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

Locher Connie () and Pforr Christof ()
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Locher Connie: School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Western Australia
Pforr Christof: School of Marketing, Curtin University, Perth WA, 6845, Australia

Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft, 2015, vol. 7, issue 1, 19-34

Abstract: 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 care system. Two very different health tourism destinations, Germany and Australia, are presented to support this argument.

Keywords: Healthcare system; medical tourism; Germany; Australia; health tourism; Gesundheitssystem; Medizintourismus; Deutschland; Australien; Gesundheitstourismus; Healthcare system; medical tourism; Germany; Australia; health tourism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1515/tw-2015-0104

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