Epidemiology and Public Health

Medical Tourism

Medical tourism is a combination of healthcare and tourism. Medical tourism is growing day by day internationally as well as domestically.  People travel to foreign regions to get a medical treatment. Due to this medical tourism is facing many problems and challenges, which are technological, language barriers etc.

Problems will be created for host country and destination population.  There are many advantages of medical tourism as well as drawbacks. This  is an emerging concept for the travel and tourism industry.

In ancient days people used to travel from one country to another, one destination to another for medical treatment like a hot spring bath, medical therapies.  But the current time has changed, now people travel due to many reasons like as to get affordable best medical treatment in the developing country,

Additionally, transplant tourism has become a highly controversial issue. Medical visitors obtain organs and transplant operations without waiting and for less money. But the World Health Organization says the organs often come from vulnerable people.