Egypt aims to establish first integrated city for Alzheimer’s patients
The proposed city in Fayoum, 62 miles south of Cairo, adopts the principle of comprehensive, long-term care, psychologically, socially, environmentally, and medically. It will...
Private healthcare threat to Canada’s outbound medical tourism
The quiet development of private healthcare in Canada will eventually reduce outbound medical tourism, says medical travel analyst Ian Youngman.
For decades, national and provincial...
A recovery in outbound medical tourism from the UK?
What do the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest about the United Kingdom's outbound medical tourism numbers? And how reliable is...
Treatment Abroad have introduced a new code of practice for healthcare providers
At Treatment Abroad, we have introduced the first medical tourism code of practice for healthcare providers. The "Code of Practice for Medical Tourism" aims...
Is medical tourism the solution?
A recent article from McKinsey International highlights the magnitude of the challenge that leaders of governments in the developed countries are going to have...
Medical travel agencies and facilitators – survival of the fittest?
The advent of the pandemic and its impact on travel has hit businesses involved in travel and tourism more than any other sector. In...
A discussion on the legal ramification of medical tourism in the USA
I. Glenn Cohen, Assistant Professor at Harvard Law School, and Gregory W. Moore, leader of the healthcare practice group at the US law firm...
The role of governments in developing health tourism
In his Second Opinion column, Dr Constantine Constantinides from healthCare cybernetics looks at the differences between the roles of the state and governments in developing health...
Is the medical tourism sector prepared?
Tourism is more resilient than ever according to research by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) and Global Rescue published at the end of 2019,...
Medical tourism statistics: Comparing apples with apples ….
At Treatment Abroad, we’ve recently completed some research into the medical tourism market for a third party. It’s been an interesting exercise and has...
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