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- 17 Decerato in Medical Travel | NO COMMENTS
What exactly is medical tourism
Inside a health clinic ©spheroVision/Flickr
The term medical tourism refers to the practice of traveling – within one’s home country or abroad – to receive different kinds of medical services and health tourism, medical travel and global healthcare are all concept going hand in hand with it.
People have more and more options worldwide to get a limitless number of medical services from cosmetic dermatology to heart surgery and vitro fertilization – actually, even alternative medicine and wellness travel are included into the medical tourism category. …
- 16 Decerato in Medical Travel | NO COMMENTS
Global wellness tourism in numbers
Family in jacuzzi ©hotel-arabella/Flickr
Wellness tourism has been a really big deal in the past few years and it was projected to be growing with approximately 10% annually in the next 5 years so it is definitely a segment of the travel industry that’s worth paying attention to.
So let’s see a bit more about the details and numbers of global wellness tourism industry and its development. This might also be of interest to anyone who is a fan of spas and full scale wellness treatments. …
- 13 Decerato in Medical Travel | NO COMMENTS
Latin America as a medical tourism destination
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This very interesting segment of the travel industry called medical tourism was created by high and rising health care costs in the United States. According to the organization called Patients Beyond Borders, medical travel is a circa $40 billion year business in a year…
A main – if not the biggest – destination for medical tourism is Latin America for more reasons and we are trying to shed a light on these specific reasons below. You have anything to add? Please let us know in the comment section. …
- 12 Decerato in Medical Travel | NO COMMENTS
Medical procedures easily done abroad
At the eye doctor ©** RCB **/Flickr
At this time the number of people traveling away from their homes for medical services is about half a million in a year. Some travel abroad for more difficult surgeries that they cannot easily afford at home, but others – the opportunistic medical tourists – merely seize the opportunity of some minor procedure while they are traveling anyway.
Here are some medical procedures that can easily be done abroad. If you put so much effort in planning a vacation, why not add some extra effort into planning to resolve some health care issue at the same time? …
- erato in Medical Travel | 2 COMMENTS
The future of medical tourism industry
A visit at the doctor now ©jpalinsad360/Flickr
In today’s developing world it is highly difficult to make accurate predictions about the future of one or another industry – medical tourism is not any different. And yet, there are certain signs and indicators that can give us some idea about what we can expect from this segment in the next decade.
Technological development, medical/ hospital costs and immigration reform are three strong and important indicators of what the future of medical tourism will bring. This will not be a very detailed and exhaustive description of the future but it will, hopefully give an idea of what will happen in the industry in the years coming. …
- 03 Octtylerd in Travel tips and tricks | NO COMMENTS
Top 5 travel health myths
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There’s nothing worse then a holiday spent fretting about germs, infections, viruses and the various toxic (or other) kinds of waste that you might unwittingly ingest while you’re in a foreign country whose health care system you don’t really know, and whose language you don’t speak.
It’s completely understandable to worry about such things (you do want to get home in one piece, naturally), but some of the health related issues that we worry about while traveling are actually not that horrible or life-threatening.
If you’re prone to excessive worrying about the well-being of your limbs and organs while you’re away on a trip, here are top 5 travel myths that you should know – and this way you’ll be able to worry about things that really matter. …
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