SFU Medical Tourism Research Group

Medical tourism is traveling internationally to meet the health care needs for travelers going outside border care arrangement. And usually pay for this care out of pocket. Includes specific interventions required surgery, and plastic surgery, reproductive treatments, organ transplants, and travel to experimental treatments such as stem cell transfer and treatment of CCSVI in MS. Our research team is particularly interested in traveling Canadians elective surgery that does not involve the purchase of human organs.
The practice of medical tourism raises important issues for patient safety, and creates uncertainty about the consequences of their patients and destination countries, and make ethical problems both for people who have not been involved in medical tourism. Our research team is interested in these issues. For example, we want to understand the implications of health and safety issues in the field of medical tourism for patients making medical decisions and to participate in the decision making process. We are also interested in determining the most urgent ethical issues in the practice of health tourism and the local and global consequences.