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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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A bilingual systematic review of South Korean medical tourism: a need to rethink policy and priorities for public health?
TL;DR: In this article, a systematic literature review was conducted per PRISMA guidelines for all South Korean medical tourism legislative and policy literature using MeSH terms and other related keywords in two academic databases, PubMed and JSTOR.
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Mobilising patients towards transnational healthcare markets – insights into the mobilising work of medical travel facilitators in Delhi
TL;DR: In this article, the authors categorised three mobilisation strategies: direct patient mobilisation, channel partner mobilisation and patient testimonial mobilisation to build trust over distance, the power of word-of-mouth and the importance of nurturing personal relationships that translate into transnational channels that direct people to particular destinations.
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A framework for medical tourists' satisfaction and loyalty by costumer segmentation and quality improvement
Mahdi Nakhaeinejad,Mohammad Hosein Moeinzadeh,Seyed Aliasghar Tabatabaei Bafrouei,Afarin Akhavan +3 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a framework for medical tourists' satisfaction and loyalty based on the Zeithaml pyramid and identified and provided strategies to create loyalty and attract customers of this industry.
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The Development, Nature, and Impact of Medical Tourism in Bangladesh
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the existing patterns of medical tourism in Bangladesh, while offering suggestions that would allow the country to gain a competitive edge in terms of services and facilities.
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Language, medical tourism and the enterprising self
TL;DR: In this paper, the implications of health mobility on language practices in the medical tourism industry in India and on the ways, language workers become entrepreneurs are discussed. But the authors focus on the trajectories of three former students of Russian and highlight their future aspirations as language learners and entrepreneurs and show, how they attempt to capitalize on language skills and respond to changing conditions and patient movements within the structures, constraints and uncertainties of the linguistic market.
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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.