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Medical tourism and domestic population health

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  • Giuseppe Tattara

    () (Department of Economics, University Of Venice Cà Foscari)

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Medical tourism is a term to describe the rapidly-growing practice of traveling across international borders to obtain health care. Services typically sought by travelers include elective procedures as well as complex specialized surgeries. Over 50 countries have identified medical tourism as a national industry. This article deals with the situation of India that is promoting the "high-tech healing" of its private healthcare sector as a tourist attraction. The government hopes to encourage a building trade in medical tourism, selling foreigners the idea of travelling to India for low-cost but world-class medical treatment and India is becoming a "global health destination". This policy however does not develops into better services for the local population as corporale hospitals are clustered in urban settings, their prices are out of reach to the locals and the quota of beds reserved free of charge to the domestic population is often disregarded.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, University of Venice "Ca' Foscari" in its series Working Papers with number 2010_02.

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Length: 18
Date of creation: 2010
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Handle: RePEc:ven:wpaper:2010_02

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Keywords: Medical tourism; Corporale hospitals; Life expectacy; Economic development; Inequality;

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