Journal of eHealth Technology and Application

 Vol.9 No.1

Call for Papers

Special Issue on Medical Tourism and eHealth

Chief Editor of this Issue: Prof. Narong Nimsakul

Journal of eHealth Technology and Application (JETA, ISSN 1881-4581) is a new emerging international journal in the field of eHealth, which is technically supported by the ITU and the APT (Asia Pacific Telecommunity). Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts that are related to medical tourism and eHealth to be published in the next year's issue.

Medical tourism is a combined package of medical health checkup, treatment, and travel, or refers pre-operatively to the practice of healthcare providers traveling internationally to deliver healthcare.

After the September 11th Attacks, over 50 countries have identified medical tourism as a national industry. However, accreditation and other measures of quality vary widely across the globe, and there are risks and ethical issues that make this method of accessing medical care controversial citation needed. Also, some destinations may become hazardous or even dangerous for medical tourists to contemplate.

On the other hand, the health care workers such as doctor and nurse sometimes cross a border, too. These activities make problems in the WTO.

As for the eHealth, the intellectual information can cross a border via telecommunication circuit.

So in this Journal, you are invited to consider three fields as follows;

1. Medical tourism
2. Medical workers and the Free Trade Agreement
3. eHealth activities beyond national border

A: project, activity
B: socio-economical analysis
C: education
D: ICT(information communication technology)
E: international body(WHO, WTO, ITU, UN-ESCAP, etc.)
F: others

This special issue will be published in Vol.9, No.1 of the Journal of eHealth Technology and Application in Feb. 2011. Please submit your manuscript by Nov. 1, 2010.

Please refer to the SUBMISSION section in the web site:

http://www. tsj.gr.jp/submission.html