Global Health

This Research Topic on global access to health care for medical travellers intends to engage a range of stakeholders to establish better evidence for health policy. An interdisciplinary edition will combine work from psychology, public health, economics and international development for the benefit of global health policies and will address the absence of consistent evidence. It intends to cover a broad number of topics that will create a starting point for more robust evidence on medical travel, engaging senior academics and early career researchers in line with Frontiers’ aims, as well as linking to key themes outlined by Prof Joav Merrick regarding global contributions to public health.

Medical travel refers to situations where patients leave their home country and travel to another with the purpose of receiving treatment that has been determined as essential to maintain quality of life by a health professional but may not need to be performed urgently. This goes beyond, but includes, medical tourism, where research has largely focused on travel for non-essential, non-urgent medical services such as cosmetic procedures. More scientific and systematic approaches to defining the field of medical travel specifically would be covered in the edition of this Research Topic, and we would welcome papers covering:

- Travel for care not available at home

- Travel for higher quality care

- Challenges regarding medical tourism (i.e. cosmetic procedures) specifically within the wider context of medical travel

- Medical care received while abroad but unintended

- Urgent medical travel services in crises.

How we work:

• After submission, an acknowledgement with manuscript number is sent to the corresponding author within 7 working days.
• A 21 day window time frame is allotted for peer-review process wherein multiple experts are contacted.
• Author proof is generated within 7 working days after the acceptance decision.

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Stella M
Journal Manager
Immunome Research
Email: immunores@longdom.org