Netcare Breast Care Centre of Excellence : what opportunity in African medical tourism? / Claire Beswick & Frederick Ahwireng-Obeng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beswick, Claire, author.

Ahwireng-Obeng, Fred, author.

Series:

SAGE knowledge. Cases.

SAGE Knowledge. Cases.

SAGE knowledge. Cases

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Netcare Breast Care Centre of Excellence.

Medical tourism--Africa--Case studies.

Medical tourism.

Breast--Cancer--Patients--Care--Africa--Case studies.

Breast.

Welfare economics--Case studies.

Welfare economics.

Breast--Cancer--Patients--Care.

Africa.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

[London] : SAGE, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In August 2006, Dr Richard Friedland, the chief executive officer of Netcare Holdings, which operated the largest private hospital network in South Africa, was looking at the findings of research into the opportunity that medical tourists from Africa presented for the group's Breast Care Centre of Excellence. Traditional thought was that because poverty was so widespread in Africa, the possibility of attracting medical tourists from Africa to South Africa was minimal. Reading the report, Friedland now wondered whether this was indeed the case - and, if not, how the centre could exploit the opportunity such tourism presented.

Notes:

Originally Published in: Beswick, C., & Ahwireng-Obeng, F. (2013). Netcare Breast Care Centre of Excellence: What Opportunity in African Medical Tourism? WBS-2013-17. Johannesburg: The Case Centre, Wits Business School.

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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 28, 2016).

ISBN:

9781473964921

OCLC:

1017728060

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.