TY  - JOUR
T1  - THE GLOBAL HEALTH ISSUES AND MEDICAL TRAVEL: A REVIEW
AU  - Younis, Mustafa
AU  - O’lawrence, Henry
AU  - Martinez, Linda
PY  - 2019
DA  - September
Y2  - 2019
DO  - 10.31201/ijhmt.523635
JF  - International Journal of Health Management and Tourism
PB  - Dilaver TENGİLİMOĞLU
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2458-9608
SP  - 96
EP  - 110
VL  - 4
IS  - 2
LA  - en
AB  - The purpose of the study is to conduct anon-systematic literature review by way of reviewing articles that were foundin any of six databases under the terms “medical tourism” or “medical travel”since the year 2000 in order to document the major primary reason for medicaltourism and how some specific country’s health providers focus their healthservices offerings to meet these needs. . This study also identified majordangers in medical tourism and determined why cost, accessibility and qualityare the main motivating factors for medical travel. Although lack of data is amajor concern and the data available are mainly limited to literature from theperspective of a single country; and, data on medical travel outcomes are notsufficient or not generated using rigorous enough methods for statisticalanalysis. Therefore, this report documents primarily a range of treatmentsabroad that most commonly include dental care, cosmetic surgery, fertilitytreatment, elective surgery and other medical services.
KW  - Global Health
KW  - Medical Tourisim
KW  - Access to Healthcare
KW  - Hospital Vulnerabilities
KW  - Weaknesses
KW  - Threats
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.31201/ijhmt.523635
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/808726
ER  -