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Contemporary medical tourism: Conceptualisation, culture and commodification

John Connell
- 01 Feb 2013 - 
- Vol. 34, pp 1-13
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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.
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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.

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Impact of Home Country Terrorism on Medical Tourism in India January 2020

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between home country terrorism and medical tourism as many such countries are faced with failing health care systems because of the increased threat and incidences of terrorism and found that there is a direct and significant effect of terrorism in a country on the number of medical tourists from that country.
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An Early Pioneer of Medical Tourism's Use of the Internet and Social Media

TL;DR: This chapter tries to map the earliest evolution of the use of the web for the delivery of medicine and medical advice using a SWOT analysis and following this pioneer from the mid 1990’s.
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The Factor Structure of Medical Tourist Satisfaction: Exploring Key Drivers of Choice, Delight, and Frustration:

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data from a survey-based study conducted on a sample of 1,209 med tourists to contribute to a better understanding of the medical tourism experience.
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Antecedents of perceived beneficial destination image: a study on Middle-Eastern medical tourists visit Iran

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between travel motivation, perceived risks, travel constraints and perceived beneficial destination image that leads to visit intention among Middle-Eastern medical tourists in Iran.
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The Contribution of Medical Tourism to the Economic and Regional Development in Greece

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the contribution of medical tourism in the economic and tourism development in Greece and found that the vast majority of members of 5-star hotels supports that medical tourism could contribute positively to the economic development of the region and to the development of tourism in Greece.
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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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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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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.
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