Industry Overview/Trends Generic Keywords: (What are these?) Knowledge Source, Healthcare Market, BusIntell, Reports, Medical, Information, HMO, Pharmacare, Diagnostic Publication Date: 19-MAR-08 Pages: 10 Format: PDF Price: $45.00 Delivery: Immediate Online Access
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Description Medical tourism, also known as global healthcare, combines surgery or other medical procedures with travel and/or sightseeing in a foreign country. Medical tourism is rapidly becoming a current phenomenon for cosmetic surgery and for complicated general surgery and dental procedures. Patients are increasingly willing to travel overseas to destinations such as India and Thailand for cost savings on many different types of medical procedures. According to Tourism Research and Marketing, patients made over 19 million trips valued at $20 billion in 2005, and the industry may double by 2010. Spurred on by the needs of Baby Boomers and more than 60 million uninsured and underinsured Americans, the medical tourism industry in the United States is expanding rapidly. Scroll to this section This is a section of the Full Report:
Medical Tourism Market Overview Publication Date: 19-MAR-08 Pages: 65 Format: PDF Price: $150.00 Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Medical tourism (also called medical travel, health tourism or global healthcare) was initially defined by travel agencies and the mass media to describe the rapidly-growing practice of traveling across international borders to obtain health care. Medical tourism is rapidly becoming a current phenomenon for cosmetic surgery and for complicated general surgery and dental procedures. Medical tourists are increasingly willing to travel overseas to destinations such as India and Thailand for cost savings on many different types of medical procedures. Spurred on by the needs of Baby Boomers and more than 60 million uninsured and underinsured Americans, the medical tourism industry in the United States is expanding rapidly.

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Industry Overview - pgs. 4-13 BridgeHealth International - pgs. 15-16 IndUShealth, Inc. - pgs. 17-19 Med Journeys - pgs. 20-28 Med Retreat - pgs. 29-35 PlanetHospital - pgs. 36-39 Overseas Hospitals Accredited by JCI - pgs. 40-59 Efficiency of Health System Performance in WHO Member States - pgs. 60-64 Sources - pg. 65

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