In the absence of official, medical directives and within the prevailing framework of medical tourism as a customer's prerogative, the presentation to Australian media audiences of any hazards arising from the practice was a combination of anecdotal, patient evidence and a healthy dose of 'buyer beware'.
This paper presents a conceptual framework of medical tourism and policy implications for health systems in Southeast Asia, drawing on the cases of Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia, via an extensive review of the academic and grey literature, as well as insights from health consultancies in the public and private sectors across the region.
This paper addresses the French Alps as a historically significant landscape for the Tour de France and presents an empirical exploration of Cohen and Cohen's (2012) theoretical framework of authentication in tourism.
The ISTI framework uncovers the indirect costs of tourism development and reveals to local authorities how to avoid growth without adequate recompense for supporting sustainable infrastructure in host countries.
It introduces advances such as strategic positioning, symbiotic partnerships, and innovative management, and closes by presenting governance frameworks for an inclusive and sustainable future of tourism.
Other studies have proposed indicators for sustainable management of visitor use of protected areas (Tonge and others 2005) or a framework for developing social and socioeconomic indicators for measuring the impact of tourism on communities (Deery and others 2005).
Specifically, we apply Pocock and Phua's previously-published conceptual framework of policy implications raised by medical tourism to explore its relevance in this new context and to identify additional considerations raised by the Jamaican context.
Using a categorization scheme adapted from Pocock and Phua's framework of policy implications emerging from medical tourism, the plans, issues, and actors referred to across the full dataset were organized into their respective domains (governance, financing, delivery, regulation, health human resources) by the first author.
