Medical Tourism Industry - Advantage India by C.B. Venkata Krishna Prasad

According to World health organization (WHO), a state of social, mental and physical well-being and the absence of disease is defined as a health (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2016a). The main aim of healthcare system is to provide health services to the people including permanent residents, tourists, temporary, citizens and students. The primary purpose of a healthcare system is to promote, maintain and re-establish health. The Healthcare system of a country includes emergency care, diagnosis of diseases, health advancement and maintenance, treatment of chronic and acute term diseases ( Health Education and Training Institute, n.d). In the past, doctors were not well trained and paid and the access to GP’s was not affordable

Globalization is changing the healthcare sector rapidly and radically through the circulation of medical goods and services. Therefore, the core of globalization is on basis of multilateral agreements between nations. However the very nature of globalization and the agreements between the developed country and developing and underdeveloped country means that the process benefits the former while the latter often loses or gets a meager trickle down from the benefits. For example in the case study it is established that due to the shortage of radiologists in America, radiologists are often expensive and take home a large paycheck of approximately $400,000. Outsourcing to Indian radiologists would not only reduce the workload of the American radiologists but also cut costs. Cost cutting would be achieved through cheaper professional fees for the Indian radiologist who gets approximately a tenth of what their American counterpart receives. This means that globalization in this sense benefits the American population and professionals, while the Indians lose.

The major problem, they have within the healthcare industry is the lack of government funding and the total expenditure on health per capita is $109, compared to the $7290 per capita in the United States. Healthcare consumes 4.9% of India’s GDP versus the 16% in the United States. The outcomes equal long lines, fewer facilities and inefficient staff. The supply of healthcare in India is on par with that in sub-Saharan African countries. According to the World Bank, 75% of all health expenditures is in the private sector, where 90% of healthcare costs are paid out-of-pocket.

Healthcare has seen a great improvement with Globalization. Physicians, nurses, and technicians will move to other countries to work (JHI staff, 2014). I have also seen many healthcare physicians take month long service trips to other countries. It is great to see that people are able to get the treatment they need locally.

According to Levaggi and Montefiori (2013, pp.100) globalisation is likely to have a significant impact on the population’s health and it creates challenges for the financing and provisions of the national health care system. The Office for National Statistics (2015) states

The sustainability of an average family in Nigeria is valued at less than 5 dollars a day. Notwithstanding the government’s preposition on the establishment of a health care system that is promotive, protective, preventive, restorative and rehabilitative to every citizen of the country within the available resources so that individuals and communities are assured of productivity, social well-being and enjoyment of living (F.M.H. 1988), the system, as is currently practiced is very inadequate in comparison to the Nigerian growing population and slow-paced economic development. According to the health manpower statistics, the ratio of the registered medical doctors as against the population’s need is put at 1:1,100 with modern medical facilities being administered in mega cities and little or none made available at the rural areas. As a result of lack of supervision or adequate provision for the essential needs of medical practitioners, doctors often times are faced with the conscientious decision to commute to the rural areas to administer Medicare on out-of-pocket expenses, which after a while becomes impossible to carry on. Thus the people in the rural area are left in the care of the traditional healer, who eventually cure their diseases with less charges than the bio-medical practice thereby saving the patients some money. The news of the efficacy of the traditional medical administration soon spreads to the urban cities and an

This includes debilitating diseases, Parkinson, Alzheimer, Leukemia, Down syndrome, muscular dystrophies, retinal degeneration, spinal cord injury, stroke, burns, heart disease, diabetes, osteo-arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, brain repair, skin for burn victims, and maybe even cancer and diabetes (stemcellnetwork.com).

The growing number of instances of health conditions that affect one area or country and the evidence that it will affect other countries is based on the idea of interdependence of the human community (Okpala 2014, p. 67). According to Okpala (2014) medical tourism is affecting the health care flow (p. 68). Medical tourism is the event when patients make the decision to seek medical treatment aboard; this process is driven by the consumer and is a

Whether it is the technology that allows us to peer deep into the body or medicines that extend the lives of those with chronic diseases, it is easy to see how advances in health and medicine have touched the lives of nearly every person on the planet. (Childs) In order to fully understand the effect technology has on society, we must know what technology means. Technology is simply the application of science in our daily lives.(Biggs) It’s using scientific research to supply our needs and resolve our problems. With this being said, technology has helped in many aspects of life, including the medical field.

There is concern regarding the cost of surgical treatment and costs associated with emergency, remedial and social care costs for patients Lunt & Mannion 2014). The health care services may be cheaper for the medical tourist based on the country of treatment. The benefits of human resource with exporting countries that utilize medical tourism, is the ability to attract health

India’s healthcare system can be a conundrum. Most of its 1.2 billion population go without proper healthcare. Only the wealthy can afford to visit private hospitals, stocked with the latest imaging and medical devices. Individual clinics provide cheap basic care and diagnoses, but refer patients to larger hubs for surgery and other complicated care needs. They have a huge demand for equipment and supplies yet spending remains small percentage of per capita spending. High tech high quality products are sought after by corporate groups. The latest 5 year plan from 2012-2017 proposes to expand healthcare by doubling public health spending by 6 % of the 2.5% GDP and plan to increase health coverage from 25%-75%. But since the government lacks infrastructure they are allowing private investors the opportunity, but these new implementations have been delayed by government drawbacks.

There may always be barriers when it comes to global health care. Some of the reasons that this may stay the way it is can be due to issues such as education, culture and poverty that can be the barriers in global health. When you put education, culture and poverty together it can be positive or negative. Depending on how you want to see it. There are always health care situations in both the developed and developing countries that may not always be the same for many reasons. In this paper, I will identify how education, culture and poverty act together to cause barriers in global health. I will identify the impact of education, culture and poverty when it comes to healthcare barriers and how the total can be greater than each individual factor. There will be two case studies on specific global health issues in developed countries as well developing countries and when the factors are combined what the similarities and differences are and finally we will address how the cultural and educational competencies can be used to address barriers.

Recently, there has been a large number of Americans flying to India for medical procedures. The practice of traveling abroad to receive both elective and non-elective medical procedures is called medical tourism (Steklof 722). The number of Americans who traveled overseas to receive medical treatment increased from 500,000 in 2005 to 750,000 in 2007 (Steklof 724). Many of these medical tourists are choosing to travel abroad due to rising healthcare costs and the difficulty to retrieve healthcare in a timely manner in his the United States (Maeghani 18).

Abstract: The current healthcare system across globe is heading in a way that, to maintain the health and vitality of human beings they have to address forces in both the natural and spiritual world. The traditional health care system and beliefs are grounded in cultural and religious practices of local communities. Historical circumstances, geography and demographics shape and inform the delivery of traditional healthcare systems. Modern healthcare systems are the result of a long evolution through trial and error and exchange of such information between diverse communities and regions. This process of exchange and gathering of information is still continued, today traditional medical practices are compelled to accommodate to the modern health care policies. The aim of this paper is to address on development of health care system to integrate the best of Indian traditional health care methods to meet the primary health care needs of contemporary society.

India 's touristry part is anticipated to develop at eight.8% earlier China 's over after ten years. with regards to WTTC, capital speculation of India 's touristry division is expected to the touch the $22.4 billion imprint in 2015. this might be concerning eight.1 for every penny of the full venture got by the nation in that year.