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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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Evaluating the Hospitality Services and Marketing Activities Offered to Medical Tourists in the Egyptian JCI Certified Hospitals
Nahla Helmy,Michael Magdy Zaki +1 more
TL;DR: Evaluating the overall hospitality services and marketing activities in the top-notch medical centers in Egypt, which are the JCI certified hospitals, confirmed that there are many strong points which embodied in the proficient marketing activities done for attracting a larger number of medical tourists in the J CI hospitals.
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Multifunkcionalni razvoj zdravstvenog turizma
TL;DR: Health tourism uses natural healing factors and procedures of physical and rehabilitative medicine to improve the quality of life and enable people to preserve and improve health as well as disease prevention in Croatia.
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Functional Outcomes and Health-Related Quality of Life Before and After Primary Total Knee Replacement for Patients From Diverse Geographic Regions.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether patientreported knee function and health status before and after primary total knee replacement (TKR) at an academic medical center differs among patients from diverse geographic regions.
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The role of the russian language in india’s healthcare sector
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a pilot study of a relatively new sphere of economic activity where commodification of Russian language is acquiring a prominent place in India and examine how Russian provides an added value to these hospitals in terms of the clientele they attract and how well it works for the clients themselves.
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Healthcare Organisations in a Global Marketplace: A Systematic Review of the Literature on Healthcare Marketing
TL;DR: A systematic review to explore the nature of marketing of healthcare organisations in an international context, focusing on marketing strategies in the ever-growing healthcare international 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.