Download or read book The Medical Tourism Travel Guide written by Paul Gahlinger and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you could get top-notch medical care by highly skilled, U.S.-trained physicians in a world-class medical facility, all at a cost far less than treatment in the United States? It is called medical tourism, and hundreds of thousands of Americans each year are doing it. They go for dental treatment in Mexico, for hip replacement in Thailand, for heart surgery in India, and for cosmetic and weight loss surgery that costs as little as a tenth what they would pay in the United States. This is the first really authoritative book that will tell you almost everything you need to know - hundreds of clinics, hospitals, and spas in about 50 countries, how to travel, how to pay for it, how to prepare - what to do and what to avoid. Dr. Paul Gahlinger brings his experience as a physician, anthropologist, hospital director, and professor of public health and medicine to explain how it really works. Dr. Gahlinger has personally visited a great number of these hospitals, clinics, and doctors. You cannot always trust what you see on the Internet - but you can trust this book. While many medical tourism "referral services" take your money and send you to low-quality providers, this book shows you how to do it directly, with all addresses, phone and fax numbers, and everything you need to know to obtain superb health care at an affordable cost.
Download or read book Patients Beyond Borders written by Josef Woodman and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patients Beyond Borders is the first comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to medical tourism. Impartial and extensively researched, it is filled with authoritative and accessible advice - carefully culled from hundreds of resources around the world. Whether you're seeking dental work, heart surgery, orthopedics, cosmetic surgery, neurosurgery, or LASIK eye repair, Patients Beyond Borders is your best way to become an informed health traveler and get started on your medical travel journey.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Medical Tourism written by Patrick W. Marsek and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've heard you can save big bucks by heading overseas for major medical care-- but you don't want your concerns to get lost in translation. Learn to navigate the international health-care system and find the destination that works best for you.
Download or read book Medical Tourism Facilitator s Handbook written by Maria K. Todd and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to coordinating health travel logistics and gathering medical records, medical tourism facilitators play the role of travel agent, appointment setter, concierge, hotel reservationist, tour operator, and hand-holder to clients seeking health services domestically and abroad. Addressing the issues that are likely to emerge as clients travel, the Medical Tourism Facilitator's Handbook is a must-have resource of hard-to-find tools, checklists, terminology, and other helpful information for hospital-based, lay facilitators, travel agents, and even retired physicians and nurses. Supplying the advice of a recognized expert in global healthcare, the book provides a detailed and empathic understanding of patient needs and expectations. It covers the full range of best and worst case scenarios that can occur when clients travel to obtain health services. Using a conversational tone, it includes coverage of international travel logistics, where to find answers to immigration concerns, confidentiality/privacy issues, and unanticipated care in transit in the event of complications or missed connections. The book delivers a fast-moving presentation of useful information and teaches readers how to decode the language, what to look for in terms of safety and quality, how to decode hospital facilitator agent agreements, and how to anticipate clients’ needs and expectations. It also includes access to a regularly updated website with helpful worksheets and reference material so you will be prepared to handle any scenario that might present itself when your clients travel.
Download or read book Dr Prem s Guide Medical Tourism written by Dr Prem Jagyasi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The booming medical tourism industry has been of special attraction to global tour-ists, who are now opting for top class medical treatments across borders, along with spending a vacation. This enriched guidebook comes as a storehouse of valuable in-formation related to each and every aspect related to medical tourism. Not every country has the infrastructure and expertise to provide the best medical support for every ailment. People migrating to foreign lands seeking relief from their bodily sufferings is a method practiced since primitive days, and with gradual techno-logical advancements it has taken the shape of medical tourism today. The initial chapters of the book provide you a vivid understanding of the medical tour-ism concept and the plausible reasons that encourage the phenomenon. The vivid narration of associated wellness and health tourism and its different domains are no doubt added attractions forcing the reader to adopt a different thought process in availing medical support way ahead of the conventional ones. Certainly, the aim is to achieve better quality of life. The well constructed chapters provide step by step guidance alerting the reader of possible loopholes while considering medical tourism. A well crafted description of 68 medical tourism destinations highlighting their uniqueness in medical tourism is the most attractive part of this book helping the per-son in need to select the right destination as per his requirement and affordability.
Download or read book Patients Beyond Borders Korea Editiontm written by Josef Woodman and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Medical Travel Conference, Seoul, South Korea - 19 November 2008: Healthy Travel Media and the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) jointly announce the launch of Patients Beyond Borders: Korea Edition, published in English for international distribution. Supported by the Council for Korea Medicine Overseas Promotion (CKMP), the 220-page guidebook offers an in-depth overview of Korea's 23 international hospitals, selected health travel agents, guest accommodations, and essential travel information.
Download or read book CDC Yellow Book 2020 written by CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION. (CDC) and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive reference for travel medicine, updated for 2020! "A beloved travel must-have for the intrepid wanderer." -Publishers Weekly "A truly excellent and comprehensive resource." -Journal of Hospital Infection The CDC Yellow Book offers everything travelers and healthcare providers need to know for safe and healthy travel abroad. This 2020 edition includes: · Country-specific risk guidelines for yellow fever and malaria, including expert recommendations and 26 detailed, country-level maps · Detailed maps showing distribution of travel-related illnesses, including dengue, Japanese encephalitis, meningococcal meningitis, and schistosomiasis · Guidelines for self-treating common travel conditions, including altitude illness, jet lag, motion sickness, and travelers' diarrhea · Expert guidance on food and drink precautions to avoid illness, plus water-disinfection techniques for travel to remote destinations · Specialized guidelines for non-leisure travelers, study abroad, work-related travel, and travel to mass gatherings · Advice on medical tourism, complementary and integrative health approaches, and counterfeit drugs · Updated guidance for pre-travel consultations · Advice for obtaining healthcare abroad, including guidance on different types of travel insurance · Health insights around 15 popular tourist destinations and itineraries · Recommendations for traveling with infants and children · Advising travelers with specific needs, including those with chronic medical conditions or weakened immune systems, health care workers, humanitarian aid workers, long-term travelers and expatriates, and last-minute travelers · Considerations for newly arrived adoptees, immigrants, and refugees Long the most trusted book of its kind, the CDC Yellow Book is an essential resource in an ever-changing field -- and an ever-changing world.
Download or read book Patients Beyond Borders written by Josef Woodman and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patients Beyond Borders written by Josef Woodman and published by . This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citing the country's superior health-care infrastructure and accessibility from Europe, a guide for medical tourists to Turkey profiles American-accredited hospitals and specialists while providing detailed information for budgeting needs and local sites of interest. Original.
Download or read book Patients Beyond Borders Series written by Josef Woodman and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of the flagship Patients Beyond Borders Singapore Edition, published in July 2007, the second edition has now been released. This 250-page guidebook features a fully updated and revised in-depth overview of Singapore's hospitals and clinics serving international patients and now includes 16 pages of color inserts showcasing Singapore's world-class facilities and attractions. Considered one of the world, s top medical travel destinations, Singapore attracts more than 410,000 international patients to its hospitals and treatment centers and expects that number to grow to one million by 2012. The country boasts 13 JCI-accredited healthcare facilities, and its healthcare system was ranked the best in Asia and sixth best in the world by the World Health Organization (the US was ranked 36th). Singapore's 35 international clinics and hospitals offer nearly every imaginable medical procedure - at a 30 to 60 percent saving over U.S. prices. This complete guide contains detailed profiles of each of the country's hospitals and clinics serving international patients and includes extensive coverage of the acclaimed Centers of Excellence, specialties and super-specialties, patient liaison services, accommodation options, travel destinations, and more.
Download or read book How to Plan a Successful Medical Tourism Trip written by Ilene Little and published by Traveling4health, Incorporated. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Plan A Successful Medical Tourism Trip is the ONLY book with advice from 12 leading experts on medical & dental tourism!Learn how to get started, how to get the savings, quality and benefits of traveling, but still be safe. Author, Ilene Little takes you step-by-step through the process of researching, verifying and finally traveling abroad. This practical how-to-guide covers all the major issues, including insurance, international law, international healthcare business transactions, case management, travel insurance, complications insurance, provider selection, financing procedures, and safety and security."Rather than a typical book, this is more like having a conversation with some of the leading individuals in the medical tourism field. The interactivity with links to current websites and the availability of email addresses and contact information for many of those quoted in this book should be of great help to an individual who wants to learn the essentials in planning a medical tourism trip. The option of traveling for medical care is such a new idea to most Americans that this book's focus on medical facilitators, insurance issues, and accommodation considerations will prove a great starting point in what can seem to be an overwhelming process of planning the details of such a trip. Ilene Little is to be commended for providing such help and for her even-handed assessment of when medical travel is or isn't advisable. The bottom line - this book should provide much peace of mind to the prospective medical traveler." - Dan Cormany, Florida International UniversityFaculty Member at the School of Hospitality Management and Tourism
Download or read book The Medical Tourism Facilitator written by Renée-Marie Stephano and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Medical Tourist written by David Hancock and published by Blake Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical tourism is one of the fastest-growing businesses on earth. With theising price of treatment in the UK and long waiting lists, there's nevereen a better time to combine a trip abroad with a treatment. Plus many otherountries have not been affected by the deadly MRSA bug in the same way thathe UK has - another reason why going outside the UK is an attractive option.ospitals overseas are clean, well-staffed and the food is great. What moreould you ask for? Nothing - except the guide to know where to go - and heret is. The first section of the book deals with the different types ofedical procedures and at the end of each is a cross-reference to countriesisted in part two. There are 24 countries you can visit which will give youhe help you need at a price that can't be matched in the UK.
Download or read book Patients Beyond Borders Thailand Edition written by Josef Woodman and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patients Beyond Borders Thailand Edition is the first comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to medical tourism in Thailand, written by the world's leading spokesperson for international health travel. Produced in collaboration with the Tourism Authority of Thailand and supported by hospitals and related government and private organizations, this guide is impartial, extensively researched, and filled with authoritative and accessible advice carefully culled from hundreds of resources in the U.S. and abroad. With 32 pages of color photos and an in-depth overview of Thailand's international hospitals, selected health travel agents, nearby recovery and guest accommodations, and area travel information, Patients Beyond Borders Thailand Edition is the definitive resource for medical travel to Thailand.
Download or read book Medical Tourism written by Stephanie Watson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From exotic spa treatments to euthanasia, this book examines the background and social context of medical tourism—the practice of traveling for health care. This work also documents how this industry is reshaping the face of medicine worldwide for individuals, local communities, and national health care systems. Medical Tourism: A Reference Handbook provides an accessible overview of the state of medical tourism, written from a balanced, unbiased perspective. The authors provide relevant social context for this controversial topic, discussing the state of extremely limited research data on medical tourism; the ethical issues involved, such as traveling to have a black-market organ transplanted; and the significant impact of medical tourism on health care systems—that of the United States, and those of the destination countries. The book highlights many contemporary problems, controversies, and implications of medical tourism both for individuals and health care systems, and presents thought-provoking potential solutions. The topic of medical tourism is also addressed against the backdrop of current healthcare reforms in the United States. Readers can reference a wealth of additional material on medical tourism, ranging from original documents to extensive directories of selected organizations and resources.
Download or read book CDC Yellow Book 2018 Health Information for International Travel written by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ESSENTIAL WORK IN TRAVEL MEDICINE -- NOW COMPLETELY UPDATED FOR 2018 As unprecedented numbers of travelers cross international borders each day, the need for up-to-date, practical information about the health challenges posed by travel has never been greater. For both international travelers and the health professionals who care for them, the CDC Yellow Book 2018: Health Information for International Travel is the definitive guide to staying safe and healthy anywhere in the world. The fully revised and updated 2018 edition codifies the U.S. government's most current health guidelines and information for international travelers, including pretravel vaccine recommendations, destination-specific health advice, and easy-to-reference maps, tables, and charts. The 2018 Yellow Book also addresses the needs of specific types of travelers, with dedicated sections on: · Precautions for pregnant travelers, immunocompromised travelers, and travelers with disabilities · Special considerations for newly arrived adoptees, immigrants, and refugees · Practical tips for last-minute or resource-limited travelers · Advice for air crews, humanitarian workers, missionaries, and others who provide care and support overseas Authored by a team of the world's most esteemed travel medicine experts, the Yellow Book is an essential resource for travelers -- and the clinicians overseeing their care -- at home and abroad.
Download or read book Health Tourism written by David A. Reisman and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique and pathbreaking book, David Reisman examines the relatively new phenomenon of health travel. He presents a multidisciplinary account of the way in which lower costs, shorter waiting times, different services, and the chance to combine recreational tourism with a check-up or an operation all come together to make medical travel a new industry with the potential to create jobs and wealth, while at the same time giving sick people high-quality care at an affordable price. The book illustrates that it is no longer the case that medical attention must be consumed at home. Patients are travelling to Mexico, India and Thailand for a heart bypass. They are going to Hungary, Poland and Malaysia for dentistry. Doctors are migrating to Britain, the USA and Canada for new challenges. Hospitals are opening subsidiaries in Dubai, the Philippines and Costa Rica to see overseas patients on the spot. Integrating academic perspectives from medicine, tourism, health economics, development studies and public policy, the author concludes that the benefits both to the importing and the exporting nations are considerable, but that there are also some costs. He suggests that the new industry should be regulated and supported in order that it can do its best both for the local population and for the sick people who travel abroad for treatment. This fascinating and highly original book will be of great interest to academics and researchers in areas such as health economics, tourism, social policy, development studies, Asian studies and public policy. It will also prove invaluable to practitioners actively involved in planning and delivering medical attention in the global economic order.
