by Denise

Millions of individuals will travel to foreign destinations for medical or health care in 2010, a trend not limited to middle or upper class Americans, Britons, or Canadians. Medical tourism has become a stable method of health and wellness care, preventive medicine and affordable yet quality and safe treatment for individuals from countries in South Africa, South America, Central Europe and Southeast Asia.

Nearly six million Americans alone are estimated to seek international destinations for their medical care in the coming years, and locations in Croatia, Turkey, and Jordan (Jordan Hospital) are fast making a reputation for themselves in providing certified, JCI accredited, and world-class treatments, procedures and facilities for global travelers.

More facilities are applying for international accreditation by institutions such as WHO (World Health Organization), JCI (Joint Commissions International) and the Trent Accreditation Scheme, ensuring quality patient care, safety standards, and the latest in technological developments and techniques.

Orthopedic surgery, cardiac surgical techniques and procedures, obesity and bariatric surgeries and cosmetic and plastic surgical procedures are just a few of the healthcare options available to individuals around the world. Hip replacements, atrial-septal defect repair, gastric bypass and face lifts are just a few of the techniques available in locations around the world. The availability of cancer therapies, stem cell research, dental techniques and vision care has encouraged medical consumers from nearly all countries in the world to travel to foreign destinations for their medical needs.

Medical tourism is here to stay, and has fast become an affordable and logical resource for medical services in the 21st century.

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by Denise

Medical tourism, global medical care, international health and wellness, and personal choices in healthcare options are all terms that have become more prevalent in everyday speech of inhabitants from around the world. The growing popularity of global wellness and availability of medical care and services has prompted millions of individuals to travel beyond borders for their health care needs.

Medical tourism conferences are scheduled throughout 2010 to deal with medical tourism issues such as quality of service, patient care, disease treatments and protocols in multiple health fields including weight loss and obesity, cosmetic surgical procedures, orthopedics, cardiac care, chronic illness and disease processes, and stem cell research.

Medical conferences from the United States to Mumbai, India to Switzerland and Slovenia are expected to generate healthcare administrators, doctors, surgeons, pharmaceutical representatives and health insurance agents and representatives from around the globe.

For example, GLOW, the Asia Medical Tourism and Wellness Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in May 2010 focuses on the shift from consumer health markets for healthy balances between work and life trends and techniques regarding health and wellness, new approaches for the wellness industry and strategies for hospitals and medical providers to reach and market services around the globe.

The First Annual Medical Tourism Research Conference is scheduled to be held in San Antonio, Texas in January 2010, while the first Tourism-Contact-Culture Research Network Conference will be held in Lisbon, Portugal in September. 

The concept of traveling beyond borders for medical care has reached an all time high and is expected to continue to grow in the coming decade, increasing the need for health care providers to come together for the common good of all.

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by Denise

Medical tourism around the world is gaining attention. More countries are ensuring that services offered are certified and accredited by the United States as well as international accrediting organizations such as the JCI, and ISQA to ensure quality of care, the best in equipment and technology, and clean and state-of-the-art facilities and hospitals.

Medical travelers from the United States, Canada and other countries are traveling to Latin America for affordable medications, prescriptions, and treatments not available in the United States, including stem cell therapies and many alternative treatments that are nevertheless accepted and practiced around the world. The rising costs of healthcare and medical insurance in the United States is propelling more Americans, including Hispanics, to venture elsewhere for quality and experienced healthcare.

Facilities in Latin America offers treatment in a variety of fields including obesity, plastic and cosmetic surgery, stem cell research and development, dentistry, vision, an orthopedic care, among others. Medical tourism in Latin America offers some of the best doctors, surgeons and facilities in the world.

Dr. Omar Gonzalez of Integra Medical Center in Mexico offers cutting edge stem cell research and therapies. Ageless Wonders Panama, located in Panama City, Panama offers high tech cosmetic surgery, anti-aging and age management treatments, and Makeover Travel, located in Santa Cruz, Bolivia offers one of the most respected and famous medical tourism companies in the world.

PlacidWay, an international medical tourism portal based in Denver, Colorado offers consumers choices when it comes to their healthcare options. PlacidWay provides information regarding facilities, treatments, procedures, surgeons and physicians around the world who operate certified, respectable, reliable, and affordable medical care facilities.

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by Denise

Asian Medical tourism is growing exponentially in recent years, and is expected to blossom even more in the coming decade. Individuals from around the world, especially in the United States and Western Europe, disappointed and discouraged by healthcare options, rising healthcare costs, and long wait times, increasingly look beyond borders for excellent, qualified an accredited medical care.

The Asia Medical Tourism and Wellness Congress, most commonly known as GLOW, is meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in May 2010, to host an expo and congress on the personal wellness and medical tourism industry that focuses on facilities, providers, treatments, technologies and opportunities in Southeast Asia.

The GLOW 2010 Asia Medical Tourism and Wellness Congress will discuss, among other itinerary items, workplace wellness, medical tourism, spa and wellness facilities, treatments and procedures, among the fastest growing fields in the medical tourism industry. The focus is on health and wellness in the workplace or corporate environment that extends far beyond individual or market consumerism in locations throughout Southeast Asia, including popular medical tourism destinations such as Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Thailand, South Korea, in major metropolitan areas in Southeast China.

The GLOW exhibition will specifically target health care related industries hospitals, spa and wellness associations and operators, outbound tour operators, and international insurance providers.

Improving wellness programs in corporate environments, sustaining spa and wellness businesses during economic crisis as well as cost budgeting approaches to tracking medical tourism marketing activities are just a few of the topics that will be discussed at the upcoming conference.

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by Denise

These days, because of the economy and rising health care costs, more baby boomers than ever before are going to be venturing beyond domestic borders to obtain healthcare as well as medical treatments in the field of orthopedics, such as hip replacements, hip resurfacing, knee surgeries as well as anti-aging and age management procedures and techniques in cosmetic and plastic surgery.

Baby boomers are considered to be those who were born between 1946 and 1964. By 2011, many baby boomers will be reaching the age of 65, and increasing the percentage of the US population that 65 or older. Today, the population of individuals over 65 is roughly 17%, but in just a few years, that figure rises to 26%. According to research data, there’ll be 75 million baby boomers who need affordable medical care by the year 2010. These individuals will become the future of healthcare and growing trends toward health and wellness tourism for this group of individuals is on the rise.

Baby boomers, for the most part, are health conscious, educated, and aware of the potential possibilities of international medical care and aren’t afraid to ask questions or perform research on who can perform the best surgical procedures or offer quality treatments for affordable costs. These days, boomers, more than any other age demographic are carefully watching their money, and no one wants to have to choose between health care in groceries.

Affordable heart surgery, cancer treatment abroad, cosmetic surgery abroad, and health tourism abroad in fields such as dental, vision, cardiac and stem cell treatments are in demand. Locations such as Argentina, India, Thailand, Latin America and central Europe are growing more popular by the year. Boomers know this, and are acting on it.

The baby boomers are going to literally change the face of medical care in the very near future as the demand for excellence, quality and state-of-the-art technology, techniques and procedures increases.

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