... convergence as the outcome of an increasingly dense web of interactions across national borders. Globalization processes imply cross-national convergence in consumer demand for health services as individuals look to health systems and behaviors in neighboring countries and as new medical technologies diffuse...

... on health by medical sociologists with welfare state theories. Within medical sociology the study of health systems focuses on the ways in which capitalism may adversely affect individual health and health provision. Several welfare state scholars and medical sociologists are working to remedy this gap...