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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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Service Collaboration between Healthcare Service Providers and Tourism Agencies
Elaine Y.T. Chew,Stephanie Onggo +1 more
TL;DR: The findings point towards the main reasons behind the rare collaboration which are the high customer orientation of healthcare service providers, the strategic move of business and support for government agenda.
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Recenzja książki: Izabella Main (2018) Lepsze światy medyczne? Zdrowie, choroba i leczenie polskich migrantek w perspektywie antropologicznej. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe SCHOLAR
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Importance‐performance analysis of private health facilities serving within the scope of Medical Tourism: Istanbul example
TL;DR: The factors whose low priority should be maintained has been defined as waiting period, providing accurate hospital information, quality of service, legal inspections, follow-up treatment and the factors that need to be focused on has beendefined as the transparency of the wage policy.
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Kolkata: A Medical Tourism Destination in Eastern India
TL;DR: The role of Kolkata as a medical tourism destination is significant among price-sensitive patients from lower and middle-income countries including Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Nepal, Myanmar, Bhutan, Pakistan and Nigeria as mentioned in this paper.
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Patient expectations and satisfaction in health tourism example of a private hospital group
Mesut Çimen,Idil Çakir +1 more
TL;DR: It has been concluded from the study that increasing the awareness of health tourism in a sustainable way is only possible by determining the expectations of the patients correctly and providing satisfaction through the realization of these expectations.
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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.