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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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Τουρισμός υγείας και ταξίδι υγείας
TL;DR: A review of the literature on the use of the term medical tourism and related concepts reviels is presented in this article, which reveals that the concept of medical tourism is widely used by both actors in the tourism industry, and in health system.
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Gulliver in the Land of Giants? The Opportunities of the Hungarian Initiations in the Surgical Medical Touristic Market
TL;DR: The aim of the paper is to map the Hungarian surgical medical touristic market in the framework of an exploratory research based on a content analysis and experts’ interviews in order to give recommendations for the development.
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Traveling for Treatment: Taxonomy, Patient Flows and Candidate Drivers
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a set of characteristics that differentiate medical tourism and medical travel from other health services, based on cultural proximity and networks from health care market imperfections and from the literature on international trade, medical tourism, and marketing.
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Health Export and Health Tourism Roles in European Union Countries
TL;DR: This chapter aims to study health tourism in European Union, aiming to create a single market with member countries and with free movement of people among member countries.
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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.