Export of health services from developing countries: The case of Tunisia

Lautier, Marc

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.01.057

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“…Third, in many instances the potential for cost savings is likely to hold true only for what are referred to as 'north-south' and 'west-east' medical tourists (i.e., those traveling from developed to developing nations) (The Economist, 2004;Lautier, 2008). It is thus possible that medical tourism hospitals and other companies avoid making cost saving claims that cannot be fulfilled for all international patients.…”

Section: Explaining the Relative Absence Of Cost Savings Messagesmentioning

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Promoting medical tourism to India: Messages, images, and the marketing of international patient travel

Crooks

Turner

Snyder

et al. 2011

Social Science & Medicine

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The practice of medical tourism depends on successfully informing potential patients about procedure options, treatment facilities, tourism opportunities, travel arrangements, and destination countries. The promotion of medical tourism includes a wide range of marketing materials such as flyers, booklets, and websites. Yet, there is a paucity of knowledge about the dissemination, content, and reception of these promotional materials. Drawing on a thematic content analysis of the promotional print material distributed at the first medical tourism trade show in Canada in 2009, the main purpose of this article is to identify and understand the messages and images that companies use to market India as a global destination. While researchers and news media frequently cite low cost procedures as a key determinant for international patient travel, particularly to developing nations, our analysis reveals few low costrelated images or messages in the promotional materials distributed at the trade show. To help explain this surprising disjuncture, we consider four related issues: (1) promotional materials may be designed to be circulated amongst potential patients' concerned family and friends who privilege knowing about things such as the use of advanced technologies; (2) developing nations need to portray safe and advanced treatment facilities in order to dispel potential patients' suspicions that their medical care is inferior; (3) companies may avoid making cost saving claims that cannot be fulfilled for all of their international patients, especially those traveling from developing nations; and (4) messages of low cost may detract from and even undermine messages about quality. We conclude by identifying numerous avenues for future research by social and health scientists, and by considering the implications of our findings for existing knowledge gaps and debates within health geography specifically.

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Section: Explaining the Relative Absence Of Cost Savings Messagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Promoting medical tourism to India: Messages, images, and the marketing of international patient travel

Crooks

Turner

Snyder

et al. 2011

Social Science & Medicine

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108

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“…The growth of medical tourism in Tunisia emanates from receiving an estimated 12 000 foreigners in 1998 (Chanda , 2001) to an estimated 42 000 in 2003 (Lautier, 2008) while 155 000 foreign patients went to Tunisia in 2013 (Tunisian Ministry of Health). We can say, therefore, that medical tourism is an important economic driver for developed countries as well as developing countries as its contribution to the growth of the economy, services and job creation is widely recognized.…”

Section: Personalized Recommender System For Tunisian Medical Tourismmentioning

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A Semantic Social Recommender System Using Ontologies Based Approach For Tunisian Tourism

Frikha

Mhiri

Gargouri

2015

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“…The noticeable point is growth healthcare services trade stock among other services share of world trade, that was 38% in 1997 and it was increased until 73% in 2003 and it has regularly being increased so far. The most noticeable matter about this increasing growth is stock of developing countries among total share from this world market that is 40% [4], [5]. Health tourism is going to Efflorescence in Asia and will have been expected value of this market grows until 4 billion dollars by 2012 [2], [6].…”

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The challenges of kish health tourism: A case study

Manoochehri

Farhangi

Someeh³

et al. 2014

International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

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Background: Health tourism industry is a new growing market that developing countries have a large effect on it and noticing this subject has been emphasized by the vision of twenty years strategic plan in Iran. On the other hand, increase of the neighbor countries' attention on this profitable market marker to a basic removal need of present challenges in Kish Free Zone. Objectives: Aim of this paper is to probe about the challenges of Kish health tourism identified in this case study at 2012 by qualitative method. Methods: Effective variables on health tourism were extracted from relative literature and then, variables in 34 groups were combined as a questionnaire with considering the proximity of concept and content. 14 persons were chosen as expert among the present and previous managers of tourism, healthcare system and health tourism areas by Modulation from simple and snowball sampling. Experts in addition to recognized challenges, expressed how significant is each one of health tourism developing factors and gave their expletive ideas about each challenges by Semi-structured interviews which were analyzed by Content Analysis Method. Results: The 13 main challenges of Kish health tourism extracted from interviews were related to policy making and planning, substructure and administrative problems, and macro affaires of country. Conclusions: Kish Free Zone Organization as governance representative in Kish should eliminate the existing challenges of health tourism industry in order to develop Kish health tourism.

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Export of health services from developing countries: The case of Tunisia

Cited by 101 publications

References 9 publications

Promoting medical tourism to India: Messages, images, and the marketing of international patient travel

Promoting medical tourism to India: Messages, images, and the marketing of international patient travel

A Semantic Social Recommender System Using Ontologies Based Approach For Tunisian Tourism

The challenges of kish health tourism: A case study

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