Selected Bibliography for Medical Tourism

(The Most Comprehensive Bibliography on the subject on the web)

(Last update 22 Mar 2010, n=212 references and counting!)

Please note the attempt to post references that have free and easy access from Internet sources. Numerous studies are found in print material. Please email us at recgeog (at) gmail.com with web accessible documents and studies! Abhiyan, J. (2006). Globalisation and Health. Towards the National health Assembly II. Retrieved 22 Mar 09 from http://www.esocialsciences.com/data/articles/Document12512007440.470791.pdf Altman, S., D. Shactman, and E. Eliat. (2006). Could US Hospitals Go the Way of US Airlines? Health Affairs. 25(1):11-21. Retrieved 23 Mar 09 from http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/1/11. American Medical Association. (2008). New AMA Guidelines on Medical Tourism. Retrieved 11 May 2009 from http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2008/07/07/prse0707.htm Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Wisconsin. (2008). Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Introduces International Medical Tourism Pilot Program. Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week,466. Retrieved January 13, 2009, from ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source database. (Document ID: 1597943281). Association Resource Centre, Inc. (2006). Spa, Health & Wellness Sector: foreign competitor profiles. Retrieved 2 Jan 2009 from http://www.corporate.canada.travel/docs/research_and_statistics/ product_knowledge/Spa_Health_Wellness_Sector_Foreign_Competitor_Profile_eng.pdf Alsever, J. (2006). Basking on the Beach, or maybe on the Operating Table. October 15, 2006. Retrieved 30 July 2007 from NYTimes.com Associated Press. (2007). Issues Poll. Retrieved 8 April 2008 from http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-12-28-issuespoll_N.htm ABC News/Washington Post Poll. (2008). ABC News/Washington Post Poll. Retrieved 6 May 2008 from http://www.pollingreport.com/prioriti.htm Bagchi, S. (2008). Growth generates health care challenges in booming India. Canadian Medical Association. Journal, 178(8), 981-3. Retrieved January 13, 2009, from ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source database. (Document ID: 1455696691). Bakic, O. and Hrabovski-Tomic, E. (2008). Informal Education for Management in Health Tourism. Tourism and Hospitability Management. 14(1):1-12. (Retrieved 7 Jan 09 from http://www.fthm.hr/files/vol._14_no._1.pdf#page=10).

Baldoria, F. and Osana, J. (2007). Medical Tourism: A Booming Industry. Philippine Daily Inquirer. Business Friday Section (Lexis Nexis). Barmeyer, J. (2007). The Next Generation of Vacations Medical Tourism. Insight Business. Retrieved 30 January 2009 from http://www.usc.edu/org/InsightBusiness/SP07articles/medical.html Barron, N. (2008). Seeking Beauty, Cutting costs: Why so many Americans go under the knife abroad. Master of Art Thesis at University of Southern California. Retrieved 20 Mar 09 from http://digarc.usc.edu/assetserver/controller/item/etd-Barron-20080415.pdf. Begde, P. (2008). Opportunity and challenges for Medical tourism in India. Presented at the Conference on Tourism in India-Challenges Ahead. Retrieved 20 Jan 09 from http://dspace.iimk.ac.in/handle/2259/576. Bennett, T. (2009) 'Medical Tourism: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?', Intensive workshop on health systems in transition, University of Malaya, 29-30 April. Retrieved 1 Feb 10 from http://cpds.fep.um.edu.my/events/2009/workshop/29042009/PPT%20&%20full%20paper/session%204 /MedTourismKLAp2009%5B1%5D-TRUDE%20BENNETTE.pdf Bennett, M, B. King, L. Milner. The Health resort sector in Australia: A positioning study. Journal of Vacation Marketing. Retrieved 15 May 2009 from http://jvm.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/10/2/122 Bezruchka, S. (2000). Medical Tourism as medical harm in the third world: why, For Whom? Wilderness Environmental Medicine. 11:77-78. Retrieved 25 Oct 09 from Bhangale, V. (2008). Medical Tourism: Taking a big way in India. Presented at the Conference on Tourism in India-Challenges Ahead. Retrieved 20 Jan 09 from http://dspace.iimk.ac.in/bitstream/2259/578/1/365-368+Prof.Vijay+Bhangale.pdf Bhattacharya, M. (2008). Advantage Gujarat in Medical Tourism. Presented at the Conference on Tourism in India- Challenges Ahead. Retrieved 20 Jan 09 from http://dspace.iimk.ac.in/bitstream/2259/581/1/405-417+Mousumi.pdf. Bies, W. and L. Zacharia. (2007). Medical Tourism: Outsourcing surgery. Mathematical and Computer Modelling. 46:1144-1159. Bishop, R. and J. Litch. (2000). Medical Tourism can do harm (Personal View). BMJ. 8 April 2000. 320:1017 Blouin, C. (2007). Trade policy and health: from conflicting interests to policy coherence. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 85:169-73. Blyth, E. and A. Farrand. (2005). Reproductive tourism a price worth paying for reproductive autonomy? Critical Social Policy, Vol 25(10):91-114.

Bookman, M. Z., and Bookman, K. R. (2007). Medical Tourism in Developing Countries. New York: Palgrave. Borman, E. (2004). Health Tourism: Where healthcare, ethics, and the state collide. BMJ. 10 January 2004. 328:60-1. Budiani-saberi, D. and F. Delmonico. (2008) American Journal of Transplantation. 8(5)925-929. Retrieved 15 Feb 10 from http://cofs.org/COFS-Publications/Budiani_and_DelmonicoAJT_April_2008.pdf Burkhart, L. and Gentry, L. (2008). Medical Tourism: What you should know. The Saturday Evening Post Jan/Feb 2008, 280:1, p 52-53, 90, 92, 94. Brenzel, L. and E. Le Franc (2007). Opportunities and Challenges for expanding trade in health services in the English-speaking Caribbean. World Bank. Retrieved 25 Oct 09 from http://www.eldis.org/go/topics/resource-guides/healthsystems&id=38012&type=Document&em=240608&sub=hsys Bristow, R. (2008). Medical Tourism Survey Homepage. Retrieved 19 December 2008 from http://www.wsc.ma.edu/medicaltourism/ Bristow, R. (2008). Eco-medical tourism in Costa Rica: is it sustainable? 14th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Burlington, VT, USA, June 2008. Abstract available at http://www.issrm2008.org/abstractdisp_popup.php?useprikey=Y&prikey=13&id=224 Bristow, R. (2009). Eco-medical tourism: can it be sustainable? In: Klenosky, David B.; Fisher, Cherie LeBlanc, eds. Proceedings of the 2008 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium; 2008 March 30 April 1; Bolton Landing, NY. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-42. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 158-164. Retrieved 11 May 09 from http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/14669 Bristow, R., Yang, W. and Lu, M. (2009). Mineral spas to cosmetic surgery: is health tourism sustainable? 15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Vienna, Austria July 2009. Brown, S. (2008). Medical tourism: nations vie for health dollars. Hospitals & health Networks (Dec 2008). 82(12):49. Bryant, R. (2002). Despite Turbulent times, Dead Sea draws medical tourism. Dermatology Times, 23(2):8. Buccilli, E., and R. Stefanacci. (2008) Travel Assistance and Medical Tourism. Assisted Living Consult. March/April 2008. Retrieved 20 Mar 09 from http://www.assistedlivingconsult.com/issues/04-02/alc34Travel-331.pdf Burkett, L. (2007). Medical Tourism: Concerns, Benefits, and the American Legal Perspective. Journal of legal Medicine. 28(2):223-245.

Caballero-Danell, S. and C. Mugomba. (2007). Medical Tourism and its Entrepreneurial Opportunities a conceptual framework for entry into the industry. Master Thesis Goteborg University. Retrieved 22 Mar 09 from http://hdl.handle.net/2077/4671. Canadian Tourism Commission. (2006). Identifying the Spa Traveler: A Look at US and Canadian Consumer Attitudes and Motivators for Spa Vacations. Retrieved 2 Jan 2009 from http://www.corporate.canada.travel/docs/research_and_statistics/product_knowledge/Identifying_the _Spa_Traveler_2006.pdf Carabello, L. (2008). Tourism Primer for US Physicians. Medical Practice Management. March/April 2008. Retrieved 12 Jan 09 from http://www.medicaltraveltoday.com/MTTE08/Mar_Apr_2008_291-294.pdf Carrera, P. (2006). Medical tourism. Health Affairs 25(5):1453. Casabona Martinez, I., et al. (2005). El nuevo fenmeno europeo del turismo de salud : estado de la cuestin. Cultura de los cuidados. Ao IX, n 18, 2. semestre 2005, pp. 38-44. Retrieved 23 Mar 09 from http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/993 Castonguay, G. and A. Brown. (1993). Plastic Surgery Tourism proving a boon for Costa Ricas surgeons. Canadian Medical Association Journal 148(1): 74-76. Chambers, D. and B. McIntosh. (2008). Using Authenticity to Achieve Competitive in Medical Tourism in the English-speaking Caribbean. Third World Quarterly. 29(5):919-937. Chaynee, W. (2003). Health Tourism to Drive Earnings. Mierscope (The Malaysian Institute of Economic Research). Retrieved 7 Feb 09 from http://www.mier.org.my/mierscan/archives/pdf/chaynee19_4_2003.pdf Chakravarthy, K., Ravi Kumar, C.H., and Deepthi, K. (2008). SWOT Analysis on Medical Tourism (presented at the Conference on Tourism in India-Challenges Ahead. Retrieved 20 Jan 09 from http://dspace.iimk.ac.in/bitstream/2259/577/1/357-364+Kalyan.pdf Chee, H. (2007). Medical Tourism in Malaysia: International Movement of Healthcare Consumers and the Commodification of Healthcare (January 1, 2007). Asia Research Institute Working Paper No. 83. Retrieved 28 Dec 2008 from http://ssrn.com/abstract=1317163 Chen, J. (2007). Wellness Tourism: Measuring Consumers Quality of Life. In Chen et al editors. Proceedings of the First Hospitality and Leisure: Business Advances and Applied Research Conference. Lausanne, Switzerland. July 2007. Retrieved 27 Jan 2010 from http://www.ehl.edu/fre/content/download/4384/37498/file/Proceedings.pdf#page=38 Cherukara, J. and J. Manalel. (2008). Medical Tourism in Kerala-Challenges and Scope. Presented at the Conference on Tourism in India- Challenges Ahead. Retrieved 20 Jan 09 from http://dspace.iimk.ac.in/bitstream/2259/579/1/369-379+Joseph+Cherukara.pdf

Cheung, I., and Wilson, A. (2007). Arthroplasty tourism. Medical Journal of Australia, 187(11/12), 666-7. Retrieved January 13, 2009, from ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source database. (Document ID: 1404758621). Chinai, R. and R. Goswami. (2007). Medical Visas mark growth of Indian medical tourism. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. March 85(3):164-5. Retrieved 20 Mar 09 from http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?pid=S0042-96862007000300004&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en Chong, Su-Lin. (2001) Health Tourism: New Concepts and Fresh Perspectives. In Papers Presented at the National Conference on Tourism: Profiling Malaysian Tourism in the New Era, pp. 1-11. Kuala Lumpur: Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute Cohen, E. (2008). Medical Tourism in Thailand. AU-GSB e-Journal, an on-line scholarly publication issued twice a year by the Graduate School of Business, Assumption University of Thailand. Retrieved 20 Mar 09 from http://gsbejournal.au.edu/e-Journal/Journal/Medical%20Tourism%20Dr%20Cohen.pdf. Connell, J. (2006). Medical tourism: Sea Sun Sand and surgery. Tourism Management 27(6):10931100. Cook, P. (2008). What is health and Medical Tourism? Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association 2008. Retrieved 20 Mar 09 from http://www.tasa.org.au/conferencepapers08/Leisure,%20Tourism,%20Travel%20and%20Sport/Cook,% 20Peta,%20Session%2038%20PDF.pdf Cortez, N. (2008) 'Patients without borders: The emerging global market for patients and the evolution of modern health care', Indiana Law Journal, 83, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 00-24. Retrieved 1 Feb 10 from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=982742 Deloitte. (2008). Medical Tourism: 2008 Survey of Health Care Consumers. Retrieved 15 Nov 08 from http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/article/0%2C1002%2Ccid%25253D192707%2C00.html Deloitte. (2009). Medical Tourism: Update and implications. Retrieved 25 Oct 09 from http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_US/us/Industries/Health-Plans-Healthcare-Health-Care/Center-forHealth-Solutions-Health-Plans/article/55d9f278c9184210VgnVCM200000bb42f00aRCRD.htm Development Research News (2005). The future looks bright for health tourism. Philippine Instituted for Development Studies. 23(5-b). Retrieved 20 Mar 09 from http://publication.pids.gov.ph/details.phtml?pid=3770. Didaskalou, E. P. Nastos, A. Matzarakis. (2004). The Development Prospects for Greek Health Tourism and the Role of the Bioclimatic Regime in Greece. In Matzarakis, A., de Freitas, C. and Scott, D. Advances in Tourism Climatology. Freiburg. Pp 149-57. Retrieved 27 Jan 2010 from http://www.mif.unifreiburg.de/ISB/ws2/report/didaskalou.pdf

Dunn, P. (2007). Medical Tourism Takes Flight. Hospitals & Health Networks, 10688838, Nov 2007, 81(11). Dunn, P. (2007). An American in Bangkok. Hospitals & Health Networks 81(11):43. Dyer, C. (2003). Swiss parliament may try to ban suicide tourism. BMJ. 1 Feb 2003. 326:242. English, V., Gardner, J., Romano-Critchley, G. and Sommerville, A. (2001). Ethics Briefings. Journal of Medical Ethics 27:284-285. Ernst, D. (2006). Medical Tourism: why Americans take medical vacations abroad. Pacific Research Institute 4(9). Retrieved 28 December 2008 from http://liberty.pacificresearch.org/docLib/20070223_hppv4n9_0906.pdf Economist. (2007). Sun, Sand and Scalpels. Economist. 3/10/2007. 382:8519, p62. Eggertson, L. (2006). Wait-list weary Canadians seek treatment abroad. CMAJ April 25, 2006. Retrieved 10 Aug 2009 from http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/174/9/1247 Einhorn, b. (2008). Outsourcing the Patients. Business Week. Retrieved 18 July 2009 from http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_12/b4076036777780.htm?chan=rss_topStories_ ssi_5 English, V., J. Gardner, Romano-Critchley, G. and Sommerville, A. (2001). Ethics Briefings. Journal of Medical Ethics 27:284-285. eTurbonews. (2008). Top 5 Medical Tourism Destinations. Retrieved 12 December 2008 from http://www.eturbonews.com/1952/top-5-medical-tourism-destinations Forgoione, D and Smith, P. (2007). Medical Tourism and Its Impact on the US Health Care System. Journal of Health Care Finance; Fall2007, 34(1):27-35. Frellick, M. (2008). Medical Tourism: Patients jet to foreign locales for surgical procedures and return home for follow-up care. Retrieved 21 December 2008 from http://include.nurse.com/article/20081117/NATIONAL01/111170075/-1/frontpage Galland, Z. (2008). Medical Tourism: The Insurance Debate. Business Week. Retrieved 12 December 2008 from http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/nov2008/gb2008119_571910.htm?chan=globalbiz_s pecial+report+--+asia+medical+tourism_special+report+-+asia+medical+tourism Garraway, J. (2007). Commentary: the greater Caribbean this week: A novel tourism concept. Caribbean NetNews. Retrieved 18 July 2009 from http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-3085--6-6--.html Garza, A. M. Stanich, K. Southisombath. (nd) Californians who access health care services in another country. University of California, San Francisco, Fresno. Health and Policy Research Unit. Retrieved 26 Oct 09 from http://www.fresno.ucsf.edu/latinocenter/research/californiahealthcare.pdf/

Garza, A, A. Rodriguez-Lainz, and I. Ornelas. (2204). The Health of the California Region Bordering Mexico. Journal of Immigrant Health. 6(3) 137-144. Geisel, R. W. (2008). Successful medical tourism rests primarily on design. Business Insurance, 42(10):18. George, B. and Nedelea, A. (2008). Medical Tourism: The Next Big Thing to Come (September 8, 2008). Retrieved on 28 Dec 2008 from http://ssrn.com/abstract=1264925 George, B. and T. Henthome (2009). The Incorporation of Telemedicine with Medical Tourism. Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management 18(5)512-5-22. Global Advisory Services. (2004). Healing in Paradise: A Strategy for cultivating health and wellness tourism in Hawaii. Business Plan Report presented to the Hawaii Tourism Authority. Retrieved 2 Jan 2009 from http://www.hawaiitourismauthority.org/documents_upload_path/reports/HTAPRO-Report05-31-2004.pdf Gonzales, A., L. Brenzel, and J Sancho. (2001). Health Tourism and Related Services: Caribbean Development and International Trade. Retrieved 27 Jan 2010 from http://www.iadb.org/intal/intalcdi/PE/2009/03451.pdf Goodrich, J. (1994). Health Tourism: a new positioning strategy for tourist destinations. Journal of International Consumer Marketing. 6(3):227-238. Gopol, R. (2008). The Key Issues and Challenges in medical Tourism sector in India (A Hospital Perspective). Presented at the Conference on tourism in India-Challenges Ahead. Retrieved 20 Jan 09 from http://dspace.iimk.ac.in/bitstream/2259/575/1/331-+335+Dr.+R+Gopal.pdf Goodrich, J. (1993). Health-care tourism in the Caribbean in D. Gayle & J. Goodrich (eds.) Tourism marketing and management in the Caribbean. NY, NY: Routledge. P122-128. Gray, H. and S. Poland. (2008). Medical Tourism: Crossing borders to access health care. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 18(2):193-201. Greenberg, B. (2006). Have Ailment, Will Travel. The Los Angeles Daily News. 7 August 2006. Hamilton, J. (2007). Medical Tourism Creates Thai Doctor Shortage. Retrieved 8 March 2008 from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16735157 Hancock, D. (2006). The Complete Medical Tourist: Your guide to inexpensive dental cosmetic and medical surgery abroad. United Kingdom: John Blake. Handschin, A., A. Banic, and M. Constantinescu (2007). Pulmonary Embolism after Plastic Surgery Tourism. Clinical Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis. 13(3): 340. Hanson, F. (2008). A revolution in Healthcare: Medicine meets the marketplace. Public Affairs Review, 59:4.

Harvard Health Letter. (2008). Virtual hitchhiker's guide to the medical universe. Harvard Health Letter 33(12). http://www.health.harvard.edu/healthextra Hay, B. (2001). New tourism market: health and well being holidays. Countryside Tourism 9(2):14-16 Retrieved 7 Jan 09 from http://www.countrysiderecreation.org.uk/journal/pdf/summer%202001/5tourism.pdf Healism. (2008). Universal health care through medical tourism. Retrieved 26 May 2008 from http://www.healism.com/ Healthcare Financial Management Association. (2008). Explosive Growth in Medical Tourism and Rise of Retail Clinics Provide Cost Savings for Patients-and Challenges for Providers. Healthcare Financial Management, 62(9), 12,14. Retrieved January 13, 2009, from ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source database. (Document ID: 1562687951).
Healthcare Financial Management. (2009). Insurers pay for surgical procedures abroad. (Medical Tourism)(Brief article). Healthcare Financial Management 63.1 (Jan 2009): 12(1).

Henderson, J. (2004). Healthcare Tourism in Southeast Asia. Tourism Review International. 7(3-4):111121. Herman, L. (2009) 'Assessing international trade in health services', ECIPE Working Paper 03/2009. Retrieved 1 Feb 10 from http://www.ecipe.org/publications/ecipe-working-papers/assessinginternational-trade-in-healthcare-services/PDF Herrick, D. (2007). Medical Tourism: Global Competition in Health Care. National Center for Policy Analysis Retrieved from http://www.ncpa.org/pub/st/st304/. Hilts, P. (1992). Quality and low cost of medical care lure Americans to Mexican doctors. New York Times. Retrieved 18 July 2009 from http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/23/us/quality-and-low-cost-ofmedical-care-lure-americans-to-mexican-doctors.html Hutchinson, B. (2005). Medical Tourism Growing Worldwide, U Daily (University of Delaware), July 25, 2005. Retrieved 15 May 2008 from http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2005/mar/tourism072505.html. Huff-Rouselle, M, Shepherd, C., Cushman, R., Imrie, J. and Lalta, S. (1995). Prospects for Health Tourism Exports for the English-Speaking Caribbean. World Bank. Retrieved 2 Jan 2009 from http://www.ssds.net/ssds-products/health-tourism-rev1.doc Hoheb, c. (2008). The Link Between Spa and Medical Tourism. Les Nouvelles Esthetiques & Spa. December pp 131-134. Retrieved 26 October 09 from http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e426cf6b#/e426cf6b/1 Horowitz, M. D., and Rosensweig, J. A. (2007). Medical tourism - health care in the global economy. Physician Executive, 33(6):24.

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