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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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More than medical tourism: lessons from Indonesia and Malaysia on South–South intra-regional medical travel
Meghann Ormond,Dian Sulianti +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that South–South medical travellers' diverse socio-economic conditions shape decision-making and spending behaviour relative to treatment, accommodation and transport choices as well as length of stay.
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Perceived impacts of medical tourism development on community wellbeing
TL;DR: This paper used social exchange theory with spillover theory as the conceptual framework to examine factors of economic performance of medical tourism, overall community satisfaction, health care satisfaction and attitudes toward medical tourism; these factors influence on residents' perceptions of medical tourists' impact on community wellbeing, which in turn affects willingness to pay higher taxes and support for medical tourism development.
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Medical tourism: A snapshot of evidence on treatment abroad.
TL;DR: The narrative review traverses discussion on medical tourism definitions and flows, consumer choice, clinical quality and outcomes, and health systems implications and attention is drawn to gaps in the research evidence.
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Towards a taxonomy of tourism products
TL;DR: In this paper, a taxonomy of tourism products is proposed, which adopts a phenetic method to group products hierarchically, using a modified version of the marketing-oriented product hierarchy system.
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Clustering wellness tourists in spa environment.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report findings from a sample of 165 wellness tourists using the services at Vrnjacka Banja Spa, Serbia, and their motives are classified as rejuvenation, socialization,hedonism, obsession with health and beauty, relaxation, and escape from routine.
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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.