title: International patients on operation vacation: medical refuge and health system crisis Comment on "International patients on operation vacation - perspectives of patients travelling to Hungary for orthopaedic treatments".
abstract: An understanding of patient mobility, international patients and medical tourism includes supply and demand side considerations. As well as micro-level reports of motivation and satisfaction we must acknowledge broader system-level dynamics. Exploring these may unearth more complex geographies of patient travel.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York, Heslington, York, UK.
authors.forename: Neil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lunt
keywords: Hungary; International Patients; Medical Tourism; Romania