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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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Past themes and future trends in medical tourism research: A co-word analysis
TL;DR: In this article, a co-word analysis was applied to themes found in published research listed in the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus database services to analyze the evolution of medical tourism (MT) research from a longitudinal perspective.
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Why do medical tourists travel to where they do? The role of networks in determining medical travel.
TL;DR: Investigating medical travel through focus on networks of patients and providers opens up novel conception of medical tourism, deepening understanding of patterns of travel by combining investigation of industry with patient motivation.
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Factors influencing medical tourism adoption in Malaysia: A DEMATEL-Fuzzy TOPSIS approach
Mehrbakhsh Nilashi,Sarminah Samad,Azizah Abdul Manaf,Hossein Ahmadi,Tarik A. Rashid,Asmaa Munshi,Wafa Almukadi,Othman Ibrahim,Omed Hassan Ahmed +8 more
TL;DR: The results showed that human and technological factors are the most important factors for medical tourism adoption in Malaysia.
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The main paths of medical tourism: From transplantation to beautification
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the main path analysis, a unique quantitative and citation-based approach, to analyze the significant development trajectories, important literature, and recent active research areas in medical tourism.
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Connecting with prospective medical tourists online: A cross-sectional analysis of private hospital websites promoting medical tourism in India, Malaysia and Thailand
Sedigheh Moghavvemi,Meghann Ormond,Ghazali Musa,Che Ruhana Isa,Thinaranjeney Thirumoorthi,Mohd Zulkhairi Mustapha,A Kanagi,P. Kanapathy,Jacob John Chiremel Chandy +8 more
TL;DR: Results show differences between Indian, Malaysian and Thai hospital websites, pointing to the need for hospital managers to improve their hospitals’ online presence and interactivity.
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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.