Medical Tourism is, at its most basic, the process of traveling outside of a patient’s home region for medical care. Usually it involves traveling internationally, but this is not required. Traditionally, medical tourism took place when individuals would travel from a lesser-developed country to receive treatment that was not available in their region.But in the recent past there has been a growing trend of people traveling from well-developed nations to other countries for medical procedures.
Medical treatment abroad, also called ‘medical tourism’, is a booming international industry where patients seek healthcare from sources outside their country. Usually every type of medical treatment is available abroad with over 50 countries identifying as destinations in medical tourism.
There are a number of reasons that an individual may medical travel for healthcare. The first reason, as stated above, is that they want or require a procedure that is not available or permitted where they live. This may be a safe, cutting edge procedure that has not been approved yet by the local medical governing body. For example, laparascopic banding (lap band surgery) was not approved by the FDA as a treatment until 2001 while Mexico had been performing the procedure since the 1990s.
Medical Tourism’the phenomenon of people travelling abroad to access medical treatment - has received increasing attention in academic and popular media. This paper reports findings from a study examining effect of inbound and outbound medical tourism on the UK NHS, by estimating volume of medical tourism and associated costs and benefits. A mixed methods study it includes analysis of the UK International Passenger Survey (IPS); interviews with 77 returning UK medical tourists, 63 policymakers, NHS managers and medical tourism industry actors policymakers, and a review of published literature. These informed costing of three types of treatments for which patients.
A third reason that someone might choose medical tourism is to gain access to healthcare more rapidly than in their home country. Many countries, particularly those with nationalized healthcare, can have substantial waiting times for non life-threatening procedures, sometimes up to and exceeding a year. Sometimes these conditions, while not life-threatening, can seriously degrade one’s quality of life.
Sometimes a procedure is available in your home region, but the best doctor in the world isn’t. For certain patients, having the procedure done by the best possible doctors available is the only acceptable option.
Medical treatment abroad, also called ‘medical tourism’, is a booming international industry where patients seek healthcare from sources outside their country. Usually every type of medical treatment is available abroad with over 50 countries identifying as destinations in medical tourism.
There are a number of reasons that an individual may medical travel for healthcare. The first reason, as stated above, is that they want or require a procedure that is not available or permitted where they live. This may be a safe, cutting edge procedure that has not been approved yet by the local medical governing body. For example, laparascopic banding (lap band surgery) was not approved by the FDA as a treatment until 2001 while Mexico had been performing the procedure since the 1990s.
Medical Tourism’the phenomenon of people travelling abroad to access medical treatment - has received increasing attention in academic and popular media. This paper reports findings from a study examining effect of inbound and outbound medical tourism on the UK NHS, by estimating volume of medical tourism and associated costs and benefits. A mixed methods study it includes analysis of the UK International Passenger Survey (IPS); interviews with 77 returning UK medical tourists, 63 policymakers, NHS managers and medical tourism industry actors policymakers, and a review of published literature. These informed costing of three types of treatments for which patients.
A third reason that someone might choose medical tourism is to gain access to healthcare more rapidly than in their home country. Many countries, particularly those with nationalized healthcare, can have substantial waiting times for non life-threatening procedures, sometimes up to and exceeding a year. Sometimes these conditions, while not life-threatening, can seriously degrade one’s quality of life.
Sometimes a procedure is available in your home region, but the best doctor in the world isn’t. For certain patients, having the procedure done by the best possible doctors available is the only acceptable option.
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