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What is Medical Tourism

Handbook of Research on Individualism and Identity in the Globalized Digital Age
Foreign travels meanly for medical or cosmetic surgery.
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The Need for Global Standards in Biomedical Ethics and the Qualitative Methodology
F. Sigmund Topor (Keio University, Japan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0522-8.ch010
Abstract
The unity of humanity has placed the role of culture in maintaining wellness and coping with illness under examination in biomedical research. The qualitative methodology, which is the method most widely used in healthcare research, been placed under the globalization microscope for its role in intercultural biomedical research. Neither does the etiology of diseases such as, for example, the common cold, the adenovirus and influenza respiratory viruses, among others, nor treatments of such ailments distinguish between the religious, geographic, and linguistic dissimilarities that violate the unity of humanity. The subjectivity that clods investigators of various cultural backgrounds and disciplinary stripes, deems it expedient that stakeholders be provided with the means to ontologically verify research findings. Researchers employing the qualitative methodology can mitigate subjectivity and enhance objectivity by being culturally cognizant. The unity of humanity is manifested in healthcare and transcends national borders, laws, ethics, and customs.
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Harmonizing Minds and Machines: A Transformative AI-Based Mental Healthcare Framework in Medical Tourism
People engage in medical tourism when they go to another country internationally for medical care. This could include elective procedures, specializations, or seeking more affordable or higher-quality medical care than in their home country.
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Strengthening the Bilateral Relationship Between India and Thailand Through Tourism
Travelling within a nation or overseas for medical treatment/surgery to purchase a medical product or healthcare service such as cancer surgery, cosmetic, dental, eye surgery, hip, and knee replacement.
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The Effects of COVID-19 on Health Tourism and Tourist Health
The practice of travelling abroad in order to receive medical treatment.
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Elderly Tourism Market: Elderly Consumers as a Target Group in Health Tourism
It is a type of health tourism that involves people traveling to another destination from their place of residence in order to get medical treatments (surgery, therapy, etc.) in health care facilities and expert health teams in order to find solutions to their health problems.
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Strategic Indicators of the Role of Government in Developing Dubai as a Medical Tourism Hub
Medical tourism is a phenomenon, where people travel abroad for medical treatment and surgery to improve their health and quality of life.
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Medical Tourism: Analysis and Expectations Worldwide
The practice of travelling abroad in order to receive medical treatment.
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Best “Experience” Practices in Medical Tourism
An increase tendency that patients are going overseas as tourists to receive wellbeing treatments, health therapies, or medical surgeries.
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Understanding the Brand Management and Rebranding Processes in Specific Contexts of Medical Tourism
Refers to people traveling abroad to obtain medical treatment. Health tourism is a wider term for travel that focuses on medical treatments and the use of healthcare services. It covers a wide field of health-oriented, tourism ranging from preventive and health-conductive treatment to rehabilitational and curative forms of travel.
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Medical, Pharmaceutical, and Healthcare Trade Relationships Between Australia and South Asian Nations
The process of traveling outside the country of residence for the purpose of receiving medical care. Originally, the term referred to the travel of patients from less-developed countries to developed nations in pursuit of the treatments not available in their homeland.
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Health and Travel for Consumers: A Bibliometric Analysis of 20 Years of Health Tourism
It refers to the travels of individuals to different places to have medical procedures.
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Health Export and Health Tourism Roles in European Union Countries
The second subtype of tourism is the medical tourism, which covers diagnosis, cure, reatments, preventation etc.
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A Novel Neutrosophic Interpretive Structural Modeling Approach: Hierarchical Visual Graphs of Indeterminate Causalities
An opportunity fot the patients’ access to medical institutions for treatment/rehabilitation outside their country of residence.
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Competitiveness in Medical Tourism: An Evaluation on Kocaeli Medical Tourism Market
Medical tourism can be defined as people’s traveling to a country other than the one in which they live in order to receive any treatment within the scope of surgery, medical or dentistry. Medical tourism is not only of medical diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation implementations but also a multidisciplinary perspective in terms of promotion, hotel management, agentship, environment, architecture and economy.
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Web Resources on Medical Tourism: A Webometric Study
Medical tourism is defined as any kind of travel to make a person or member of his family healthier.
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A Model for the Discussion of Medical Tourism
A need for a medical procedure or treatment in combination with a motive of availability, timeliness, or cost with the desire to travel to another country where the individual chooses another country for care.
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“Infernum”: Economic Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Health Tourism Industry – A Snapshot
Is defined as people preferring to travel different countries for a treatment or a surgery due to lower nursery costs or better nursery care. The main difference between the medical and wellness tourism is that medical tourism is chosen by the unhealthy people ( GSS, 2011 ).
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