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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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Role of Facilitators in the Medical Tourism Industry - A Study of Medical Tourism Facilitators in an Emerging Market
TL;DR: In this article , the authors focus on a novel type of intermediaries called medical tourism facilitators that assume a vital function in the medical tourism industry and present a model that includes six supplementary services, namely information dissemination, consultation, booking, providing hospitality, network development, and support industry development.
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Inbound, Outbound, and Domestic: The Current Situation in the Chinese Medical Tourism Market
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Strategic Alliances: A Conceptual Model of Health Tourism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the concept of alliances, which has been used as a strategy in the service industry, with a theoretical perspective and how it can be applied to the tourism industry.
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Discussion: Plastic Surgery Complications from Medical Tourism Treated in a U.S. Academic Medical Center.
Jacob S. Nasser,Kevin C. Chung +1 more
TL;DR: The anecdotal evidence presented in this article demonstrates that plastic surgery performed in a developing country poses complications for the patient and imposes additional cost onto the United States health system.
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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.