Mumtaz Nazia, Saqulain Ghulam
Nazia Mumtaz, PhD (Rehabilitation Sciences) Head of Department & Professor, Department of Speech Language Pathology, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Riphah International University, Lahore, Pakistan.
Ghulam Saqulain, FCPS (Otorhinolaryngology) Head of Department & Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Capital Hospital PGMI, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Pak J Med Sci. 2024 Dec;40(11):2720-2725. doi: 10.12669/pjms.40.11.8673.
Medical and health care traverse geographical boundaries in the form of "Medical Tourism" with patients travelling from low and middle-income countries to developed nations and vice versa as well. Affordable medical care is also attracting patients from developed nations to countries like India, Thailand, UAE and others with international accreditation playing a key role. This also yields economic benefits for the recipient countries. Pakistan unfortunately lags behind in acquiring "destination of choice" status for medical tourism which undisputedly can benefit its constrained economy. There being a dearth of literature current narrative review was conducted to highlight the integrity and benefits of medical tourism. For this, literature search was conducted using google, Bing, google scholar, PubMed, web of science to search engines and data bases. One hundred eighty articles, reports & publications were downloaded of which 25 non-English & duplicates, and 75 irrelevant records were excluded. Hence, 34 references of relevant English language articles, publications, reports and online resources were utilized for the review.
医疗保健以“医疗旅游”的形式跨越地理边界，患者从中低收入国家前往发达国家，反之亦然。负担得起的医疗服务也吸引着发达国家的患者前往印度、泰国、阿联酋等国家，国际认证在其中发挥着关键作用。这也为接待国带来了经济效益。不幸的是，巴基斯坦在获得医疗旅游“首选目的地”地位方面落后，而这无疑可以使其经济受限的状况受益。由于缺乏相关文献，进行了本次叙述性综述以突出医疗旅游的完整性和益处。为此，使用谷歌、必应、谷歌学术、PubMed、科学网等搜索引擎和数据库进行了文献检索。下载了180篇文章、报告和出版物，其中排除了25篇非英文及重复的，以及75篇不相关的记录。因此，本次综述使用了34篇相关英文文章、出版物、报告和在线资源的参考文献。
