Medicinsk turisme stortrives, og det har konsekvenser for patienter og sygehusvaesener verden over
Engelsk titel: Medical tourism and its implications for patients and hospital services throughout the world
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Författare:
Sorgenfri Hansen, Kristine
Email: krsh@sund.ku.dk
Språk: Dan
Antal referenser: 30
Dokumenttyp:
Översikt
UI-nummer: 17060020
Sammanfattning
This article provides a snapshot of global medical tourism and its positive and negative implications for healthcare around the world presented through selected examples. Medical tourism is an old phenomenon which has seen a rapid increase due to global technological advances thus enabling people to receive treatment anywhere in the world, often combined with a tropical vacation. Treatments are of a non-acute, voluntary nature and are driven largely by high prices and long waiting lists at the home countries and low prices and high service quality at the destination country.