My Medical Travel Guide

Medical Travel (also called medical tourism, health tourism or global healthcare) is a term that describes the rapidly growing practice of traveling across international borders to undergo surgical operations and/or obtain related healthcare services. Factors that have led to the increasing popularity of medical travel include the high cost of healthcare in developed countries, long wait times for certain procedures, the ease and affordability of international travel, and improvements in both technology and standards of care in many countries overseas. Even with travel costs such as air fare, travel insurance, accommodations, insurance and car rental, medical travels can be substantially more affordable than domestic healthcare. (In addition to eliminating long wait periods). Medical travel has been growing rapidly over recent years as more and more people seek faster and cheaper alternatives to the healthcare offered in their own countries.