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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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Investment Opportunities in Medical Entrepreneurship from a Global Snapshot
TL;DR: In this article , the authors discuss investment opportunities in medical entrepreneurship from a global perspective and discuss 25 investment opportunities that aspiring medical entrepreneurs with the support of venture capitalists, angels and financial institutions could explore and exploit for long-term streams of revenue in the global healthcare industry.
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Caracterización del turismo médico transfronterizo en Ciudad Juárez motivado por la crisis derivada del COVID-19
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A case of medical tourism?
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Health and Wellness Tourists’ Motivation and Behavior Intention: The Role of Perceived Value
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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.