Valorie A. Crooks

TL;DR: The need for additional research on numerous issues is demonstrated, including: understanding how multiple information sources are consulted and evaluated by patients before deciding upon medical tourism; examining how patients understand the risks of care abroad; and the push and pull factors, as well as the motives of patients to participate in medical tourism.

TL;DR: It is observed that what is currently known about the effects of medical tourism is minimal, unreliable, geographically restricted and mostly based on speculation.

TL;DR: The main purpose of this article is to identify and understand the messages and images that companies use to market India as a global destination and to consider the implications of the findings for existing knowledge gaps and debates within health geography specifically.

TL;DR: A modified version of the gravity model is developed and used to calculate potential spatial access to PHC physicians in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, contributing more broadly to assessing the success of policy mandates to enhance the equitability of PHC provisioning in Canadian provinces.

TL;DR: This study highlighted the disproportionate burden of pedestrian injury centred on the downtown eastside area of Vancouver, and revealed that important passive pedestrian safety countermeasures were only present at a minority of high-incident locations.