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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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Fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine-based counterfeit pills sold at tourist-oriented pharmacies in Mexico: An ethnographic and drug checking study.
Joseph Friedman,Morgan E Godvin,Caitlin Molina,Ruby Romero,Annick Borquez,Tucker Avra,David Goodman-Meza,Steffanie A. Strathdee,Philippe Bourgois,Chelsea L. Shover +9 more
TL;DR: In this article , the availability of counterfeit and authentic controlled substances at pharmacies in Northern Mexico available to English-speaking tourists without a prescription has been investigated, using an iterative, exploratory, mixed methods design.
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The role of medical travel facilitators in medical tourism
TL;DR: To what degree the medical tourism facilitators help the regional culture in medical tourism is explored and to both health practitioners and companies involved in the area and future scientists it is also advantageous.
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Emerging trends in employee competences in Polish therapeutic tourism enterprises
TL;DR: In this article , a focus group conducted with 16 representatives of top management in therapeutic and tourism enterprises indicated that problem-solving skills, creativity and cooperation/collaboration with other people will be the most useful soft skills for the future operation of therapeutic enterprises, whereas implementation of new IT solutions, building and maintaining relations with clients, and writing blogs and activity in social media are hard skills that will require the most rapid changes.
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The effect of servi̇ce quali̇ty on pati̇ent sati̇sfacti̇on and pati̇ent loyalty i̇n medi̇cal touri̇sm: a study on the turki̇sh di̇aspora
TL;DR: In this paper , the effect of service quality on satisfaction and loyalty of the citizens of the Republic of Turkey (Turkish Diaspora in the Netherlands), who reside in the Kingdom of the Netherlands and have received health services from Turkey was investigated.
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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.