Masoud Ferdosi, Alireza Jabbari, Mahmoud Keyvanara, Zahra Agharahimi
Health Management and Economic Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Management and Medical Information, Isfahan, Iran.
J Educ Health Promot. 2013 Sep 30;2:51. doi: 10.4103/2277-9531.119037. eCollection 2013.
Medical tourism for any study area is complex.
Using full articles from other databases, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), Science Direct, Emerald, Oxford, Magiran, and Scientific Information Database (SID), to examine systematically published articles about medical tourism in the interval 2000-2011 paid. Articles were obtained using descriptive statistics and content analysis categories were analyzed.
Among the 28 articles reviewed, 11 cases were a kind of research articles, three cases were case studies in Mexico, India, Hungary, Germany, and Iran, and 14 were case studies, review documents and data were passed. The main topics of study included the definition of medical tourism, medical tourists' motivation and development of medical tourism, ethical issues in medical tourism, and impact on health and medical tourism marketing.
The findings indicate the definition of medical tourism in various articles, and medical tourists are motivated. However, most studies indicate the benefits of medical tourism in developing countries and more developed countries reflect the consequences of medical tourism.
任何研究领域的医疗旅游都很复杂。
使用来自其他数据库（科学信息研究所（ISI）、科学Direct、Emerald、牛津、Magiran和科学信息数据库（SID））的全文文章，系统地审查2000 - 2011年间付费发表的有关医疗旅游的文章。通过描述性统计获取文章，并对内容分析类别进行分析。
在审查的28篇文章中，11篇是某种研究文章，3篇是墨西哥、印度、匈牙利、德国和伊朗的案例研究，14篇是案例研究、综述文件及数据传递。主要研究主题包括医疗旅游的定义、医疗游客的动机与医疗旅游的发展、医疗旅游中的伦理问题以及对健康和医疗旅游营销的影响。
研究结果表明了各文章中医疗旅游的定义以及医疗游客的动机。然而，大多数研究表明了医疗旅游在发展中国家的益处，而更发达国家则反映了医疗旅游的后果。
