Medical Tourism: Indian and Global Perspectives

Medical Tourism: Indian and Global Perspectives PDF Author: Manjeet Singh
Publisher: BFC Publications
ISBN: 9355094930
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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Book Description
This book mainly focuses on History and profile of the medical tourists visited India. The profile includes sex, age, occupation, type of treatment underwent, accompany details etc. The facilities and services offered by Indian hospitals like type of treatment offered, hospitals experience, accommodation detail, hospitality care, patient care, hospital accreditation, Medical human resource detail and activities of medical tourism department are provided. The average cost of various medical treatments in India has collected through a research and it was compared with the cost of treatment with Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, UK, USA, Canada. The percentage savings made by taking treatment in India also highlighted. The health care crisis in United States of America, Branding Inbound International Medical Tourism and Institutional role in promoting medical tourism in India also included in this book. To understand the perception of the inbound international patients about the services and facilities provided in the hospitals, a research was conducted, and the outcome of the research is presented. Based on the findings of the research, suggestions are provided for better development of medical tourism in India. The details of book will be highly useful for the students pursuing hospital and medical tourism education, and tourism researchers in academic institutions, medical tourism planners and strategic managers in Hospitals dealing international patients.