Medical tourism continues to grow as the Internet helps individuals make appropriate
choices and informed decisions. This study investigated two areas of medical tourism …

Background Medical tourism is international travel with the intention of receiving medical
care. Medical tourists travel for many reasons, including cost savings, limited domestic …

Background: The medical tourism market is a rapidly growing sector fueled by increasing
health care costs, longer domestic waiting times, economic recession, and cheaper air …

Medical tourism has emerged as an industry due to the constantly improved information
technology and decreasing cost for transportation. Evidence on how medical tourists …

Background Medical tourism describes the private purchase and arrangement of medical
care by patients across international borders. Increasing numbers of medical facilities in …

Context: Medical tourism is a relatively new concept with rapidly growing application. It is
defined as purposeful travel to receive the health services provided in other countries and is …

Purpose–Non‐discursive practices such as the economy and political constellations have
always caused shifts in history. However, in the network society of today, these shifts have …

In this study the authors aim to discover the desired attributes of medical service providers
offering different medical treatments, using medical tourists who sought treatment in …

Background: Fifteen million US patients each year seek medical care abroad; however,
there are no data on outcomes and follow-up of these procedures. This study aims to …

While travel for physical well-being has long been a practice, medical tourism is an
emerging phenomenon characterized by medical care combined with holiday-making …