A systematic review of publications studies on medical tourism

Abstract

Introduction:Medical tourism for any study area is complex.Materials and Methods:Using full articles from other databases, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), Science Direct, Emerald, Oxford, Magiran, and Scientific Information Database (SID), to examine systematically published articles about medical tourism in the interval 2000-2011 paid. Articles were obtained using descriptive statistics and content analysis categories were analyzed.Results:Among the 28 articles reviewed, 11 cases were a kind of research articles, three cases were case studies in Mexico, India, Hungary, Germany, and Iran, and 14 were case studies, review documents and data were passed. The main topics of study included the definition of medical tourism, medical tourists’ motivation and development of medical tourism, ethical issues in medical tourism, and impact on health and medical tourism marketing.Conclusion:The findings indicate the definition of medical tourism in various articles, and medical tourists are motivated. However, most studies indicate the benefits of medical tourism in developing countries and more developed countries reflect the consequences of medical tourism.

The Benefits of Blockchain Technology for Medical Tourism

“…Undoubtedly, the Internet plays an important role in the medical tourism industry through facilitating the access to relatively objective and trustworthy information [38]. Recently, more and more tourists search Internet in order to collect information regarding medical tourism destination, healthcare provider, and available medical treatments before they decide to travel overseas [39]. Websites, informational pages, social media sites are among the most popular mediums of information about medical tourism and healthcare.…”

Services Marketing and Medical Tourism: The Impact on Private Health Services in Bangkok

“…Consequently, there is a need to be more precise with the terms used for patient's crossing-borders (Turner, 2010;Masoud et al, 2013). For the purposes of this research, medical tourism is the intentional, prearranged single purpose, non-emergency medical undertaking (Johnson, et al, 2010) and experience of medical procedures and interventions across borders (Footman, et al, 2014).…”

Definition of a new type of tourism niche—The geriatric tourism

“…The criteria for medical travel are in order of priority: technological advances, better quality of medically necessary procedures, quicker access to them, lower cost of these procedures, and lower cost of discretionary procedures (Lunt & Mannion, 2014). This is one of the main factors that medical and geriatric tourism are not the same: the geriatric patient travels mostly for leisure, away from hospital settings (Masoud, Alireza, Mahmoud & Zahra, 2013).…”