Medical tourism is often referred to as the act of leaving one's country to go to a country other than the home country for specific and enhanced medical care and recuperation (1). It represents the less costly private medical care for patients, mostly from developed countries that need serious surgical operations (2). Besides, many patients from less developed countries also visiting various E...

In comprehensive urban development plan, a vision of Tehran has been considered as a world city.Tehran is also considered the regional medical center in the world of Islam in the comprehensive scientific map ofIran. In the era of globalization, medical tourism is a growing market in developing countries and has become one offields of competition in regional development. According to the importa...

Health-related travel, also referred to as "medical tourism" is historically well-known. Its emerging contemporary form suggests the development of a form of globalised for-profit healthcare. Medical tourism to India, the focus of a recent conference in Canada, provides an example of the globalisation of healthcare. By positioning itself as a low-cost, high-tech, fast-access and high-quality he...

in this commentary, we establish a relationship between medical sociology and the study of medical tourism and cross-border healthcare by introducing ronald andersen’s behavioral model of healthcare use, and linking this model to the recent empirical study of kovacs et al. on patients travelling to hungary for orthopedic treatment. finally, we plead for more measurement in the field of patient ...

Copyright © 2014 Massachusetts Medical Society. There is a global crisis of severe shortages and marked maldistribution of health professionals that is exacerbated by three great global transitions — demographic changes, epidemiologic shifts, and redistribution of the disability burden. Each of these transitions exerts a powerful force for change in health care systems, the roles of health prof...

It is well known that Canadians participate in the medical tourism industry as patients, investors, and business people, but there is very little research examining the magnitude of the issue.1 In a previous issue of Canadian Family Physician (CFP), Crooks and Snyder provided a practical overview of the pitfalls of medical tourism for Canadian family physicians and their patients.2 It has been ...