medical tourism

medical tourism

English

Noun

medical tourism (uncountable)

1. (derogatory) Travelling across international borders, generally from a rich country to a poor country, to deliver healthcare, often on a temporary basis.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
2. Travelling across international borders to obtain health care.[7]
   • 2008 October, Mark Jenkins, “Need surgery? Call a travel agent”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, ISSN 1054-4836, page 152:

     In June 2007, the American Medical Association (AMA) provided a clear-eyed assessment of a growing phenomenon: medical tourism. […] Once relegated to facelifts and fat reduction, medical tourism has branched out into almost every kind of procedure, including bypass surgery, heart-valve replacement, angioplasty, knee reconstruction, and spinal fusion.

Synonyms

• health tourism

Translations

type of tourism

Arabic: سِيَاحَة عِلَاجِيَّة‎ f (siyāḥa ʿilājiyya) Chinese: Mandarin: 醫療旅遊／医疗旅游 (yīliáo lǚyóu) Finnish: terveysturismi French: tourisme médical (fr) m German: Medizintourismus m Japanese: 医療観光 (いりょうかんこう, iryō kankō), メディカル・ツーリズム (medikaru-tsūrizumu) Portuguese: turismo de saúde m, turismo médico m, viagens de saúde f pl, viagens médicas f pl, viagens para tratamento de saúde f pl Russian: медици́нский тури́зм (medicínskij turízm) Spanish: turismo de salud m, turismo médico m, turismo sanitario m

References

1. Shaywitz, D.A., & Ausiello, D.A. (2002). Global Health: A Chance for Western Physicians to Give - and Receive. The American Journal of Medicine, 113, 354-357.
2. Bezruchka, S. (2000). Medical Tourism as Medical Harm to the Third World: Why? For Whom? Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, 11, 77-78.
3. Roberts, M. (2006). Duffle Bag Medicine. Journal of the American Medical Association, 295, 1491-1492.
4. Pinto, A.D., & Upshur, R.E.G. (2009). Global Health Ethics for Students. Developing World Bioethics, 9, 1-10.
5. James, D. (1999). Going Global. The New Physician, 48, online. Accessed 7 May 2009.
6. Jim Baraldi. "A harm in 'medical tourism.' The poor need lasting efforts to improve global health, not feel-good field trips." The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 25, 2009.
7. Gahlinger, PM. The Medical Tourism Travel Guide: Your Complete Reference to Top-Quality, Low-Cost Dental, Cosmetic, Medical Care & Surgery Overseas. Sunrise River Press, 2008.