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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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Attitude towards alternative medicinal practices in wellness tourism market
S. Meera,A. Vinodan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the possibility of developing alternative medicinal practices in the wellness tourism market in the context of Kalari practices and employed an exploratory sequential method consisting of in-depth interviews with practitioners and questionnaire survey with 356 tourists.
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“Medical tourism will…obligate physicians to elevate their level so that they can compete”: a qualitative exploration of the anticipated impacts of inbound medical tourism on health human resources in Guatemala
TL;DR: The results question the responsibility of Guatemala’s medical education system for supporting an enhanced medical tourism sector, particularly with an increasing focus on the demand for private clinics, specific specialities, English-language training, and international standards.
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Incorporating mammography into an overseas referral metric: Tongan doctors’ assessments of patient eligibility for medical travel
TL;DR: The interplay between mammography access and practitioners' processes of cancer diagnosis, patient risk assessment, and overseas referral in Tonga is elucidated, showing how broader emphases on quantification and efficiency in global-health practice can generate intense moral dilemmas for those who must grapple with their implementation in the day-to-day.
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Sustainable medical tourism: Investigating health-care travel in Indonesia and Malaysia
TL;DR: Indonesia has a great opportunity in the field of medical tourism, but Malaysia still ranks more hi-tech hospitals than other countries, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Beauty and Elegance: Value Co-Creation in Cosmetic Surgery Tourism:
TL;DR: This paper explored tourists' perceptions of CST for medical service quality as an antecedent to tourists' emotional states of satisfaction with the service quality of the service and the cost of the surgery.
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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.