Unsettled borders of care: medical tourism as a new dimension in america's health care crisis

Jenner, E.A.

doi:10.1016/s0275-4959(08)26011-4

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“…For example, in recent years important scholarship has emerged from anthropologists (e.g., Kangas, 2007), geographers (e.g., Warf, 2010), sociologists (e.g., Jenner, 2008), health care policy experts (e.g., Forgione & Smith, 2007), and bioethicists (e.g., Turner, 2007) alike. This scholarship demonstrates a keen interest among social and health scientists to critically assess the global medical tourism industry, including its impacts on individuals and nations.…”

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“…The expansion of the industry in India, Singapore, and Thailand, as well as other Asian nations, is a key part of national economic development and health sector planning. National governments in these countries take an active role in promoting their nations as destinations for foreign patients (Jenner, 2008;Mudur, 2003;Pachanee & Wibulpolprasert, 2006;Shetty, 2010). Government support for medical tourism includes sponsorship of trade shows and other promotional events held abroad that are designed to attract patients and market 'world class' medical facilities (Hughes, 1991;Pachanee & Wibulpolprasert, 2006).…”

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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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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 study concluded that service quality is an antecedent of satisfaction and satisfaction had a moderate effect on forest visitors' behavioral intention. In a study on health care customer satisfaction [51][52][53][54][55], researchers proposed a relationship among service quality, value, patient satisfaction and behavioral intention. 537 responses were collected from South Korea medical consumers to analyze the model.…”

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A Comprehensive Perspective on Medical Tourism Context and Create a Conceptual Framework

Lajevardi¹

2016

J Tourism Hospit

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“…Starting with some early publications, especially by American authors and promoters, there emerged a "master narrative" regarding the emergence and role of"medical tourism." According to that narrative, medical tourism grew in response to the crisis in Western medical systems; it holds a promise to ease the pressure on those systems, even as it offers patients the prospect of a high quality, but affordable, treatment in comfortable or luxurious surroundings, combined with a vacation in an "exotic '' destination (e.g., Connell 2006b;Horowitz and Rosensweig 2008;Jenner 2008;Turner 2007a). This popular narrative will be critically assessed here in the light of available evidence.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…The touristic aspect of the phenomenon has gained relatively little attention. Sociological publications on the topic are rare (Cook 2008), and deal with it predominantly in general terms (e.g., Connell2006a,2006bEsnard 2005;Garda-Altes 2005;Henderson 2009;Jenner 2008;Page 2009). Few case studies or comparative analyses of medical travel destinations have been published (e.g., Bochaton and Lefebvre 2009;Cohen 2008;George and N edelea 2009;Henderson 2004;Lautier 2008;War£ 2010).…”

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Medical Travel—A Critical Assessment

Cohen

2010

Tourism Recreation Research

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This article critically assesses some of the principal claims made regarding the scope, direction, composition, structure, significance and social consequences of medical tourism, epitomized in the prevailing "master narrative," which perceives the emergence of new medical hubs in the non-Western world primarily from the perspective of its significance for the crisis-ridden Western medical systems. "Medical travel" is suggested as a more adequate term to conceptualize the phenomenon than "medical tourism." While recognizing that a reversal in the direction of medical travel has taken place, with growing numbers of Westerners travelling for treatment to non-Western medical hubs, the article stresses the often over-looked predominance of intra-regional medical travel within the non-Western world, as a leading factor in the formation of the new medical hubs. It claims that Western medical travellers to those hubs seek primarily cosmetic and other elective treatments, which have only a marginal impact upon the crisis in Western medical systems. The often problematic consequences of medical travel for the host countries are pointed out. The constraints on the integration of medical travel into Western medical systems, and on the emergence of global medical travel governance are discussed, and the prospects for the growth of medical travel are assessed.

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Unsettled borders of care: medical tourism as a new dimension in america's health care crisis

Cited by 22 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 Comprehensive Perspective on Medical Tourism Context and Create a Conceptual Framework

Medical Travel—A Critical Assessment

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