{"id":21054,"date":"2014-12-29T11:09:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T11:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicaltourismfacilitator.com\/?p=7143"},"modified":"2014-12-29T11:09:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T11:09:21","slug":"looking-medical-tourism-academic-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/medical-tourism\/looking-medical-tourism-academic-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Medical Tourism from an academic perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The prospects of growth in the medical tourism industry are increasing every single day. These prospects have made the academic perspective of the medical tourism industry much clearer. It is no more an industry that deals with treating patients while they are on a vacation. It has rather become an important part of the world businesses.<\/p>\n

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It makes more investors invest for its further growth. This industry has become a job opportunity and has the potential to absorb a number of people owing to its continued growth, which is not going to stagnate in anytime soon. This has been the major reason for academic developments in the field of medical tourism, as it helps in knowledge and understanding of the elements of the medical tourism industry.<\/p>\n

Growth of patient mobility \u2013 steady increase in medical tourism<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The increase in number of patients travelling to avail medical treatments form other destinations has indeed flourished the medical tourism industry. There have been a lot many contributing factors like low cost flights etc for the growth of patient mobility throughout the world.<\/p>\n

Easy travel options and availability of medical tourism facilitators has made a huge difference to this industry. It is because of these service providers that people feel more enchanted towards travelling to other destinations for surgeries and other medical procedures.<\/p>\n

Growth factors associated with the medical tourism industry<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Social acceptability:<\/strong> The world and its culture have changes tremendously. The social views about concepts of cosmetic surgeries and other enhancing medical procedures have changed. There is a greater social acceptability regarding the entire concept of medical tourism industry today.<\/p>\n

Strong economic base:<\/strong> Today, the economic position of all individuals stands strong in comparison to a few years back. People today have greater availability to resources, which makes an increasing populous want to travel abroad for their medical treatments.<\/p>\n

Lack of research \u2013 a major downside<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Even though the medical tourism industry has grown tremendously, it still lacks some important embodiments that need to be worked upon to achieve further excellence. Lack of research programs, which are formal in their approach, is one of the major downsides of the medical tourism industry. Currently, there are hardly any researches being funded by trusts, and various other medical tourism organizations. This lack of research keeps the general public ill informed about the actual scenario of the industry.<\/p>\n

The kind of research activities needed<\/strong><\/p>\n

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