a model for appropriate action. The specific model created by the university hospital UZ Brussel is presented here.
authors.affiliation: UZ Brussel, Belgium.
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Noppen
mesh_terms: D001530:Belgium; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D007730:Kuwait; D057193:Medical Tourism / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D027724:Reproductive Techniques, Assisted