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Contemporary medical tourism: Conceptualisation, culture and commodification
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An overview is given of the short history and rapid rise of medical tourism, its documentation, and current knowledge and analysis of the industry.About:
This article is published in Tourism Management.The article was published on 2013-02-01. It has received 465 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tourism geography & Tourism.read more
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UK medical tourists in Thailand: they are not who you think they are
TL;DR: Thailand is attracting a large number of medical tourists including larger numbers of UK patients than previously estimated, however, as many patients travel for comparatively minor procedures treatment may not be their primary motivation for travel.
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Evidence on global medical travel
Kai Ruggeri,Ladislav Záliš,Christopher R. Meurice,Ian Hilton,Terry Lisa Ly,Zorana Zupan,Saba Hinrichs +6 more
TL;DR: The evidence on medical travel needs to be understood in terms of its potential risks and benefits so that it can be evaluated against alternatives by patients who are seeking care, and it is proposed that better evidence could support the development of medical travel policies.
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Knowledge management orientation and operational performance relationship in medical tourism (overview of the model performance in the COVID-19 pandemic and post-pandemic era)
TL;DR: The positive effects of the most essential knowledge management areas such as time, cost, and quality management orientation, on operational performance through the mediating role of innovation speed are presented.
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Fetal citizens? Birthright citizenship, reproductive futurism, and the “panic” over Chinese birth tourism in southern California:
TL;DR: In 2012, residents of Chino Hills, California as mentioned in this paper exposed a maternity hotel in their city and controversy erupted as protesting residents argued that the hotel violated their religious beliefs and violated women's privacy.
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A Market and Spatial Perspective of Health Tourism Destinations: The Hungarian Experience
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce a new approach of spatial and product analysis of tourism where the market and spatial relations and relevance of health tourism were analyzed through the example of Hungary, since the country's leading position in the global market is well recognized, including medical services.
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Medical tourism: Sea, sun, sand and … surgery
TL;DR: The rise of medical tourism emphasises the privatisation of health care, the growing dependence on technology, uneven access to health resources and the accelerated globalisation of both health care and tourism.
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Health and Wellness Tourism
Melanie Smith,László Puczkó +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Petroune et al. present the future of health and wellness tourism in terms of management and management issues in health and well-being tourism, as well as a review of the current state of the art.
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Medical Tourism in Developing Countries
TL;DR: This paper presents a meta-analysis of the literature on medical tourism and its applications in the oil and gas industry and investigates the demand for offshore doctors and the supply of medical tourism.
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Medical tourism: assessing the evidence on treatment abroad.
Neil Lunt,Percivil Carrera +1 more
TL;DR: The review sought to identify the medical tourist literature for out-of-pocket payments, focusing wherever possible on evidence and experience pertaining to patients in mid-life and beyond, and drew attention to gaps in research evidence.
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Globalization and healthcare: understanding health and medical tourism
TL;DR: This paper underscored the issue of a severely limited formal literature that is compounded by conceptual ambiguity facing health and medical tourism scholarship, and provided evidence with regard to the scale of trade in healthcare.