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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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Medical tourism in Thailand: a cross-sectional study.
TL;DR: The total number of medical tourists visiting Thailand in 2010 is about 10% of previous national government estimates of 1.2 million, and such tourists appear to bring economic benefits to Thailand and to have negligible effects on the health system.
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More than a special interest: defining and determining the demand for health tourism
Melanie Smith,László Puczkó +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on health tourism and some of its sub-sectors, including wellness and spa tourism, and provide an analysis of existing definitions with some proposals for refinement.
Why do patients engage in medical tourism
TL;DR: This paper proposes a sequential decision-making process in opting for or against medical care abroad, and engaging in medical tourism, including considerations of the required treatments, location of treatment, and quality and safety issues attendant to seeking care.
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The effect of cultural distance on medical tourism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the relationship between the origin countries of international patients and their cultural distance from the destination country in the context of medical tourism and found that cultural distance has an impact on the choice of destination for medical tourism.
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Implications for the NHS of inward and outward medical tourism: a policy and economic analysis using literature review and mixed-methods approaches
Neil Lunt,Richard D. Smith,Russell Mannion,Stephen T Green,Mark Exworthy,Johanna Hanefeld,Daniel Horsfall,Laura Machin,Hannah King +8 more
TL;DR: This paper aims to demonstrate the efforts towards in-situ applicability of EMMARM, which aims to provide real-time information about concrete mechanical properties such as E-modulus and compressive strength in the response toicrobial resistance.
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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.