Medical Tourism in Developing Countries

✍ Scribed by Milica Z. Bookman, Karla R. Bookman

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 258
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Western patients are increasingly traveling to developing countries for health care and developing countries are increasingly offering their skills and facilities to paying foreign customers. This international trade in medical services has huge economic potential for developing countries and serious implications for health care across the globe. The potential is explored in this book through analysis of the market for medical tourism and identification of its link to economic growth. The authors propose that medical tourism is not a universally feasible growth strategy. Instead, it is successful only in countries with economic and political advantages that enable them to navigate around international and domestic obstacles to trade in medical services. It is also suggested that a successful medical tourism industry, when coupled with cooperation between the private and public sectors, may lead to public health improvements in developing countries.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 10
List of Acronyms......Page 11
1 Introduction to Medical Tourism......Page 14
2 Plastic Surgery is Not Peanuts: Economic Growth and Dependency......Page 34
3 Offshore Doctors: The Demand for Medical Tourism......Page 54
4 Would You Like a Safari With Your Lasik Surgery? The Supply of Medical Tourism......Page 78
5 Promoting Medical Tourism: The Advantages......Page 108
6 Promoting Medical Tourism: The Obstacles......Page 152
7 Inequalities in Health Care and the Role of Macroeconomic Policy......Page 182
Notes......Page 200
Selected Bibliography......Page 236
B......Page 244
C......Page 245
D......Page 246
E......Page 247
H......Page 248
I......Page 249
L......Page 251
M......Page 252
P......Page 253
S......Page 255
T......Page 256
W......Page 257