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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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Exploring visit intention to India for medical tourism using an extended theory of planned behaviour
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the factors influencing the visit intention of medical tourists to India, and extend the theory of planned behaviour through the integration of perceived risk and facilitating condition.
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The relationship between the growth in the health sector and inbound health tourism: the case of Turkey.
TL;DR: This study aimed to test the effect of health and social service sector growth on the flow of inbound health tourism between 2004:Q1 and 2015:Q4 by employing Granger causality and Johansen cointegration approaches and suggested that there is a long-run Granger causability from domestic health andsocial work expenditures to health tourism income.
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International Patients' Travel Decision Making Process- A Conceptual Framework.
TL;DR: This conceptual paper helps in establishing model for decision-making process of international patients in developing visit intention by identifying the source of information, travel benefits and perceived risks related to movement of international Patients and developing a conceptual model based on well-established theory.
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Factors influencing selection of medical tourism destinations: A special niche market
TL;DR: A content analysis of interviews is used to identify the factors affecting the selection of Iran as a medical destination for SRS by individuals and indicates that factors influencing individuals’ decisions on medical tourism destinations come under seven headings.
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Raising concern about the information provided on medical travel agency websites: A place for policy
Áine Maguire,Sarah Bussmann,Celine Meier zu Köcker,Sanne Verra,Lavinia Alexandra Giurgi,Kai Ruggeri +5 more
TL;DR: There is a need for a policy which considers the regulation of MTAs and the information and services that they provide, as well as how the MTA websites promoted their services and communicated the risks, benefits and other issues related to medical travel.
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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.