Jeremy Snyder
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3596775 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jeremy Snyder |
| NOMBRES | Jeremy |
| APELLIDO | Snyder |
| FIRMA | SNYDER J |
| AFILIACIONES | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8236-2923 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 97 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
“ … I sort of laid it all out … ”
“People I Don’t Even Know Can See This” – Privacy Approaches by Canadians Crowdfunding for Basic Living Needs
Background The practice of crowdfunding raises many concerns, including the extent to which crowdfunding challenges the privacy of crowdfunding campaigners and beneficiaries. Crowdfunding platforms regularly remind campaigners that an emotionally compelling campaign description that highlights their reasons for creating a campaign is likely to increase their chances of success. As a result, campaigners experience significant pressure to disclose …
The Political Is Profitable
Little research has been conducted on litigation crowdfunding, including how links to politically controversial causes may influence fundraising success. This study collected 500 crowdfunding campaigns for legal expenses initiated between December 27, 2022, and June 1, 2023, and 50 litigation campaigns with the highest fundraising totals on the GiveSendGo crowdfunding platform. These campaigns were categorized into politically controversial and n…
The Role of Crowdfunding in Political Mobilization and Extremism in Canada
In 2022, an anti-vaccine mandate protest in Canada received millions of dollars in support through online crowdfunding. This event catalyzed political crowdfunding in Canada by demonstrating its ability to disseminate ideological discourse and mobilize collective action. Given its newfound visibility and impact, this study examines the landscape of political crowdfunding in Canada. We examined 60 campaigns from the legal, current events and polit…
Abortion‐related crowdfunding post‐Dobbs
Previous research on abortion-related crowdfunding campaigns found that they are impacted by stigma around abortion and rarely successful. This paper analyzes crowdfunding activity in the US following a leak of the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs. V. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a time period that saw increased financial support of abortion access funds. Crowdfunding campaigns that included "abort" or "abortion" and were created between M…
Exploitation without Fairness
Analyzing natural herd immunity media discourse in the United Kingdom and the United States
Natural herd immunity, where community-acquired infections in low-risk populations are used to protect high risk populations from infection–has seen high profile support in some quarters, including through the Great Barrington Declaration. However, this approach has been widely criticized as ineffective and misinformed. In this study, we examine media discourse around natural herd immunity in the United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) to bett…
Qualitatively exploring the intersection of health and housing needs in Canadian crowdfunding campaigns
This analysis demonstrates that health and housing needs intersect within the crowdfunding space. The findings reinforce the need to consider health and housing needs together as opposed to using a siloed approach to addressing these pressing social issues, while the classification scheme assist with articulating the breadth of what such co-consideration must include
Relational, community‐based and practical
Every year tens of thousands of older Canadians travel to the southern United States (US) to live there seasonally during the winter months to enjoy a warmer climate-a practice known as international retirement migration. Several factors facilitate participation in this transnational mobility, including having the financial resources needed to live abroad. For those managing chronic or acute health conditions, traveling with a caregiver (typicall…
Implications of Inequities in Health-Related Crowdfunding for the Business of Crowdfunding
Altering consumer practices, facing uncertainties, and seeking stability
International retirement migration involves the seasonal relocation of older adults to destinations abroad. For Canadians, this is typically done to escape winter at home in favour of warmer weather elsewhere. In this paper, we explore how Canadian newspapers chronicled the changes associated with managing the COVID‐19 pandemic in Canada, including border measures and calls to avoid non‐essential travel, and how they impacted international retire…
Is there room for privacy in medical crowdfunding
When people use online platforms to solicit funds from others for health-related needs, they are engaging in medical crowdfunding. This form of crowdfunding is growing in popularity, and its visibility is increasing as campaigns are commonly shared via social networking. A number of ethical issues have been raised about medical crowdfunding, one of which is that it introduces a number of privacy concerns. While campaigners are encouraged to share…
Selling cannabidiol products in Canada
The findings suggest CBD is represented as a medical option for numerous conditions and ailments. We recommend Health Canada to conduct a systematic audit of companies selling CBD for regulatory adherence
Crowdfunding Campaigns and Covid-19 Misinformation
Objectives. To understand whether and how crowdfunding campaigns are a source of COVID-19–related misinformation. Methods. We searched the GoFundMe crowdfunding platform using 172 terms associated with medical misinformation about COVID-19 prophylaxes and treatments. We screened resulting campaigns for those making statements about the ability of these searched-for or related terms to prevent or treat COVID-19. Results. There were 208 campaigns w…
What was lost, missing, sought and hoped for
Lyme disease remains a contested illness in Canada, thereby making the diagnostic and treatment journeys difficult for some people. One outcome of this is that increasing numbers of people are turning to medical crowdfunding to support access to alternative therapies, non-local health care providers and assist with managing the costs of everyday life. In this analysis, we qualitatively explore the narratives shared in Canadians' crowdfunding camp…
Crowdfunding Cannabidiol (CBD) for Cancer
Objectives. To use crowdfunding campaigns to better understand how cannabidiol (CBD) is represented (and misrepresented) as cancer-related care. Methods. We analyzed CBD-related crowdfunding campaigns (n = 155) created between January 2017 and May 2019 in multiple countries on GoFundme.com . Results. More than 81.9% of campaigns fundraised CBD for curative or life-prolonging reasons, and 25.2% fundraised for pain management. Conclusions. Most cam…
Medical Crowdfunding for Unproven Medical Treatments
Medical crowdfunding has raised many ethical concerns, among them that it may undermine privacy, widen health inequities, and commodify health care. One motivation for medical crowdfunding has received particular attention among ethicists. Recent studies have shown that many individuals are using crowdfunding to finance access to scientifically unsupported medical treatments. Recently, GoFundMe prohibited campaigns for antivaccination groups on t…
What Is Known about the Factors Motivating Short-Term International Retirement Migration? A Scoping Review
We don’t want him worrying about how he will pay to save his life”
Exploring Informal Caregivers’ Roles in Medical Tourism through Qualitative Data Triangulation
When Canadian medical tourists go abroad, they are often accompanied by friends and family, referred to as caregiver-companions, who provide informal care. These individuals play a role in patient decision-making and are stakeholders in medical tourism, yet little is known about their participation in this consumer health practice. To examine the roles that Canadian caregiver-companions play while accompanying medical tourists abroad, and to iden…
A critical examination of empowerment discourse in medical tourism
BACKGROUND: Medical tourism is a term used to describe the phenomenon of individuals intentionally traveling across national borders to privately purchase medical care. The medical tourism industry has been portrayed in the media as an "escape valve" providing alternative care options as a result of vast economic asymmetries between the global north and global south and the flexible regulatory environment in which care is provided to medical tour…
Government roles in regulating medical tourism
The intersection of domestic and international regulation of medical tourism has been largely unexplored. This case study advances new research in this area. It highlights the need for and dearth of regulatory protections in Guatemala and lessons for other, similarly situated countries. National regulatory models from Israel and Barbados could be adapted to the Guatemalan context. Global governance could help to protect national governments from …
Availability without access? Globalization and socio-political cleavages in emerging economies
Scholars argue that globalization is reconfiguring socio-political cleavages. No longer do class divisions dominate. Rather, the argument goes, societies are increasingly divided between ‘cosmopolitans’ (who welcome globalization) and ‘communitarians’ (who do not). While that may be the case, studies generally consider the impact of globalization on cleavages in advanced, rather than emerging, economies. Here, we address the latter context. By ex…
“Ensure that you are well aware of the risks you are taking…”
Given that a key feature of public health is to use research findings to develop interventions and policies intended to promote health and reduce risks to individuals and populations, the paper draws upon major points of advice offered by study participants to take the first steps toward the development of an informational intervention designed specifically for the health and safety needs of medical tourists' caregiver companions. While additiona…
Pills in paradise
Promoting medical tourism to India
Fund my treatment
Narratives of emotion and anxiety in medical tourism
This paper explores the emotional geographies of State of the Heart and Larry's Kidney—two nonfiction narratives about medical tourism wherein American patients and their caregiver companions travel abroad for life-saving surgeries. The paper has two main goals: first, to illustrate the importance of emotional geographies in medical tourists' lived experiences of travel and tourism, as well as the giving and receiving of transnational health care…
Ethics of care in medical tourism
Exploitation and demeaning choices
Scholarship aiming to describe the wrongness of exploitation, especially when it is voluntary and mutually beneficial, has increased greatly in recent years. In this paper, I expand the scope of this discussion by highlighting a set of additional ethical concerns associated with many cases of mutually voluntary and beneficial exploitation. Specifically, I argue that the phenomenon of persons desperately seeking out and gratefully accepting exploi…
Motivation, justification, normalization
Pills in paradise
An equity tool for health impact assessments
Stay cool, sell stuff cheap, and smile
Abortion‐related crowdfunding post‐Dobbs
Previous research on abortion-related crowdfunding campaigns found that they are impacted by stigma around abortion and rarely successful. This paper analyzes crowdfunding activity in the US following a leak of the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs. V. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a time period that saw increased financial support of abortion access funds. Crowdfunding campaigns that included "abort" or "abortion" and were created between M…
Exploitation without Fairness
Altering consumer practices, facing uncertainties, and seeking stability
International retirement migration involves the seasonal relocation of older adults to destinations abroad. For Canadians, this is typically done to escape winter at home in favour of warmer weather elsewhere. In this paper, we explore how Canadian newspapers chronicled the changes associated with managing the COVID‐19 pandemic in Canada, including border measures and calls to avoid non‐essential travel, and how they impacted international retire…
Availability without access? Globalization and socio-political cleavages in emerging economies
Scholars argue that globalization is reconfiguring socio-political cleavages. No longer do class divisions dominate. Rather, the argument goes, societies are increasingly divided between ‘cosmopolitans’ (who welcome globalization) and ‘communitarians’ (who do not). While that may be the case, studies generally consider the impact of globalization on cleavages in advanced, rather than emerging, economies. Here, we address the latter context. By ex…
Narratives of a “Dental Oasis”
The dental tourism industry situated along the northern Mexican border provides care primarily to American and Canadian tourists crossing the border to access dental treatments that cost less than domestically provided. This movement of patients across the Mexico–United States (US) border supports the practices of numerous dental clinics in northern Mexican border towns. The largest concentration of dentists per square kilometer in this region is…
A qualitative exploration of how Canadian informal caregivers in medical tourism use experiential resources to cope with providing transnational care
Canadians travelling abroad for privately arranged surgeries paid for out-of-pocket are engaging in what has come to be known as medical tourism. They are often accompanied by friends or family members, who we call caregiver-companions. Caregiver-companions provide care in and across a variety of formal and informal settings, such as in hotels, airplanes and at home. This qualitative study examines the experiences of informal caregivers in medica…
The Environment and Planning of Alaska
This paper describes a planning effort that is unique in United States history. Notwithstanding US Constitutional constraints, a joint Federal-State effort attempted to plan for the State of Alaska's 375 million acres of land, following statehood in 1959. The study focuses on the seven-year life of the Federal-State Land Use Planning Commission (FSLUPC) and the competing interests of resource development, environmental preservation, and subsisten…
Caring Comportment and the Hospitalist Model
The hospitalist model of inpatient care is associated with cost-effective and high-quality care, but this result may come at the cost of patients’ own expressed values. Certain procedural changes can reemphasize patient values, but they must be accompanied by shifts in the comportment of hospitalists, whose current practices have the potential to undermine the model’s benefits
Kidney for Sale by Owner
What is known about the patient's experience of medical tourism? A scoping review
BACKGROUND: Medical tourism is understood as travel abroad with the intention of obtaining non-emergency medical services. This practice is the subject of increasing interest, but little is known about its scope. METHODS: A comprehensive scoping review of published academic articles, media sources, and grey literature reports was performed to answer the question: what is known about the patient's experience of medical tourism? The review was acco…
Fly-By medical care
BACKGROUND: Medical tourism is a global health practice where patients travel abroad to receive health care. Voluntourism is a practice where physicians travel abroad to deliver health care. Both of these practices often entail travel from high income to low and middle income countries and both have been associated with possible negative impacts. In this paper, we explore the social responsibilities of medical tourists and voluntourists to identi…
An industry perspective on Canadian patients' involvement in Medical Tourism
No effective Canadian public health response to medical tourism can treat medical tourists as a unified group with similar motivations for engaging in medical tourism and choosing similar mechanisms for doing so. This situation may be echoed in other countries with patients seeking care abroad. Therefore, a call for a comprehensive public health response to medical tourism and its effects should be coupled with a clear understanding that medical …
Promoting medical tourism to India
“I didn’t even know what I was looking for”
BACKGROUND: Medical tourism describes the private purchase and arrangement of medical care by patients across international borders. Increasing numbers of medical facilities in countries around the world are marketing their services to a receptive audience of international patients, a phenomenon that has largely been made possible by the growth of the Internet. The growth of the medical tourism industry has raised numerous concerns around patient…
New Ethical Perspectives on Medical Tourism in the Developing World
International travel for private medical services, commonly known as medical tourism, is perceived as a growing international trade practice in terms of patient numbers, expenditures, and geographic scope. A range of medical services are purchased by patients who travel abroad for care, including orthopaedic surgery, experimental treatments not available in the patient's home country, organ transplantation, and reproductive treatments.1 Medical t…
An equity tool for health impact assessments
Narratives of emotion and anxiety in medical tourism
This paper explores the emotional geographies of State of the Heart and Larry's Kidney—two nonfiction narratives about medical tourism wherein American patients and their caregiver companions travel abroad for life-saving surgeries. The paper has two main goals: first, to illustrate the importance of emotional geographies in medical tourists' lived experiences of travel and tourism, as well as the giving and receiving of transnational health care…
“You’re dealing with an emotionally charged individual…”
BACKGROUND: Patients engage in medical tourism when they privately obtain a medical care abroad. Previous research shows that many medical tourists travel abroad with friends and family members who provide support and assistance. Meanwhile, very little is known about this important stakeholder group, referred to here as caregiver-companions. In this article we examine the challenges that can be posed by caregiver-companions and the overall practi…
Understanding the impacts of medical tourism on health human resources in Barbados
Stakeholders interviewed who were connected to medical tourism expansion or the tourism sector took a generally positive view of the likely impacts of medical tourism on health human resources in Barbados. However, stakeholders associated with the public health system and health equity expressed concern that medical tourism may spread inequities in this country. The mechanisms by which observed negative health equity impacts in other countries wi…
Knowledge brokers, companions, and navigators
This is the first study to examine informal caregiving roles in medical tourism. Many of the roles identified are similar to those of conventional informal caregivers while others are specific to the transnational context. We conclude that these roles make informal caregivers an integral part of the larger phenomenon of medical tourism. We further contend that examining the roles taken on by a heretofore-unconsidered medical tourism stakeholder g…
Exploitation and demeaning choices
Scholarship aiming to describe the wrongness of exploitation, especially when it is voluntary and mutually beneficial, has increased greatly in recent years. In this paper, I expand the scope of this discussion by highlighting a set of additional ethical concerns associated with many cases of mutually voluntary and beneficial exploitation. Specifically, I argue that the phenomenon of persons desperately seeking out and gratefully accepting exploi…
Motivation, justification, normalization
Medical tourism's impacts on health worker migration in the Caribbean
Medical tourism is a practice where individuals cross international borders in order to access medical care. This practice can impact the global distribution of health workers by potentially reducing the emigration of health workers from destination countries for medical tourists and affecting the internal distribution of these workers. Little has been said, however, about the impacts of medical tourism on the immigration of health workers to med…
Patients with passports
Medical tourism – the practice of travelling across international borders in order to access medical care – is not a new phenomenon. It has been engaged in for millennia and developed alongside the
Best care on home ground” versus “elitist healthcare”
By engaging with local health workers and users, we begin to unpack how potential health equity impacts of medical tourism in an emerging destination are understood by local stakeholders who are not directing sector development. This further outlines how these groups employ knowledge from their home context to ground and reconcile their hopes and concerns for the impacts posed by medical tourism
Ethics of care in medical tourism
A qualitative exploration of how Canadian informal caregivers in medical tourism use experiential resources to cope with providing transnational care
Canadians travelling abroad for privately arranged surgeries paid for out-of-pocket are engaging in what has come to be known as medical tourism. They are often accompanied by friends or family members, who we call caregiver-companions. Caregiver-companions provide care in and across a variety of formal and informal settings, such as in hotels, airplanes and at home. This qualitative study examines the experiences of informal caregivers in medica…
Crowdfunding for Medical Care
Crowdfunding websites allow users to post a public appeal for funding for a range of activities, including adoption, travel, research, participation in sports, and many others. One common form of crowdfunding is for expenses related to medical care. Medical crowdfunding appeals serve as a means of addressing gaps in medical and employment insurance, both in countries without universal health insurance, like the United States, and countries with u…
“That’s enough patients for everyone!”
BACKGROUND: Medical tourism has attracted considerable interest within the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. Governments in the region tout the economic potential of treating foreign patients while several new private hospitals primarily target international patients. This analysis explores the perspectives of a range of medical tourism sector stakeholders in two LAC countries, Guatemala and Barbados, which are beginning to develop their…
Providers’ perspectives on inbound medical tourism in Central America and the Caribbean
BACKGROUND: Many governments and health care providers worldwide are enthusiastic to develop medical tourism as a service export. Despite the popularity of this policy uptake, there is relatively little known about the specific local factors prospectively motivating and informing development of this sector. OBJECTIVE: To identify common social, economic, and health system factors shaping the development of medical tourism in three Central America…
Attitudes toward Post‐Trial Access to Medical Interventions
There is currently no international consensus around post‐trial obligations toward research participants, community members, and host countries. This literature review investigates arguments and attitudes toward post‐trial access. The literature review found that academic discussions focused on the rights of research participants, but offered few practical recommendations for addressing or improving current practices. Similarly, there are few reg…
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