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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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A state-level analysis of the economic impacts of medical tourism in Malaysia
Jeroen Klijs,Jeroen Klijs,Meghann Ormond,Tomas Mainil,Tomas Mainil,Jack Peerlings,Wim Heijman +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors applied input-output (I-O) analysis, based on state-specific I-O data and disaggregated foreign patient data, in Malaysia.
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Providers' perspectives on inbound medical tourism in Central America and the Caribbean: factors driving and inhibiting sector development and their health equity implications.
Rory Johnston,Valorie A. Crooks,Alejandro Cerón,Ronald Labonté,Jeremy Snyder,Emanuel Orozco Núñez,Walter Flores +6 more
TL;DR: There are shared factors shaping the development of medical tourism in Central America and the Caribbean that help explain why it is being pursued by many hospitals and governments in the region.
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Travellers decision making through preferences learning: A case on Malaysian spa hotels in TripAdvisor
Mehrbakhsh Nilashi,Sarminah Samad,Ali Ahani,Hossein Ahmadi,Eesa Alsolami,Marwan Mahmoud,Hamsa D. Majeed,Ala Abdulsalam Alarood +7 more
TL;DR: This paper investigates the effectiveness of a hybrid method using clustering, Higher-Order Singular Value Decomposition (HOSVD) and Classification and Regression Trees (CART) in analysing tourists’ online reviews in TripAdvisor and demonstrates that the method outperforms the methods which solely rely on prediction machine learning techniques.
Living Care-fully: Labor, Love and Suffering and the Geographies of Intergenerational Care in Northern Ghana
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the geographies of care shaping the everyday experiences of women engaged in intergenerational relationships as they encounter emerging dependencies associated with ageing, and they highlighted the complex geographies that shape everyday life experiences and contribute to an understanding of the particular issues faced by communities where intergenerous relationships are key to lives lived with care.
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Medical, Health and Wellness Tourism Research-A Review of the Literature (1970-2020) and Research Agenda.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the literature published on medical, health and wellness tourism and travel over a 50-year period (1970 to 2020) using CiteSpace software.
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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.