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204 ● Notes99. Chanda, “Trade in Health Services,” (WHO), p. 43.100. “WHO Adopts Recommendations Designed to End Transplant Tourism,”Transplant News 14, no. 11 (2004): p. 1.101. David Woodward and others, “Globalization, Global Public Goods andHealth,” in WHO, Trade in Health Services, pp. 5– 6.102. Robert A. Poirier, “Tourism in the African Economic Milieu: A Future ofMixed Blessings,” in The Political Economy of Tourism Development in Africa,p. 33.103. David Diaz Benavides and Ellen Perez-Ducy, eds., “Background Note by theOMT/WTO Secretariat,” in Tourism in the Least Developed Countries (Madrid:UNWTO, 2001).104. World Bank Group, The World Bank Grants Facility for Indigenous Peoples,October 2003, accessed January 20, 2005.105. The specialties include plastic surgery, hand surgery, endocrine surgery, as well asorthopedics, ophthalmics, urology, gynecology, gastroenterology, and cardiology.Durant Imboden’s Europe for Visitors, “Medical Tourism at Munich InternationalAirport,” www.europeforvisitors.com/europe/articles/muenchen-airport-centermedical-facilities,accessed September 30, 2005.106. Camara de Comercio de Santiago, “Health Services,” CHILEPORTASERVICIOS,www.chilexportaservicios.cl/ces/default.aspx?tabid=2324, accessed February 19,2007.107. NACLA Report, Health Tourism Booms in Cuba, p. 46.108. Becca Hutchinson, “Medical Tourism Growing Worldwide,” University ofDelaware Daily, July 25, 2005, www.edel.edu/PR/Daily/2005/mar/tourism072505, accessed September 29, 2005.109. New York Times, September 9, 2002.110. Ibid.111. Henderson, “Healthcare Tourism in Southeast Asia,” p. 115.112. Ibid., p. 114.113. “Persian Journal,” Iran News, August 22, 2004.114. Johanson, “Health, Wellness Focus,” p. 24.115. Houyuan, “The Case of China,” p. 196.116. “Persian Journal.”117. Henderson, “Healthcare Tourism in Southeast Asia,” p. 117.Chapter 51. Jorge Augusto Arredondo Vega, “The Case of the Mexico-United States BorderArea,” in UNCTAD-WHO Joint Publication, International Trade in HealthServices: A Development Perspective (Geneva: UN, 1998), p. 161.2. In addition to differences in cost, price differentials are also determined by thelevel of competition and the patients’ perceived value of the services theyreceived (Ivy Teh and Calvin Chu, “Supplementing Growth with MedicalTourism,” Asia Pacific Biotech News Special Report: Medical Tourism 9, no. 8(2005): p. 306).