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Contemporary medical tourism: Conceptualisation, culture and commodification

John Connell
- 01 Feb 2013 - 
- Vol. 34, pp 1-13
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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.
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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.

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Storytelling by medical tourism agents and its effect on trust and behavioral intention

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed that storytelling by medical tourism agents can be classified according to story and story and telling, and that authenticity and educability are the key story attributes, while enjoyability, desc...
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The Theory of Planned Behaviour in Medical Tourism: International Comparison in the Young Consumer Segment

TL;DR: The research showed that the TPB model can be used in medical tourism and the results show that the consumers’ country of origin is a significant factor when predicting their intention to use medical tourism services.
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Early geography of the coronavirus disease outbreak in Nigeria.

TL;DR: The time–space geographies of COVID-19 infection focusing on Africa and Nigeria especially are explored, revealing that South Africa accounts for 40% of the total confirmed cases in Africa, followed by Egypt, Nigeria, Ghana, Ghana and Algeria.
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Predicting medical tourism behavioural intention using social cognition models

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed the adoption of two social cognition models: the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and protection motivation theory (PMT), to predict medical tourism behavioural intention, as well as compare their predictive power by integrating TBP and PMT in a single model.
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Understanding the influence of “feeling at home” on healthcare travelers’ well-being: a comparison of Airbnb and hotel homescapes

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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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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.

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.
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