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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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Presenting a Conceptual Model of Health Tourism with Emphasis on Word-of-Mouth Advertising in Health Centers: A Grounded Theory Approach
TL;DR: A Health Tourism Model with emphasis on word-of-mouth advertising in health centers is presented with an aim to identify the factors affecting the concept of health tourism by emphasizing the role of word- ofmouth advertising using a qualitative method.
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Stigmatisations, handicaps et identités à l’épreuve de l’éthique ethnomédicale
TL;DR: In this article, the question du handicap traverses les liens qui unissent les representations socio-culturelles, les stereotypes and la stigmatisation a la determination de l’identite.
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Marketing Practices of Medical Tourism over Recession and Upswing
Sangeeta,Rajiv Kumar,Annu Dahiya +2 more
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive model which examines the impact of cyclical variations on marketing practices of medical tourism is presented, which is validated using exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analyses.
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A Digital Application for Strategic Development of Health Tourism Destinations
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors describe the challenges, techniques, and methodologies to develop a digital tool that aims to improve framework conditions and tools for better utilization of Alpine natural resources in health tourism.
Selected problems of medical tourism - development, benefits, customers. case of poland wybrane problemy turystyki medycznej - rozwój, korzyści, klienci.
TL;DR: Polska wydaje sie byc atrakcyjna dla pacjentow nie tylko z krajow sąsiednich, takich jak Niemcy czy Rosja, but takze ze Skandynawii czy USA as mentioned in this paper.
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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.