Mobility in all of its forms is highly commodified in a globalised system. Much focus on mobility theory has offered a new ‘mobilities turn’. Largely absent from this ‘mobility turn’ is an examination of the relationship between mobility and health. This case study focuses on the Canadian televised and print media attention given to a medically contested procedure: liberation therapy (LT), which emerged as the possible treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS). As a non-insured service, Canadian MS patients wanting access to the procedure must travel to other geographical locations in what is termed as medical tourism. A comprehensive media analysis reveals an overwhelming patient mobility in the hopes of positive outcomes mainly from anecdotal stories. Patients’ advocacy for LT intensified and this pressured governments’ to fund clinical trials. This highlights the influence of the media in mobilizing patients and directing resources for research in the Canadian health care system.

The thesis deals with patient mobility in the European Union. It is particularly focused on legislation development of cross-border healthcare providing. Its purpose is to analyse and critically evaluate different regulations of this issue. Using the comparison of individual legislation whether it is regulation, directive or case law, aims to explain the basic principles that patient undergoing a treatment in another Member State obey. The thesis is composed of five chapters. Chapter one is an introduction to the general context of health policy and modification in primary law. The second chapter assesses the role of patient in the European Union, which is seen here as a community of free market. The chapter has the largest content. This part is dedicated to it with an emphasis on significant impact that this area has brought the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU. The case law pointed to the need to adhere the primary law to address this issue, which prohibits Member States to impose restrictions that could restrict the free movement of patients. Health care has been classified as a service and the patient has been recognized as a consumer sui generis. It specifies and particularly explains the procedures of the Court that intervened in the existing legislation by its liberal stridency....

The topic of this thesis is the Design of an active patient lift. This project brings new ideas into the patient lift design problematice while using plastic molds. Overall plastic cover is the solution for agresive looks of current products. From the technical point of view this project combines current technologies into the new, so far nonexisting, solution. Thesis brings new views on lifts controls and movement while considering ergonomic and technological parameters.