The scoping review focuses on medical tourism, whereby consumers elect to travel across
borders or to overseas destinations to receive their treatment. Such treatments include …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the evolution of medical tourism (MT) research from
a longitudinal perspective (period 1931–2016). A co-word analysis was applied to themes …

Background It is imperative that researchers studying medical tourism connect their work
with policy, so that its real-world challenges can be better understood, and more effectively …

This paper explores motivations for diasporic medical tourism. Using a qualitative method it
seeks to understand diasporic medical tourism behaviour. Specifically, it examines the case …

How do professional service firms build the capabilities required for effective international
operations? Although the internationalization of manufacturing firms is a widely studied …

The potential benefits of travelling across national borders to obtain medical treatment
include improved care, decreased costs and reduced waiting times. However, medical travel …

Purpose–Uwe Reinhardt stated that medical tourism can do to the US healthcare system
what the Japanese automotive industry did to American carmakers after Japanese products …

Medical tourism is considered to be one of the most upcoming and profitable markets
worldwide. The objective of the study is to examine the potential and challenges of medical …

Background Stem cell therapies are advertised through online resources which describe a
range of treatments with diverse clinical indications. Stem cell tourists may not be aware of …

There is a growing global market in healthcare and patients. And while there is a small body
of evidence emerging around this phenomenon commonly known as medical tourism there …