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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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Essentials of Healthcare Marketing
TL;DR: This is a systemic review to identify the essentials of health care marketing to establish its scope and to identify its gaps in various studies literature and to make further recommendations related to this field.
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Internet Narratives Focused on Health Travelers' Experiences in India: Qualitative Analysis.
TL;DR: The results showed that most of the medical tourists were happy with the overall experience of receiving care in India, and the most popular themes with regard to the patients’ satisfaction were low costs, good customer service, and services being offered that were unavailable in their home country.
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Traditional and complementary medicine from health tourism perspective
TL;DR: This conceptual study is aimed to address the Concept of traditional and complementary medicine from the perspective of health tourism in Turkey, which aims to gain more economic gains through its natural beauties, advanced medical infrastructure and recent investments on traditional andplementary medicine.
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A Neglected Dimension of Medical Tourism Destination Impacts: A Synthesis of Observations and Convictions
TL;DR: The paper suggests that the socio-cultural impact of medical tourism on the health care of the poor local people must be viewed seriously and calls for rigid and efficient legislation from the authorities to enable and strengthen the public healthcare system.
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A bibliometric analysis of the 100 top-cited publications in health tourism
TL;DR: This study shows that the trends of health and medical tourism research fields and also the main papers, authors, journals, institutions and countries within the most cited top 100 articles in this area are shown.
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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.