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"Introduction In a nutshell, medical tourism is the practice of traveling outside one's hometown to access medical or dental care, or costly and sophisticated diagnostic testing. For most medical travelers, depending on the destination location and procedure sought, the savings can be from 50% to as great as 90% of the price paid at home. It amazes me when people in the health care and insurance industries look at me dumbfounded when I speak about medical tourism. Some furrow their eyebrows, others shake their heads in bewilderment, and still others dismiss the idea with some offhand comment that if they ignore it, it will not exist. I have a cat that does the last response to many things, but she's a cat. Most of the folks I hang out with are executives in health care or insurance, health law attorneys, academics, or health care professionals. Not cats! So when they dismiss this growing trend, I have to wonder where they will be in the next 5 years. In the United States, there are around 7,500 hospitals with their doors still open. That too, amazes me when I see who is at the helm, and their leadership style, market awareness, and lack of strategic planning. According to a study done by Dr. Paul Keckley of Deloitte in 2008, each one of those US hospitals lost an average of 10 cases from their community to somewhere else on the planet. Worse yet, each hospital lost an average of $21,000 in revenue, (not billed charges) to hospitals elsewhere in the world--hospitals that collected 100% of their fees on those cases, from cash paying customers that went there with US dollars in hand, ready to pay their bill in advance for the high-quality and high-tech health care services rendered. Although the Deloitte Center for Health Care Solutions' volume estimates do not appear to be"--
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Si Robin Cook est considéré comme le maître incontesté du thriller médical, c’est qu’au fil des ans, ce médecin-spécialiste a su introduire dans des scénarios au suspense parfait, des sujets d’actualité qui nous concernent tous : greffes, dons d’organe, génétique…Morts accidentelles nous entraîne en Inde où le tourisme médical devient une des richesses du pays. Quand CNN révèle que plusieurs opérations, à priori banales, se sont soldées par la mort de malades occidentaux, une étudiante californienne découvre avec stupeur que sa grand-mère fait partie des victimes. Bien décidée à savoir ce qui s’est passé, elle part mener son enquête à New Delhi, ouvrant une redoutable boîte de Pandore où se mêlent économie locale, corruption et manipulation des médias.
Medical Tourism --- Death
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Examines the phenomenon of health travel. This book presents a multidisciplinary account of the way in which lower costs, shorter waiting times, different services, and the chance to combine recreational tourism with a check-up or an operation that have come together to make medical travel an industry with the potential to create jobs and wealth.
Medical tourism. --- Medical tourism --- Public welfare. --- Economic aspects.
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Medical Tourism and Wellness: Hospitality Bridging Healthcare (H2H) takes a systems approach to examining the growing field of medical tourism, one of the field's hottest niches, with billions of dollars spent each year. This important book fills the need for a modern management book that looks at medical tourism in depth from a medical and hospitality operational management perspective. Growing numbers of people are going abroad to find affordable quality medical care for both necessary and cosmetic medical services. When they require surgery or dental work, they combine it with a trip to the Taj Mahal, a photo safari on the African veldt, or a stay at a luxury hotel-or at a hospital that feels like one-all at bargain-basement prices. The book takes a comprehensive look at medical tourism, covering such topics as: The history of medical tourism Why patients/tourists decide to travel for medical care The role of professional facilitators of medical tourism Key countries and medical disciplines in medical tourism Transportation, food, entertainment, and hotel/hospitality services Hotel and spa designs for medical tourism Best practices in medical tourism Patient follow-up after medical discharge Future trends in medical tourism Careers in medical tourism With the inclusion of case studies, the book provides a comprehensive look into this growing trend and will be valuable to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in health care administration and those pursing MBAs in healthcare, medical students pursuing a management focus, and students in hospitality management. It will also be a must-have resource for professionals working in hotels and in health care.
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Looking beyond sun, sand and sea, Medical and Wellness Tourism in Jamaica delves into the world of health and wellness tourism in the Caribbean. Drawing on relevant and current statistics and data, the global state of the health and wellness tourism industry is presented and the future prospects for the Caribbean discussed and analysed.
Medical tourism. --- Medical care. --- Travel.
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The Intersection of Star Culture in America and International Medical Tourism: Celebrity Treatment argues that celebrity cases and media content drive awareness of medical tourism among Americans at a time when the medical system is under intense scrutiny. By popularizing international sites for treatment, procedures not available in the US, and different approaches to patient care, media narratives present options for health care, triggering dialogue on one of America's most important human welfare issues.
Medical tourism --- Celebrities. --- Medical care.
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"International medical travel (IMT), people crossing national borders in the pursuit of healthcare, has become a growing phenomenon. With many of the countries currently being promoted as IMT destinations holding developing status, IMT poses a significant challenge to popular assumptions about who provides and receives care since it inverses and diversifies presumed directionalities of care.This book analyses the development of international medical travel in Malaysia. It challenges embedded assumptions about the sources, directions and political value of care. The author situates the Malaysian case study material at the fruitful cross-section of a range of literatures such as international medical travel (IMT); the role of cross-border mobility in the construction of identity; care and hospitality; therapeutic landscapes; place-branding and medical diplomacy. The book thus contributes to wider debates that have emerged around the changing character of global health governance"--Provided by publisher.
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