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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 the choice of medical tourism destination: Spain as a host country
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make an empirical analysis of the social, economic, and behavioral factors that influence the decision to travel for medical tourism reasons, using a Logit model.
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Examining Factors Influencing COVID-19 Vaccine Tourism for International Tourists
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the factors influencing the intention to adopt and recommend COVID-19 vaccine tourism among young travelers in Thailand and found that price value appears to be the most significant influencing factor on intentions of both adopting and recommending vaccine tourism.
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Can inbound medical tourism boost Malaysia’s economic growth?:
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of medical tourism on the tourism industry is investigated and the authors highlight that medical tourism is an extensively researched sub-sector of tourism industry because of its acknowledged role as an important catalyst for economic growth.
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"I didn't have to prove to anybody that I was a good candidate": a case study framing international bariatric tourism by Canadians as circumvention tourism.
TL;DR: These barriers restricting domestic access to bariatric care in Canada may leave Canadian patients with a sense that their health care system is not adequately addressing their specific health care needs.
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Diversified demand for health tourism matters: From a perspective of the intra-industry trade
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors identified the key factors influencing the development of health tourism in China, and the results indicated the foremost factors affecting the health tourism trade were total health expenditure per capita and domestic health consumers.
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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.