Medical tourism is a blend of tourism and healthcare as it is all about traveling beyond your national boundaries in order to seek medical treatment. The main motive of medical tourism is to save money on treatments and get the benefits of excellent medical facilities. Medical tourism includes health tourism, wellness tourism, dental, tourism, and spa tourism.
Wellness tourism is broader term in medical tourism, which emphasizes on enhancing the health conditions through alternative, traditional and complimentary healthcare services. Dental tourism is also an integral part of medical tourism, which refers to travelling overseas in order to achieve and maintain the dental health. Spa tourism aims to promote general healthcare and relaxation. It is based on the traditional healing of water as people move to natural hot water springs for relaxation and healing. Further, alternative wellness tourism includes traditional methods of curing and healing. Nowadays, many countries offering traditional methods of healing and curing chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease, metal disorders, joint pain, trauma, and other related problems. Countries like India and Singapore offer ayurveda, yoga and other traditional therapies to their guests in order to make them feel relax and promote health and wellbeing.
The recent economic turndown has also affected the sector of medical tourism like all other industries in the world. Accordingly, the standard definitions as well as attributions of value equation or cost equation have changed […]
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Chapter 24 from Dr. Prem’s guidebook on Medical Tourism provides information on cultural issues that medical tourists should be aware of prior to their medical journey. Researching the culture of a destination could help medical
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Chapter 14—The Medical Tourism Facilitator—from Dr. Prem’s guidebook on Medical Tourism describes the role of a facilitator and how they can help patients during the process of medical travel. Facilitators play the important function of
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If you are contemplating medical tourism, it would be prudent to discuss few realistic scenarios of what could possibly go wrong during medical travel. Issues related to post-operative care and complications arising are very common
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Medical Travel Destination Guide Medical Travel in Argentina Medical Travel in Australia Medical Travel in Barbados and Caribbean Medical Travel in Belgium Medical Travel in Brazil Medical Travel in Cayman Islands Medical Travel in China
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After extensive travel to over 25 medical tourism destinations, months of research and preparation, long nights of writing and exhaustive hours of editing, I have finally completed the first guidebook of my series. This guidebook
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Dr Prem Jagyasi – Author Steven Bannister – Editor Carolina Ratner – Researcher Jannat Amarnani – Writer, editor & contributor Selina Mirpuri – Editor Dr Sejal Shah – Writer Mr. Ashish – Writer Mr. Sheshadri
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It would be wrong to expect home-like comfort when travelling to a new destination. The hospital facilities and care might be not be at the level that you are accustomed to at home; it is
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