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      Developing an informational tool for ethical engagement in medical tourism

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          Abstract

          Background

          Medical tourism, the practice of persons intentionally travelling across international boundaries to access medical care, has drawn increasing attention from researchers, particularly in relation to potential ethical concerns of this practice. Researchers have expressed concern for potential negative impacts to individual safety, public health within both countries of origin for medical tourists and destination countries, and global health equity. However, these ethical concerns are not discussed within the sources of information commonly provided to medical tourists, and as such, medical tourists may not be aware of these concerns when engaging in medical tourism. This paper describes the methodology utilized to develop an information sheet intended to be disseminated to Canadian medical tourists to encourage contemplation and further public discussion of the ethical concerns in medical tourism.

          Methods

          The methodology for developing the information sheet drew on an iterative process to consider stakeholder feedback on the content and use of the information sheet as it might inform prospective medical tourists’ decision making. This methodology includes a literature review as well as formative research with Canadian public health professionals and former medical tourists.

          Results

          The final information sheet underwent numerous revisions throughout the formative research process according to feedback from medical tourism stakeholders. These revisions focused primarily on making the information sheet concise with points that encourage individuals considering travelling for medical tourism to do further research regarding their safety both within the destination country, while travelling, and once returning to Canada, and the potential impacts of their trip on third parties. This methodology may be replicated for the development of information sheets intending to communicate ethical concerns of other practices to providers or consumers of a certain service.

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                Author and article information

                Contributors
                kaa4@sfu.ca
                jcs12@sfu.ca
                crooks@sfu.ca
                rrj1@sfu.ca
                Journal
                Philos Ethics Humanit Med
                Philos Ethics Humanit Med
                Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine : PEHM
                BioMed Central (London )
                1747-5341
                25 August 2017
                25 August 2017
                2017
                : 12
                : 4
                Affiliations
                [1 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1936 7494, GRID grid.61971.38, , Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, ; Blusson Hall, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC Canada
                [2 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1936 7494, GRID grid.61971.38, Department of Geography, , Simon Fraser University, Robert C. Brown Building, ; 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC Canada
                Article
                45
                10.1186/s13010-017-0045-9
                5574152
                28841897
                e18c1104-37c8-4c5e-9bc4-c1f987c6d546
                © The Author(s). 2017

                Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.

                History
                : 25 September 2015
                : 15 August 2017
                Funding
                Funded by: FundRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000024, Canadian Institutes of Health Research;
                Award ID: 114797
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: FundRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000245, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research;
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                Philosophy of science
                medical tourism,international medical travel,guideline,ethics,equity
                Philosophy of science
                medical tourism, international medical travel, guideline, ethics, equity

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