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BACKGROUND
• Based on a long waiting list and high and
elective medical care costs in the origin
country especially those from developed
countries, increasingly makes people seek
treatment across national boundaries.
• Coupled with the ease of travel between
countries and a revival in health awareness
and health care expectations, cross-border
travel for medical care has spawned rise to
medical tourism as industrial growth in many
countries.

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GOALS

The objective of this review is to perform a

literature review of health and medical
tourism, to define health and medical
tourism based on the medical literature and
to estima te the size of trade in healthcare
and also , including the further development
of reliable and comparable da ta, the push
and pull factors for engaging in health and
medical tourism, and the impact of health
tourism but, more so, medical tourism on
local healthcare systems.

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METHOD
• This literature combines 149 reviews
obtained from the excluded medline
data results, with 229 abstract reviews

• analysis in this literature uses Ogden–

Richard ’s model indicates that they
are not identical, but rather related
concepts.

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RESULT
• Three factors are crucial in identifying
health tourism is the geographical
setting, the consumption of a health
related intervention and the
structural facility where the
intervention is availed

• In 2005 around 617 million people

are engaged in health tourism

• Eropa, Asia-Pacific, Edging America,

The Middle East and Africa as the top
destination of Health and Medical
around 2005.
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HEALTH TOURISM OPPORTUNITIES IN INDONESIA

Health tourism is a relatively new concept in Indonesia and the idea is still often confused or used
interchangeably with medical tourism or health tourism.

One of Health tourism opportunities in Indonesia is Spa. Spa rooted deeply in the Indonesian
tradition. It has evolved from a mixture of the Hindu, Buddhism, and Muslim cultures over
thousands of years. Bali has become a leader in luxury spa tourism in Asia and is home to more
than 20 of the world’s best spas. Spas are starting to grow in some larger cities like Jakarta,
Surabaya, Bandung.

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 REFERENCES
Carrera, P. M. and Bridges, J. F. P. (2006) ‘Globalization and healthcare :
understanding health and medical tourism’, pp. 447–454.
Kurniawan, L. L. (2018) ‘Promoting Indonesia as a Wellness Tourism Destination’,
2018, pp. 250–260. doi: 10.18502/kss.v3i10.3378.

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