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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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Factors Affecting Destination Choice in Medical Tourism
Haşim Çapar,Özgür Aslan +1 more
TL;DR: The factors affecting the selection of medical tourism destinations were determined to be, in order of importance, accessibility of health care service, level of security and safety, potential of savings-low cost, and tourism opportunities.
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(Dis)connectivities in wartime: The therapeutic geographies of Iraqi healthcare–seeking in Lebanon
TL;DR: It is argued for the need to reimagine the disconnectivity and connectivity of healthcare systems under war and conflict as grounded in the empirical realities and experiences of mobility in the Middle East.
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National healthcare rhetoric beyond the nation: The materiality of narrative in cosmetic surgery tourism:
TL;DR: The authors examines the narrative strategies employed by US and UK plastic surgeons associations to discredit the practice of aesthetic tourism, one of a broad set of a "generalization" of a tourism industry.
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Changing Preferences, Moving Places and Third Party Administrators: A Scoping Review of Medical Tourism Trends (1990-2016)
Salman Majeed,Changbao Lu +1 more
TL;DR: The study espouses a rise in medical tourism from the United States, and participating countries in Europe, Asia and Africa with participating countries, identifies a need for profound policymaking, and highlights the importance and applicability of TPC-TPAs link chain inmedical tourism context.
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Medical tourism: Chinese maternity tourism to Hong Kong
TL;DR: The authors examined the determinants of Chinese maternity tourism (birth tourism) to Hong Kong with an Autoregressive Distribution Lag (ARDL) cointegration methodology with bounds testing of Pesaran, Shin, and Smith over the period from 1991 to 2011.
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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.