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Health Tourism : Social Welfare through International Trade, PDF eBook

Health Tourism : Social Welfare through International Trade PDF

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In this unique and pathbreaking book, David Reisman examines the relatively new phenomenon of health travel.

He presents a multidisciplinary account of the way in which lower costs, shorter waiting times, different services, and the chance to combine recreational tourism with a check-up or an operation all come together to make medical travel a new industry with the potential to create jobs and wealth, while at the same time giving sick people high-quality care at an affordable price.

The book illustrates that it is no longer the case that medical attention must be consumed at home.

Patients are travelling to Mexico, India and Thailand for a heart bypass.

They are going to Hungary, Poland and Malaysia for dentistry.

Doctors are migrating to Britain, the USA and Canada for new challenges.

Hospitals are opening subsidiaries in Dubai, the Philippines and Costa Rica to see overseas patients on the spot.

Integrating academic perspectives from medicine, tourism, health economics, development studies and public policy, the author concludes that the benefits both to the importing and the exporting nations are considerable, but that there are also some costs.

He suggests that the new industry should be regulated and supported in order that it can do its best both for the local population and for the sick people who travel abroad for treatment.

This fascinating and highly original book will be of great interest to academics and researchers in areas such as health economics, tourism, social policy, development studies, Asian studies and public policy.

It will also prove invaluable to practitioners actively involved in planning and delivering medical attention in the global economic order.

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