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Medical Tourism Patient Mortality: Considerations From a 10-Year Review of Global News Media Representations

Medical Tourism Patient Mortality: Considerations From a 10-Year Review of Global News Media Representations

Alicia Mason, Sakshi Bhati, Ran Jiang, Elizabeth A. Spencer
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781799835769|ISBN10: 1799835766|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799835776|EISBN13: 9781799835783
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3576-9.ch011
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Mason, Alicia, et al. "Medical Tourism Patient Mortality: Considerations From a 10-Year Review of Global News Media Representations." Global Issues and Innovative Solutions in Healthcare, Culture, and the Environment, edited by Mika Merviö, IGI Global, 2020, pp. 206-225. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3576-9.ch011

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Mason, A., Bhati, S., Jiang, R., & Spencer, E. A. (2020). Medical Tourism Patient Mortality: Considerations From a 10-Year Review of Global News Media Representations. In M. Merviö (Ed.), Global Issues and Innovative Solutions in Healthcare, Culture, and the Environment (pp. 206-225). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3576-9.ch011

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Mason, Alicia, et al. "Medical Tourism Patient Mortality: Considerations From a 10-Year Review of Global News Media Representations." In Global Issues and Innovative Solutions in Healthcare, Culture, and the Environment, edited by Mika Merviö, 206-225. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3576-9.ch011

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Abstract

Medical tourism is a process in which a consumer travels from one's place of residence and receives medical treatment, thus becoming a patient. Patients Beyond Borders (PBB) forecasts some 1.9 million Americans will travel outside the United States for medical care in 2019. This chapter explores media representations of patient mortality associated with medical tourism within the global news media occurring between 2009-2019. A qualitative content analysis of 50 patient mortality cases found that (1) a majority of media representations of medical tourism patient death are of middle-class, minority females between 25-55 years of age who seek cosmetic surgery internationally; (2) sudden death, grief, and bereavement counseling is noticeably absent from medical tourism providers (MTPs); and (3) risk information from authority figures within the media reports is often vague and abstract. A detailed list of health communication recommendations and considerations for future medical tourists and their social support systems are provided.

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