Welche Rolle spielt die Gesundheitspolitik? Eine Analyse des Medizintourismus in Australien und Deutschland

Health tourism is a rather broad concept that spans from wellness tourism to medical tourism and destinations for that matter differ greatly in their specific health tourism characteristics from a supply but also a demand perspective. Focusing on medical tourism, it is proposed in this paper that th...

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Main Authors: Locher, C., Pforr, Christof
Format: Journal Article
Published: Germany 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43310
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Summary:Health tourism is a rather broad concept that spans from wellness tourism to medical tourism and destinations for that matter differ greatly in their specific health tourism characteristics from a supply but also a demand perspective. Focusing on medical tourism, it is proposed in this paper that these differences can, at least in parts, be explained by marked differences in a country's health card system. Two very different health tourism destinations, Germany and Australia, are presented to support this argument.