Medical Tourism. Why do people travel for specific medical treatments?

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Sociology - Medicine and Health, grade: 1,7, Bielefeld University (Fakultät für Soziologie), course: Medical Sociology, language: English, abstract: This seminar paper concentrates on the topic of medical tourism. What is medical tourism? Since when does it exist? What kinds of medical tourism are the most famous ones? What kind of impact does it have on the quality of medical treatments or a state's economy? Those questions will be answered in this seminar paper. In the first part, I will concentrate on the definition on medical tourism. Later, I will focus on different kinds of medical tourism regarding to the definition, for example surrogate parenthood, plastic surgery, and abortion. Afterwards, I will name negative and positive impacts of medical tourism in a short summary.

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Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Sociology - Medical Care, grade: 1,7, Bielefeld University (Fakultät für Soziologie), course: Medical Sociology, language: English, abstract: This seminar paper concentrates on the topic of medical tourism. What is medical tourism? Since when does it exist? What kinds of medical tourism are the most famous ones? What kind of impact does it have on the quality of medical treatments or a state's economy? Those questions will be answered in this seminar paper. In the first part, I will concentrate on the definition on medical tourism. Later, I will focus on different kinds of medical tourism regarding to the definition, for example surrogate parenthood, plastic surgery, and abortion. Afterwards, I will name negative and positive impacts of medical tourism in a short summary.