Qualitative Examination of Health Tourism and Its Challenges

qualitative examination of health tourism and its challenges

introduction: health tourism refers to travel for the use of services that improve or promote the physical or psychological health of an individual in a location apart from their place of residence lasting over 24 hours. health tourism provides a sizeable share of revenues derived from the health sector in some countries. the high potential for health tourism in iran, especially in the city of ...

Challenges for health and tourism in Jamaica.

Jamaica is an island nation located almost at the center of the Caribbean Sea, approximately 150 km south of Cuba and 160 km west of Haiti, its two nearest neighboring countries. It is the third largest island of the Caribbean and the largest of the English-speaking ones. Its surface area is 11,424 km2,1 and it has a population of approximately 2.7 million. It is dependent on tourism,which cont...

Cultural tourism: challenges and strategies

the study of practical and theoretical foundation of credit risk and its coverage

پس از بررسی هر کدام از فاکتورهای نوع صنعت, نوع ضمانت نامه, نرخ بهره , نرخ تورم, ریسک اعتباری کشورها, کارمزد, ریکاوری, gdp, پوشش و وثیقه بر ریسک اعتباری صندوق ضمانت صادرات ایران مشخص گردید که همه فاکتورها به استثنای ریسک اعتباری کشورها و کارمزد بقیه فاکتورها رابطه معناداری با ریسک اعتباری دارند در ضمن نرخ بهره , نرخ تورم, ریکاوری, و نوع صنعت و ریسک کشورها اثر عکس روی ریسک اعتباری داردو پوشش, وثی...

Outbound medical tourism from Mongolia: a qualitative examination of proposed domestic health system and policy responses to this trend

BACKGROUND Medical tourism is the practice of traveling across international boundaries in order to access medical care. Residents of low-to-middle income countries with strained or inadequate health systems have long traveled to other countries in order to access procedures not available in their home countries and to take advantage of higher quality care elsewhere. In Mongolia, for example, r...

Inbound medical tourism to Barbados: a qualitative examination of local lawyers’ prospective legal and regulatory concerns

BACKGROUND Enabled by globalizing processes such as trade liberalization, medical tourism is a practice that involves patients' intentional travel to privately obtain medical care in another country. Empirical legal research on this issue is limited and seldom based on the perspectives of destination countries receiving medical tourists. We consulted with diverse lawyers from across Barbados to...