Medical Tourism

Medical tourism is defined as travel primarily for the purpose of receiving health care. Medical tourists may travel for a variety of procedures, including novel or experimental treatments. Medical tourists may also travel to developing or developed countries. Medical tourism represents a growing health care market, and this group of travelers presents unique challenges for public health and clinical medicine. In addition to traditional travel health recommendations, medical tourists have unique health needs and should be advised accordingly. Some of these needs include ensuring current medical conditions are stable enough for travel and the need for appropriate follow-up care after procedures.

*The description was taken from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780323546966000392

Wellness tourism or travel is a travel associated with the pursuit of maintaining or enhancing one's personal wellbeing.

*THE GLOBAL WELLNESS TOURISM ECONOMY

Medical travel patient is defined as any individual who receives services from the medical travel (MT) program and for whom a patient record is created - including acceptance as a patient, evaluation and testing, second opinion and/or treatment, discharge and any indicated follow-up.

Such individuals may include those who travel to the destination medical travel program from another country or from within the same country, expats living in the area, tourists who require medical services, or others who for reasons of language or cultural competency choose the medical travel program for care.

*Global Healthcare Accreditation