Global trade and mobility of people has increased rapidly over the last 20 years. This has
had profound consequences for the evolution and the movement of antibiotic resistance …

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 …

Evidence on medical tourism, including patient motivation, is increasing. Existing studies
have focused on identifying push and pull factors across different types of treatment, for …

Abstract Intra-regional South–South medical tourism is a vastly understudied subject despite
its significance in many parts of the Global South. This paper takes issue with the …

Objective To investigate the magnitude and characteristics of medical tourism in Thailand
and the impact of such tourism on the Thai health system and economy. Methods In 2010 …

Although a growing body of literature has emerged to study medical tourism and address the
policy challenges it creates for national health care systems, the comparative scholarship on …

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 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 …

The objective of the study is to explore the different factors that affect tourism development in
the panel of 34 developed and developing countries, over the period of 2005–2013. Energy …

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