Benefits of medical travel and global healthcare
Medical tourism (also called 'global health care', medical travel or health tourism) is a term first coined by travel agencies and mass media to describe the practice of fast-growing travel across international borders for medical treatment.
A medical tourist comes from the US/Russia mostly, to other part of the world - they come for Asthma/Psoriasis problems to the Israeli Dead sea, or for a quick cheap trip to Mexico, getting dental, mental and surgical treatment in a relaxing professional atmosphere.
Global healthcare / Medical travel also refers pejoratively to the practice of healthcare providers in the world, to provide travel health. Services typically sought by travelers include selection procedures, as well as complex specialized surgeries such as joint replacement (knee / hip), cardiac surgery, dental surgery, cosmetic surgery and more.
Almost any kind of medical care, including psychiatry, alternative treatments, convalescent care and burial services are available. There are over 50 countries which identified medical tourism as a national industry.
However, accreditation and other measures of quality vary widely throughout the world, to certain destinations may be hazardous or even dangerous for medical tourists.
Greater numbers than ever before of student volunteers, health professions students, researchers from resource-rich countries are expected to work in starved areas in the future, as part of inernationl global healthcare.
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