What is it about?
Health tourism refers to people seeking medical care in a country other than their own. The key goal of medical tourism is to provide ‘cost-effective' private medical services for patients who need surgical and other types of specialized treatment in cooperation with the tourism industry. Several international and domestic tourists prefer Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa and Gujarat for medical services and tourism. The nature and importance of medical tourism in India are discussed in this paper. It also demonstrates the difficulties that health travelers in India face.
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Why is it important?
The key goal of medical tourism is to provide ‘cost-effective' private medical services for patients who need surgical and other types of specialized treatment in cooperation with the tourism industry.
Perspectives
I hope this article makes what people might think is a boring, slightly abstract area like health economics and measuring things like health, kind of interesting and maybe even exciting. Because the way we spend money on health and social care is not just a problem for politicians, managers and researchers to worry about - it is an issue that touches every single human being on this planet in one way or another. More than anything else, and if nothing else, I hope you find this article thought-provoking.
Dr Gobinath R
SR University, Warangal
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This page is a summary of: Aspects of medical tourism in India: A review, January 2022, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0093282.
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