Risks And Challenges In Medical Tourism

Author : Jill R. Hodges,Ann Marie Kimball,Leigh Turner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780313399367

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Risks and Challenges in Medical Tourism by Jill R. Hodges,Ann Marie Kimball,Leigh Turner Pdf

A multidisciplinary international team examines the safety, ethics, and health implications of the emerging global market for health care, and the issues that arise when patients cross borders for medical procedures they cannot afford or access at home, from liposuction to kidney transplants. Risks and Challenges in Medical Tourism: Understanding the Global Market for Health Services provides an in-depth, comprehensive assessment of the benefits and risks when health care becomes a global commodity. The collection includes contributions from leading scholars in law and public policy, medicine and public health, bioethics, anthropology, health geography, and economics. This timely and informative handbook looks at medical tourism from the perspective of some of the major regions that send and receive medical tourists, including the United States, the European Union, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Contributors examine how government agencies, medical tourism companies, international hospital chains, and other organizations promote medical tourism and the globalization of health care. The topics explored include the legal remedies available to medical tourists when procedures go awry; potential consequences when patients cross borders for medical procedures that are illegal in their home countries; the relationship of medical tourism to international spread of infectious disease; and the lack of adequate transnational policies and regulations governing the global market for health services.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Dr Prem
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Medical Tourism: Research & Survey Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Arguin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:729272633

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Health Information for International Travel 2005-2006 by Paul Arguin Pdf

Author : Amit Agrawal,Srinivas Kosgi
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781839695667

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Healthcare Access by Amit Agrawal,Srinivas Kosgi Pdf

Adequate healthcare access not only requires the availability of comprehensive healthcare facilities but also affordability and knowledge of the availability of these services. As an extended responsibility, healthcare providers can create mechanisms to facilitate subjective decision-making in accessing the right kind of healthcare services as well various options to support financial needs to bear healthcare-related expenses while seeking health and fulfilling the healthcare needs of the population. This volume brings together experiences and opinions from global leaders to develop affordable, sustainable, and uniformly available options to access healthcare services.

Author : Cooper, Malcolm
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781466685758

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Current Issues and Emerging Trends in Medical Tourism by Cooper, Malcolm Pdf

The era of globalization allows for more connectivity between nations and cultures. This increase in international association gives citizens more availability to take advantage of opportunities in other nations, such as medical assistance and accompanying services. Current Issues and Emerging Trends in Medical Tourism focuses on the emerging phenomena of international travel by patients in search of improved healthcare services and treatment, wellness programs, and complementary recreational activities. Including extensive coverage and case studies focusing on patient mobility and new opportunities for health services across borders, this authoritative reference source is essential to the needs of healthcare providers, nonprofit organizations, students, and medical professionals seeking relevant research on the relationship between global travel and access to healthcare. This publication features innovative, research-based chapters spanning the spectrum of medical travel issues including, but not limited to, customer perceptions, ethical considerations, reproductive medicine, social media use, family caregivers, organ transplants, human trafficking, and surrogacy concerns.

Author : CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION. (CDC)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190065973

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CDC Yellow Book 2020 by CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION. (CDC) Pdf

The definitive reference for travel medicine, updated for 2020! "A beloved travel must-have for the intrepid wanderer." -Publishers Weekly "A truly excellent and comprehensive resource." -Journal of Hospital Infection The CDC Yellow Book offers everything travelers and healthcare providers need to know for safe and healthy travel abroad. This 2020 edition includes: · Country-specific risk guidelines for yellow fever and malaria, including expert recommendations and 26 detailed, country-level maps · Detailed maps showing distribution of travel-related illnesses, including dengue, Japanese encephalitis, meningococcal meningitis, and schistosomiasis · Guidelines for self-treating common travel conditions, including altitude illness, jet lag, motion sickness, and travelers' diarrhea · Expert guidance on food and drink precautions to avoid illness, plus water-disinfection techniques for travel to remote destinations · Specialized guidelines for non-leisure travelers, study abroad, work-related travel, and travel to mass gatherings · Advice on medical tourism, complementary and integrative health approaches, and counterfeit drugs · Updated guidance for pre-travel consultations · Advice for obtaining healthcare abroad, including guidance on different types of travel insurance · Health insights around 15 popular tourist destinations and itineraries · Recommendations for traveling with infants and children · Advising travelers with specific needs, including those with chronic medical conditions or weakened immune systems, health care workers, humanitarian aid workers, long-term travelers and expatriates, and last-minute travelers · Considerations for newly arrived adoptees, immigrants, and refugees Long the most trusted book of its kind, the CDC Yellow Book is an essential resource in an ever-changing field -- and an ever-changing world.

Author : Leo Rask
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1681174316

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Evolution of Medical Tourism by Leo Rask Pdf

In the recent past, a trend known as medical tourism has emerged wherein citizens of highly developed countries choose to bypass care offered in their own communities and travel to less developed areas of the world to receive a wide variety of medical services. The practice of travelling for health and medical reasons has a long history. Even the ancient civilizations recognized the therapeutic effects of mineral thermal springs and sacred temple baths. For example, the Sumerians constructed health complexes around hot springs more than four thousand years ago, which included temples with flowing pools. Ancient Romans built resorts with thermal health spas, and therapeutic temples thrived during the Greek domain. Ancient Greeks were known for their travels to the sanctuary of the healing god, Asklepios, believed to reveal remedies for different ailments in the dreams. This sanctuary was in fact a small territory in the Saronic Gulf named Epidauria today considered as the birthplace of medical tourism as we know it. Medical tourism is becoming increasingly popular. "Medical tourism" refers to traveling to another country for medical care. It's estimated that up to 750,000 US residents travel abroad for care each year. Many people who travel for care do so because treatment is much cheaper in another country. In addition, a large number of medical tourists are immigrants to the United States returning to their home country for care. The most common procedures that people undergo on medical tourism trips include cosmetic surgery, dentistry, and heart surgery. This phenomenon is driven by marketplace forces and occurs outside of the view and control of the organized healthcare system. Medical tourism presents important concerns and challenges as well as potential opportunities. Medical tourists are subject to a variety of risks, which may include deep vein thrombosis, tuberculosis, amoebic dysentery, paratyphoid, poor post-operative care, and others. Medical tourism is fundamentally different from the traditional model of international medical travel where patients generally journey from less developed nations to major medical centers in highly developed countries for medical treatment that is unavailable in their own communities. Growing competition for affordable and accessible medical resources and providers has prompted a user-friendly yet thorough analysis of the medical tourism industry of the past, present and future in this meticulously researched and compiled how to for up and coming as well as well-established medical providers around the world. Evolution of Medical Tourism shields such topics as the future of the global healthcare industry to dealing with supply and demand in the medical tourism industry. It covers from developing marketing channels to the importance of patient nurturing, negotiations and patient acquisition.

Author : Paul, Sudip,Kulshreshtha, Sharad Kumar
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781522597889

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Global Developments in Healthcare and Medical Tourism by Paul, Sudip,Kulshreshtha, Sharad Kumar Pdf

The outbreak of global health issues due to rapid urbanization, industrialization, and changing climatic conditions are severely impacting health and lifestyle. Yet, healthcare and medical services continue to increase in cost in developed nations. This can result in medical tourism, wherein patients travel across countries in order to benefit from medical treatment that might not be accessible in the traveler’s nation of origin. Developing countries are prepared to capitalize on this growing industry by offering multi-specialty healthcare hospitals, cost-effective treatments, and the promotion of online medical consultancy. Global Developments in Healthcare and Medical Tourism provides innovative insights into issues impacting healthcare services, healthcare service providers, government policies, and initiatives for health reforms and explores low-cost medical tourism destinations and practices. The book additionally seeks to deliver high-quality, cost-efficient smart healthcare applications. The content within this publication examines global health, wellness tourism, and global business and is designed for students, researchers, academicians, policymakers, government officials, medical practitioners, and industry professionals.

Author : C. Michael Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136270529

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Medical Tourism by C. Michael Hall Pdf

Medical and health tourism is a significant area of growth in the export of medical, health and tourism services. Although spas and improved well-being have long been part of the tourist experience, health tourism now includes travel for medical purposes ranging from cosmetic and dental surgery through to transplants and infertility treatment. Many countries including China, Cuba, Hungary, India, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore actively promote and compete for the medical tourist dollar, while many developed countries also provide niche private services. However, the field of medical tourism is increasingly being subject to scrutiny and debate, particularly as a result of concerns over regulatory, ethical and wider health issues. Drawing on a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, this book is one of the first to critically address the substantial political, philosophical and ethical issues that arise out of the transnational practices of medical tourism. Through a series of chapters the book engages with key issues such as the role of regulatory and policy structures in influencing medical and health tourism related mobilities. These issues are investigated by considering range of developing and developed countries, medical systems and health economic perspectives. The book adopts a multi-layered perspective to not only investigate the business and marketing practices of medical and health tourism but places these within a broader framework of contemporary globalisation, policy and practice. By doing so it opens up debate of the ethical space in which medical and health tourism operates as well as reinforce the wide ranging perspectives that exist on the subject in both the public and academic imagination. This significant contribution will be of interest to students, academics in tourism and medical policy, trade and economic development fields.

Author : Jayshree Bose
Publisher : SBS Publishers
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8131427293

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Medical Tourism by Jayshree Bose Pdf

CONTENTS: The Globalisation of Medicine: The Emerging Market of Medical Tourists - Estimates, Challenges & Prospects; Wrong Direction: One Out of Three Americans & Uninsured; Interview with Prathap Reddy - Chairman of Apollo Hospitals; Medical Value Travel - The Indian Chapter; The Globalisation of Healthcare; Contemporary Trends in Healthcare Design & Architecture & their Role in Medical Tourism; Healthcare Accreditation & the Medical Tourism Sector: Some Perspectives; Legal Issues in Medical Tourism - Global Perspective; International Health Insurance & the Indian Healthcare Industry; Medical Tourism: Implications for Participants in the US Health Care System; Role of Central & State Governments in Promoting Medical Tourism in India; MRI Tourists; Alternative Medicine - Avenue for Medical Tourism; Medical Tourism- The Thai Success; Singapore - A Medical Tourism Success Story; Challenges & Opportunities in the Philippine Medical Tourism Industry; A Boost for Medical Tourism in Malaysia.

Author : I. Glenn Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199917907

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The Globalization of Health Care by I. Glenn Cohen Pdf

The Globalization of Health Care is the first book to offer a comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of the most interesting and broadest reaching development in health care of the last twenty years: its globalization. It ties together the manifestation of this globalization in four related subject areas - medical tourism, medical migration (the physician "brain drain"), telemedicine, and pharmaceutical research and development, and integrates them in a philosophical discussion of issues of justice and equity relating to the globalization of health care. The time for such an examination is right. Medical tourism and telemedicine are growing multi-billion-dollar industries affecting large numbers of patients. The U.S. heavily depends on foreign-trained doctors to staff its health care system, and nearly forty percent of clinical trials are now run in the developing world, with indications of as much of a 10-fold increase in the past 20 years. NGOs across the world are agitating for increased access to necessary pharmaceuticals in the developing world, claiming that better access to medicine would save millions from early death at a relatively low cost. Coming on the heels of the most expansive reform to U.S. health care in fifty years, this book plots the ways in which this globalization will develop as the reform is implemented.

Author : M. Bookman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230605657

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Medical Tourism in Developing Countries by M. Bookman Pdf

Western patients are increasingly travelling to developing countries for health care and developing countries are increasingly offering their skills and facilities to paying foreign customers. The potential and implications of this international trade in medical services is explored in this book through analysis of the market.

Author : Jason L. Stienmetz,Berta Ferrer-Rosell,David Massimo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9783030947514

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Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2022 by Jason L. Stienmetz,Berta Ferrer-Rosell,David Massimo Pdf

This open access book presents the proceedings of the International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT)’s 29th Annual International eTourism Conference, which assembles the latest research presented at the ENTER2022 conference, which will be held on January 11–14, 2022. The book provides an extensive overview of how information and communication technologies can be used to develop tourism and hospitality. It covers the latest research on various topics within the field, including augmented and virtual reality, website development, social media use, e-learning, big data, analytics, and recommendation systems. The readers will gain insights and ideas on how information and communication technologies can be used in tourism and hospitality. Academics working in the eTourism field, as well as students and practitioners, will find up-to-date information on the status of research.

Author : C. Gobalakrishnan
Publisher : MJP Publisher
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Sociology of Medical Tourism by C. Gobalakrishnan Pdf

Tourism is a global phenomenon. Because it is an important, even vital, source of income for many countries in the world. Its importance was recognized in the Manila Declaration on World Tourism of 1980 as “an activity essential to the life of nations because of its direct effects on the social, cultural, educational, and economic sectors of national societies and on their international relations and its indirect effects on the development of allied industries like transport, hotel etc.”.Medical Tourism is one form of tourisms and which means a journey that patients take from one country to another country to get cost effective and efficient medical treatment, followed by a great vacation at some of the most beautiful locations. India is one of the major players in this industry. Currently, it hosts about 1.27 million medical tourists from industrialized countries like UK, USA and Canada and from its neighboring countries such as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and China. Its foreign exchange earnings from medical tourism are estimated to be around US $ 1.8 billion. The estimated number of medial tourists in India in 2015 would be between 1.21 million and 2.78 million. The estimated revenue would lie between US $ 1719 million to US $ 3964 million in 2015. Medical tourism industry in India has potential to contribute around 25 percent to the country’s Gross Domestic Product in the next five years, if fully tapped.The present book titled Sociology of Medical Tourism highlights various dimensions, identifies different issues and suggests further development of this multimillion dollar industry in India in an in-depth manner. Medical Tourism is one of the most important trust areas which emerge in the past century and because of its multiple level of use it also become subject matter of research in various subjects including Sociology. It is hoped that this book, with its wide-ranging and in-depth content, critical insights and detailed analysis of the concept, prove to be immensely resourceful to the readers. I also assure that this book should be proven an informative referral for those who are working and doing research in the field of medical tourism.

Author : Singh, Manjeet,Kumaran, Subbaraman
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781799834298

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Growth of the Medical Tourism Industry and Its Impact on Society: Emerging Research and Opportunities by Singh, Manjeet,Kumaran, Subbaraman Pdf

Healthcare and medical services have seen rapid development in various areas of the world, including Asia and Eastern Europe. These territories are now becoming a medical hub for many surrounding countries. Medical tourism is the practice of traveling to international regions for treatment that isn’t available locally. This subject has gained significant attention throughout the tourism industry, as researchers and professionals are searching for specific advancements of medical care and hospital development in numerous countries. Growth of the Medical Tourism Industry and Its Impact on Society: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a collection of innovative research on the methods and advancement of medical travel for treatment in various global regions and provides insights for the growth prospects of the medical tourism business. While highlighting topics including destination branding, community impact, and hospital management, this book is ideally designed for medical executives, hospital directors, researchers, policymakers, academicians, practitioners, scholars, and students seeking current research on tourism practices within the medical field.