Trends and structural shifts in health tourism: Evidence from seasonal time-series data on health-related travel spending by Canada during 1970–2010

Loh, Chung-Ping A.

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.03.036

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“…India and the McKinsey Company (LLC). Similar results have been seen in a study that has surveyed the time trends in health tourism in Canada (Loh, 2015), and recent studies have shown that the size of the global medical tourism market increased about 2.5 times from 2004 to 2012 by approximately USD 10 billion, and it is expected to reach approximately USD 33 billion by 2019 (Seo & Park, 2018).…”

Section: Medical Tourism As a Phenomenasupporting

confidence: 77%

Medical Tourism in a Socialized Health Care System—The Need for Strict Systemic Supervision

Perry¹,

Apel‐Sarid²,

Salzer³

et al. 2019

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Medical tourism is defined by the active act of traveling from a patient’s country of origin to a different country, specifically to receive medical treatment. Globalization has made a tremendous change in the field of medical tourism. Medical tourism statistics revealed an anticipated growth of the industry from about $40 billion in 2004 to $100 billion by 2012, as estimated by the McKinsey Company (Shetty, 2010). The size of the global medical tourism market increased about 2.5 times from 2004 to 2012 by approximately USD 10 billion, and it is expected to reach approximately USD 33 billion by 2019 (Seo & Park, 2018). Israel has emerged as a medical tourism destination due to the advantages it can offer. Israel’s facilities are recognized throughout the world, and provide high quality of care at reasonable prices. But, Israel has a socialized health care system. This means that the national health insurance program is financed mainly by the government from public sources, such as health insurance tax that is collected by the general payroll and other general tax revenues, but also directly from the public through out-of-pocket money and private complementary health insurances. In comparison to OECD countries, Israel’s hospitals are characterized by a very low bed to population ratio, an extremely low average length of stay, a high rate of admissions per 1000 population, and a high occupancy rate, which means this is already a very “lean” and effective system, that is on the verge of collapse due to a lack of funding. In relation to this medical tourism raises a lot of ethical, moral and economic issues for the Israeli health system. In the current article we try to shed some light upon these problems and suggest feasible solutions for them.We suggest that countries should adopt an ethical code and health policy, which will be used by local hospitals to maintain the delicate balance between medical services to the local population and medical tourism.

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Section: Medical Tourism As a Phenomenasupporting

confidence: 77%

Medical Tourism in a Socialized Health Care System—The Need for Strict Systemic Supervision

Perry¹,

Apel‐Sarid²,

Salzer³

et al. 2019

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“…The current studies are mainly about the factors affecting medical tourism demand (Lin, Lee & Huang. 2009;Ferrer & Medhekar, 2012, Johnson & Garman, 2015Loh, 2015;Vetitnev, Kopyirin & Kiseleva, 2016;Tang & Lau, 2017;Tang & Abdullah, 2018;Loh & Triplett, 2019;Nilashi, Samad, Manaf, Ahmadi, Rashid, Munshi et al, 2019;Arulmozhi, Praveenkumar, Vinayagamoorthi, 2019;Al-Talabani, Kilic, Ozturen & Qasim, 2019;Sedianingsih, Ratnasari, Prasetyo & Hendarjatno, 2019), MTSSC management principles such as coordination, collaboration, information exchange and integration Perkumiene, Vienažindiene & Švagždiene, 2019;Cho & Lee, 2019;Karadayi-Usta & Serdarasan, 2019), perceived MTSSC quality (Debata, Patnaik & Mahapatra, 2012;Rahman 2019;Mohd Isa, Lim & Chin, 2019;Sadeh & Garkaz, 2019), benefits and risks of medical travel (Kumar et al, 2012), partnership quality between health institutions and travel agencies (Lin, 2014), and supply chain network modelling (Ahmadimanesh, Paydar & Asadi-Gangraj, 2019).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rahman and Zailani (2017) report trust as an important determinant in generating medical tourism demand. There are studies in medical tourism literature focusing on increasing demand for halal medical tourism services (Medhekar & Haq, 2015;Rahman & Zailani, 2017), and studying various host countries' demand patterns (Lin et al, 2009;Genc, 2012;Johnson & Garman, 2015;Loh, 2015;Vetitnev, Kopyirin & Kiseleva, 2016;Dang, Huang, Wang & Nguyen, 2016;Tang & Lau, 2017;Tang & Abdullah, 2018).…”

Section: Demand Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

A conceptual model of medical tourism service supply chain

Karadayi-Usta

Serdarasan

2020

JIEM

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Purpose: Medical tourism service requires involvement of multiple parties from the service network, however medical tourism is not well studied from a supply chain management perspective. This study suggests a conceptual model of medical tourism service supply chain (MTSSC) to provide a clearer understanding of its nature, and defines its business processes.Design/methodology/approach: Triangulation which makes use of literature review, in-depth interviews, and expert evaluations was applied to develop and validate the suggested model. The proposed model is initialized based on the relevant literature. In-depth interviews were used to refine and finalize the model. Expert evaluations ensure the trustworthiness of the model and the business process definitions.Findings: The proposed model uses a nested process structure rather than a one-dimensional supply chain model, where the assistance company maintains an intermediary role between the patient and all the service providers (e.g. medical institutions, transportation, accommodation). Additionally, the conceptual model identifies seven business processes: service design, service recovery management, customer relationship management, supplier relationship management, demand management, capacity and resource management, and service delivery management.Practical implications: The results provide a better understanding of the MTSSC structure and processes, and a recognition of the MTSSC members. The process definitions give the members an idea about their roles in the service design and delivery in practice. Additionally, a better understanding of the system as a whole leads to better process development and control. MTSSC members may shape their organizations internally and supply chain-wide by considering this conceptual model. Moreover, the model acts as a basis for supply chain collaboration decisions.Originality/value: The conceptual model is built upon the theories and practice of medical tourism services, supply chain management, and service operations management. This study contributes to the theory of medical tourism services management by explaining the MTSSC concepts and business processes, and extends existing knowledge.

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“…However, no unequivocal research on the financial effects of health tourism was found, and the review of previous literature indicates that there are limited related studies. In other words, only a few researchers have focused on the financial effects and expenditure of health tourism (Johnson et al 2015, Loh 2014Loh 2015, Ridderstaat et al 2018, Hodžić and Paleka 2018.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health Tourism Market in Poland and Croatia – Financial Effects and Potentials

Dragičević¹,

Paleka²

2019

Tourism in Southern and Eastern Europe

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Purpose -In recent decades, health tourism has developed as a strong trend, parallel with another global megatrend -the growing popularity of health awareness. Health tourism market, in the European Union, is a new and robust niche, with an estimated 56.0 million domestic and 5.1 million international arrivals in 2014. The purpose of this paper is to describe the main characteristics and to analyse some of the challenges of developing health tourism in Poland and Croatia. Also, the financial effects of these health tourism markets are compared and evaluated. Methodology -The comparative analysis of secondary data, including the statistics of health tourism financial effects in Poland and Croatia, is done. The methodology of the paper also includes description and analysis of the current strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats through a SWOT analysis of Polish and Croatian health tourism. Findings -Research results show that there is reasonable ground to state that health tourism in Poland and Croatia can be a strong take-off point for their tourism in general, as well as an export product of particular significance for these countries. However, there are still many obstacles in this journey. Contribution -This paper aims to draw the attention to research gap and strengthens the call for more empirical and statistical research on the role, development as well as economic outcomes of health tourism in European Union, and especially Poland and Croatia.

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Trends and structural shifts in health tourism: Evidence from seasonal time-series data on health-related travel spending by Canada during 1970–2010

Cited by 29 publications

References 40 publications

Medical Tourism in a Socialized Health Care System—The Need for Strict Systemic Supervision

Medical Tourism in a Socialized Health Care System—The Need for Strict Systemic Supervision

A conceptual model of medical tourism service supply chain

Health Tourism Market in Poland and Croatia – Financial Effects and Potentials

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