scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

Contemporary medical tourism: Conceptualisation, culture and commodification

John Connell
- 01 Feb 2013 - 
- Vol. 34, pp 1-13
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
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

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine-based counterfeit pills sold at tourist-oriented pharmacies in Mexico: An ethnographic and drug checking study.

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.
Journal Article

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.
Journal ArticleDOI

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.
Journal ArticleDOI

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.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

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.
Book

Health and Wellness Tourism

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.
Book

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.
Journal ArticleDOI

Medical tourism: assessing the evidence on treatment abroad.

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.
Journal ArticleDOI

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.
Related Papers (5)
Trending Questions (1)
What are some of the problems and issues caused by intermediaries in medical tourism?

The paper does not specifically mention the problems and issues caused by intermediaries in medical tourism.