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- Title
MEDICAL TOURISM: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO FERTILITY TOURISM.
- Authors
Sanghavi, Twinkle
- Abstract
The current paper makes an attempt to review the Indian scenario with regards to Medical tourism. It first explains how tourism has now moved away from its traditional meaning of holidaying and now includes holidays with medical care. The advances in technological shifts allows for patient mobility and the rapid advances in obtaining information from across the world through the internet helps individuals make better decisions regarding health care. The paper emphasizes the role of fertility tourism and describes how these health care travel programmes are packaged. It concludes with the roles of government, health care industry and travel industry in promoting fertility tourism.
- Subjects
MEDICAL tourism; HUMAN fertility
- Publication
Research Horizons, 2017, Vol 7, p171
- ISSN
2229-385X
- Publication type
Article