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Welche Rolle spielt die Gesundheitspolitik?: Eine Analyse des Medizintourismus in Australien und Deutschland

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  • Locher Connie

    (School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Western Australia)

  • Pforr Christof

    (School of Marketing, Curtin University, Perth WA, 6845, Australia)

Abstract

Health tourism is a rather broad concept that spans from wellness tourism to medical tourism and destinations for that matter differ greatly in their specific health tourism characteristics from a supply but also a demand perspective. Focusing on medical tourism, it is proposed in this paper that these differences can, at least in parts, be explained by marked differences in a country’s health care system. Two very different health tourism destinations, Germany and Australia, are presented to support this argument.

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  • Locher Connie & Pforr Christof, 2015. "Welche Rolle spielt die Gesundheitspolitik?: Eine Analyse des Medizintourismus in Australien und Deutschland," Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft, De Gruyter, vol. 7(1), pages 19-34, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:touwis:v:7:y:2015:i:1:p:19-34:n:4
    DOI: 10.1515/tw-2015-0104
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