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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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Health tourism: behavioural intention and protection motivation theory
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the effectiveness of the protection motivation theory with the influence of threat appraisal and coping appraisal to trigger tourists' behavioural intention to engage in international health tourism, and the empirical results demonstrate that tourists' high risk perception must be complemented by coping ability to produce a motivational response.
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Sociality and transnational social space in the making of medical tourism: local actors and Indonesian patients in Malaysia
TL;DR: In this paper, international medical travel between Indonesia and Malaysia through the conceptual lens of sociality, transnational social space and therapeutic mobilities is investigated, drawing upon narratives of social mobility.
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A Cautionary Tale: The ‘New’ Medical Tourism Industry in Argentina
TL;DR: This new initiative – called Medicina Argentina (Argentina Healthcare) – hopes to raise the number of foreign patients from 6000 per year to 100,000, and to improve the quality of the medical services avail...
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Determinants of Medical Tourists’ Revisit and Recommend Intention
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the factors affecting medical tourists' revisit and recommend intention such as perceived authenticity, destination image, perceived value, and satisfaction, to recommend intention for medical tourists.
Potential of Health Tourism Development in Nepal: Literature Review and Future View
TL;DR: In this article, the potential of health tourism development in Nepal has been studied and a comprehensive theoretical framework for future research has been proposed, which is based on Ayurveda, meditation, and natural healing tourism.
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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.