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Telemedicine and e-Health, 2008 Searches of the literature or Internet using the term "medical tourism" produce two sets of articles: travel for the purpose of delivering health care or travel for the purpose of seeking health care. The first usage primarily appears in the medical literature and is beyond the scope of this article, which focuses on travel to seek health care.
Ronald C, Merrell +8 more
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AAOHN Journal, 2010 Medical tourism is becoming popular as an alternative to the high cost of health care in the United States and as an inexpensive resource for cosmetic surgery. The occupational health nurse is an excellent resource to assist in the pre-decision due diligence and post-decision travel health counseling.
Phyllis Berryman, Olga S. Tompkins
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Regulating medical tourism [PDF]
The Lancet, 2010 Letter to Lancet on need for regulation of medical tourism.
Crooks, Valorie, Snyder, Jeremy
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Voices in Bioethics, 2023 Photo ID 131102170 © Geckophotos | Dreamstime.com INTRODUCTION Medical tourism should contribute to developing a more robust healthcare system that acts in the best interests of patients and ensures equal access to healthcare. This paper examines medical tourism in Colombia and argues that developing a system that aligns with bioethical principles is ...
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Promises and Hurdles of Medical Tourism Development in the Russian Federation
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Background: Development of medical tourism improves access to healthcare in countries where the necessary medical procedures are not available or accessible to its citizens.
Arkady N. Daykhes +5 more
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The Pro-Medical Tourism Stance of Malaysia and How it Affects Stem Cell Tourism Industry
SAGE Open, 2021 Developing countries like India, Thailand, and Malaysia are promoting medical tourism as a commodity, generating income through their economic trade contributing to their national revenue.
Nishakanthi Gopalan +2 more
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The Expansion of Turkey’s Medical Tourism Industry
Voices in Bioethics, 2022 Photo by Engin Yapici on Unsplash ABSTRACT Medical tourism has excellent potential and downfalls, which this paper will extensively cover.
Nefes Pirzada
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Türkiye’de Medikal Turizm İncelemesi: Özel Hastanelerde Bir Çalışma
Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2019 Turkey shows rapid growth with the kinds of health care and health tourism. While Turkey is making an investment in tourism so as to increase the level of income earned from tourism and attracts more tourists, it also implements diversification policy ...
Zafer BUZCU, Kemal BİRDİR
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International Journal of Science and Research ArchiveMedical tourism refers to the movement of patients to countries outside their country of residence for medical reasons and access to high-quality services at lower costs. The causes of this phenomenon include economic differences in services between countries, shorter waiting times, and the modern technology that characterizes the healthcare systems of
Stoney RJ, Leidel L.
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DETERMINANTS OF OUTBOUND MEDICAL TOURISM: IMPLICATIONS FOR SERVICE MARKETING AND DEVELOPMENT [PDF]
Geo Journal of Tourism and Geosites, 2020 This study examined the demand factors responsible for outbound medical tourism to India, South-Africa and Germany. The demand factors included medical tourist attitude, medical destination competitiveness, medical service cost and medical service ...
Felix John EZE +2 more
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