Medical tourism: A review of the literature and analysis of a role for bi-lateral trade

Smith, Richard; Álvarez, Melisa Martínez; Chanda, Rupa

doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2011.06.009

Cited by 121 publications

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“…Plausibly, source countries could develop bilateral relations with off-shore medical tourism facilities to leverage cost savings. However, even if opportunities for financial benefit and reduced waiting lists do exist there may remain significant political objections and sensitivities to such outsourcing (20) both for publicly funded systems and those funded through private and occupational health insurance. This for example helps explain why Medicaid and Medicare in the United States do not support patients travelling abroad for treatment despite the argument that this would deliver significant financial savings to the US Treasury.…”

Section: Politics Of Healthmentioning

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Patient mobility in the global marketplace: a multidisciplinary perspective

Lunt

Mannion

2014

Int J Health Policy Manag

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There is a growing global market in healthcare and patients. And while there is a small body of evidence emerging around this phenomenon commonly known as medical tourism there remain significant unanswered policy and research questions which need to be addressed. We outline some of the key issues set against the six key disciplinary preoccupations of the journal: epidemiology, health economics, health policy ethics, politics of health, health management, and health policy.

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Section: Politics Of Healthmentioning

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Patient mobility in the global marketplace: a multidisciplinary perspective

Lunt

Mannion

2014

Int J Health Policy Manag

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“…However, from a narrow definition, it means travel only the treatment of diseases, such as receiving surgery abroad www.jcosmetmed.org [6,7]. The government of the republic of Korea is carrying out the infrastructure expansion and institutional maintenance related to medical tourism, thus making efforts to foster the medical tourism industry, which is seen as the convergence of tourism and medical industries [8].…”

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Characteristics of cosmetic medical tourism in Korea

Chang-Won

2017

J Cosmet Med

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This review explores strategies to promote medical tourism in Korea through assessing the characteristics of cosmetic medical tourism selection by nationality, visiting clinics, and consumption tendency. It also discusses several issues regarding the medical tourism market in Korea, such as patient safety, patient satisfaction, medical visas, tax refunds, and legal aspects. The author reviewed articles that involved the cosmetic medical tourism in korea and summarized their findings. In 2015, the number of foreign pathients was 296,889, registering an increase of 11.1% compared to that of the previous year. This increasing trend has been registered since 2009, with an overall increase of 30.5% between 2009 and 2015. The number of registered medical institutions was 3,013 and that of medical tourism agencies 1,666 in 2016. In 2015, cosmetic surgery reported the highest total amount of medical costs from foreign patients, followed by internal medicine, general surgery, and medical checkups in this order. The government of South Korea supports medical tourism policies through programs that include the accreditation of medical institutions, issuance of medical visas, tax refunds, and assistance for medical dispute resolution. Recently, in an effort to support medical tourism through a systematic approach, the institution of MEDICAL KOREA was established in 2016. Various measures taken by the government are expected to help activate and promote medical tourism by ensuring quality medical services to be provided to medical tourists.

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“…[138] turismo médico en la ciudad de barranquilla: análisis de contexto para la creación de un clúster los actores del sector salud dio paso al robustecimiento de la oferta, consolidando una mayor circulación de pacientes transfronterizos (Smith, Martínez & Chanda, 2011).…”

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