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Universal Health Database in India
Published in Ashish Mishra, G. Suseendran, Trung-Nghia Phung, Soft Computing Applications and Techniques in Healthcare, 2020
Arindam Chakrabarty, Uday Sankar Das
Today humans have the ability to achieve long-distance travel with the help of cheap air transport, thereby becoming the transport agent of microbes, infections and biota across the planet. This has also created a problem of invasive species and destruction of habitat of native species, promoting the rise of pandemic diseases without any check mechanism. The Asian countries have become the new hot spot for tourism for western travellers due to low cost of stay and transport. The world population has reached the highest ever recorded over the centuries, with most of the people living in urban, cohabited and often cramped spaces. The proximity of animals and humans living side by side has also been reduced to minimal, creating an environment for easy spread of infectious diseases, along with the changing temperature and weather. Humans' ability to become carrier agents for infectious diseases through travel is evidenced by the spread of HIV, drug-resistant tuberculosis, vector-borne diseases like chikungunya and dengue emerging in the poorer third-world countries. Another prominent reason for travel is medical treatment in locations where the cost of healthcare is comparatively lower. Countries like Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and India are some of the major medical tourism destinations; this has also attracted the attention of policy makers to look for linkages for possible spread of disease from one country to another [12].
Project management of migration in the industry of tourism
Published in Ford Lumban Gaol, Natalia Filimonova, Vladimir Maslennikov, Financial and Economic Tools Used in the World Hospitality Industry, 2018
M.L. Galas, A.Yu. Shirokikh, I.V. Gerasimova
A special type of tourism is reproductive tourism—a temporary stay in the recipient country for fertility or health-care reasons. Such intent to go abroad for treatment is a kind of medical tourism (Whittaker 2011). According to International Labor Organization (2010), “medical tourism is one of the core offerings in countries such as Colombia, Costa Rica, Estonia, Hungary, India, Jordan, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Poland, Thailand and Tunisia” (p. 40–41).
Domestic Medical Tourism for National Healthcare Systems
Published in Sourav Banerjee, Chinmay Chakraborty, Kousik Dasgupta, Green Computing and Predictive Analytics for Healthcare, 2020
In the present era, the definition of “health” is explained by the WHO (World Health Organization) “as a state of complete, physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. Health is a complete state of emotional and physical well-being. The importance of the healthcare system is to provide quality healthcare services to all people without any unfairness. In the current context, the concept of “medical tourism”, where patients travel globally to obtain the best medical care at a low cost, is highly in demand. In India, medical tourism is the fastest-growing sector, according to the reports of the Ministry of Health, stated that in 2017, 495,056 patients visited India to seek medical care. The reason behind the phenomenon of growing medical tourism in India is largely the infrastructural development, multi-specialty hospitals and investments that were made to boost medical tourism in India. Apart from these, a study conducted by Singh and Badaya (2014) proposed that in the healthcare system there is a huge gap between “need and feed” that can be seen in rural India. Lack of quality in healthcare services and poor medical infrastructure leads these rural people to travel from their hometowns toward the cities to get primary medical treatment. Domestic medical tourism is a modern concept where patients travel to cities to get the best medical treatment from city hospitals. The present chapter broadly discusses the neglected aspect of domestic medical tourism in rural India. Several past studies found that global health tourism has a huge impact on the economic benefits which are created by the overseas tourist (Bookman and Bookman, 2007). Similarly, studies mainly contribute in the areas on international medical tourism, whereas few studies have captured data on the area of domestic medical tourism, which is usually found in rural India as compared to urban areas. The main reason behind medical tourism in rural India is due to unsuitable medical facilities and poor health infrastructure. The present study mainly identifies: (a) the pain points of the domestic tourists, especially the patients from rural India who hope to access better medical facilities in city medical hospitals, and (b) it identifies the “medical tourist’s” expectations choosing urban hospitals as medical tourism destinations.
Reproductive vibes: therapeutic atmospheres and the reproductive force of tourism mobilities
Published in Mobilities, 2020
Although a destination for medical tourism, Costa Rica is not a travel stop for visitors looking for medically assisted reproductive technology services due to socio-legal processes and its cultural context of reproduction regulation. Until 2012, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) was illegal and continues to be contentious and relatively scarce (Valerio, Vargas, and Raventós 2017). It was not surprising, therefore, that the tourism mobilities of European and North American women I interviewed were not intended as a means of seeking cross-border reproductive care to resolve fertility problems. Tourism mobilities were instead enmeshed within the meanings and values that the women tourists imbued onto Costa Rica, an eco-destination marked by nature and ecological wonderment that is bound up with the possibilities for good health and ‘the good life.’ As I discuss below, this notion of Costa Rica as a country abundant with salubrious qualities and possibilities for international tourists did not come out of thin air.